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To the Ends of the Earth ()

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  • 1h 29min
  • Drama
  • TV Mini Series
Season: 1 Year: 2005
In 1812, young British aristocrat Edmund Talbot travels by ship to Australia, and learns more about himself and about life than he had ever bargained for.
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  Edmund Talbot (3 episodes, 2005)
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  Captain Anderson (3 episodes, 2005)
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  1st Lieutenant Summers (3 episodes, 2005)
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  Mr. Brocklebank (3 episodes, 2005)
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  Miss Granham (3 episodes, 2005)
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  Mr. Pike (3 episodes, 2005)
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  Mr. Bowles (3 episodes, 2005)
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  Mrs. Pike (3 episodes, 2005)
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  Mr. Prettiman (3 episodes, 2005)
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  Lieutenant Cumbersham (3 episodes, 2005)
Chris Walker ...
  Oldmeadow (3 episodes, 2005)
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  Mrs. Brocklebank (3 episodes, 2005)
Paula Jennings ...
  Zenobia (3 episodes, 2005)
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  Wheeler (3 episodes, 2005)
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  Askew (3 episodes, 2005)
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  Parson Colley (3 episodes, 2005)
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  Bates (3 episodes, 2005)
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  Willis (3 episodes, 2005)
Adam Woolf ...
  Phillips (3 episodes, 2005)
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  Smiles (3 episodes, 2005)
Kirsty Motzouris ...
  Phoebe Pike (3 episodes, 2005)
Kelly Motzouris ...
  Annibel Pike (3 episodes, 2005)
Daniel Newman ...
  Gibbs (3 episodes, 2005)
Danelle Drury ...
  Mrs. East (3 episodes, 2005)
Damon Berry ...
  Mr. East (3 episodes, 2005)
Lionel Newton ...
  Jones (3 episodes, 2005)
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  Lieutenant Deverel (2 episodes, 2005)
Niall Macgregor ...
  Lieutenant Benét (2 episodes, 2005)
James Gracie ...
  Billy Rogers (2 episodes, 2005)
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  Marion Chumley (2 episodes, 2005)
Adrian Waldron ...
  Coombes (1 episode, 2005)
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  Sir Henry Somerset (1 episode, 2005)
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  Lady Somerset (1 episode, 2005)
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  Markham (1 episode, 2005)
David Black ...
  Captain Phillip (1 episode, 2005)

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In the early 1800s young Edmund Talbot travels on a not too sea-worthy ship to New South Wales to take up a post with its governor. He keeps a journal, recording his impressions of crew and passengers. He gets on well with the Captain, Anderson, an amateur botanist who grows plants in his cabin, but, due to a social gaffe, well-meaning young parson Colley falls foul of the captain, later getting drunk and having gay sex with crew members. Despite Edmund's efforts to broker an understanding he remains in his cabin, where he literally wastes away. Edmund has a sexual encounter with the comely Zenobia, travelling with her parents, but he comes to realize that they are not related at all, merely a sexual threesome. Miss Granham, travelling to take up the job of a governess, falls for the older Mr. Prettiman, whom Edmund despises as a free-thinker, though they eventually reconcile. Prettiman is badly injured in a fall and Miss Granham agrees to marry him immediately, with flowers provided by the captain, and he recovers. Wheeler, Edmund's steward, is less fortunate. He is thrown overboard as a Jonah, and, although he survives, it is all too much for him. A broken mast leaves the ship drifting dangerously towards an ice-field but the scientifically-minded Lieutenant Benet mends it in time. Arriving in Australia, Edmund's friend Lieutenant Summers is given his own ship but dies when it catches fire. Edmund is re-united with the lovely Marian, who has been travelling on another vessel, the' Alcyone,' which met up with Edmund's ship in mid-ocean and he was instantly smitten by her. He has come 'to the ends of the Earth' and, unlike several of his fellow travellers, found contentment. Written by don @ minifie-1

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Also Known As
  • To the Ends of the Earth: Close Quarters (United Kingdom)
  • To the Ends of the Earth: Fire Down Below (United Kingdom)
  • To the Ends of the Earth: Rites of Passage (United Kingdom)
  • Viaje a los confines de la tierra (United States, Spanish title)
  • Viaje a los confines de la Tierra (Spain)
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  • 89 min
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Trivia Benedict Cumberbatch, Denise Black and Theo Lande were robbed and kidnapped while filming in South Africa. They were on their way back from scuba diving when they had a flat tire on an isolated dirt road. An armed gang of six men came upon them, took their money, credit cards and mobile phones, frisked them for anything else of value, then put them into their car and drove away with them. Eventually, they stopped and forced Cumberbatch into the trunk of the car, but he began telling them that he had a heart and brain problem and might die in the small space, and they would get into a great deal of trouble if found with a dead Englishman. Following an argument among the kidnappers, he was taken out. After stopping under a bridge, the actors were made to get out and crouch, and after a few terrifying minutes, they realized their assailants had fled the scene. See more »
Goofs At the end of the series when Edmund is on the dock looking out at the small boats, the same slender blond girl wearing a tan blouse passes behind him twice, from left to right, in a few seconds. See more »
Soundtracks Lord, Whom Winds and Waves Obey See more »
Quotes [repeated line]
Edmund Talbot: Good God!
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