Cyril Abraham of Onedin short stories by Abraham, set between Series Two and Series Three, appeared in "Woman" magazine in 1973. Abraham had intended to write a whole series of novels about the Onedin Line, but he died in 1979 after completing the fifth book, "The White Ships". The saga was eventually to have seen James and Elizabeth Onedin as two elderly autocrats, both determined not to relinquish their hold on the shipping business. Elizabeth Onedin would have still been a formidable woman in her 90s, while James Onedin would have died aged 102, leaving the family divided over control of the
The Regiment (TV series) while the second series in 1973 followed the regiment on a posting to British India. It once received a brief review in the "Glasgow Weekly News" "The Regiment: ought to be disbanded". The theme music to the series was the finale of the Triumphal March from "Caractacus" by Sir Edward Elgar. The Regiment (TV series) The Regiment was a British television drama series produced by the BBC. First broadcast on BBC One in 1972 it starred Christopher Cazenove and followed the story of a British Army regiment from the view of two families. "The Regiment" was based on a single