All the Rivers Run (1983)

7.6 (9 votes)

1 Season

October 4, 1983

English

Drama

Synopsis

Orphaned after a shipwreck off the Victorian coast of Australia, the spirited Philadelphia Gordon finds both love and adventure aboard a paddle-steamer on the Murray River.

Creator

Hector Crawford, Ian Crawford, Terry Stapleton

Network

Seven Network

Episodes

Part 1

Oct 4, 1983

120 min

In a storm off the Victorian coast in 1892, a young English girl is shipwrecked and orphaned. She is rescued heroically by the only other survivor of the wreck.

Part 2

Oct 11, 1983

120 min

Tom Critchley, the seaman who rescued Delie, arrives in Echuca on a paddle steamer he bought with his reward. It is the beginning for Delie of a remarkable ten years in her life.

Part 3

Oct 18, 1983

120 min

Delie quickly attracts the attention of the town gossips, living alone in a ladies boarding house. She is trying hard to ignore riverboat labourer Brenton Edwards who is working even harder to draw her attention.

Part 4

Oct 25, 1983

120 min

Tom finalises the deal which puts Delie and Teddy into partnership as the new owners of the Philadelphia before departing for a new ship sailing the high seas.