Posted on 03/27/2026 8:16:03 PM PDT by Jonty30
What I remember about it is that it is approximately a Victorian era movie or miniseries. The show aired anywhere from the late 70's to late 80's.
In the show, it involves an older sister or single mother and two younger children who are taken in by a compassionate wealthy young gentleman, possibly an aristocrat. He tries to raise the children to be fit for his level of society, but the young man becomes resentful of him and ends up stabbing him in the leg when the young man reveals that he is now broke because of bad investments.
I don't know what happened to the girl child, but the young man choose to take a life of hard labour. He even signed his name as an X, even though a minor character remarked because he knew the young man that, "he could read and write' to imply that he could have worked himself into a white collar working position instead of choosing to be a labourer..
It's been bugging me, so I want to lay it rest by finding the title. I've already used the AI's, iwthout much success.
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Spoiler Alert! Nobody likes it when you reveal the ending early.
Was that from the KamalaAI chat bot?
It sounds gay.
Rich Man Poor Man
“The Secret Garden” has all that plot except for the leg stabbing IIRC.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041855/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_5_tt_8_nm_0_in_0_q_The%20secret%20garden
I once heard a woman describe the film version of The Hitchhiker's Guild to the Galaxy as about a man with a magic ring.
Sometimes people find incidental plot points to be more important than they are. You may be remembering it wrongly or giving plot points more significance than they were do.
Anyway, good luck finding it.
Unfortunately, I probably wont be able to find it, unless I watch all these Victorian miniseries or movies, because Canada, Britain, and Australian all produced dozens of them, because they were very popular in their day.
I’m 82.....
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