راس پولدارک تصمیم میگیرد برای اینکه به جرم قاچاق محاکمه نشود، دختر مورد علاقه اش الیزابت را ترک میکند و به ارتش ملحق شود. وقتی 3 سال بعد به خانه بر میگردد متوجه میشود که پدرش مُرده، خانه بزرگ آنها ویران شده، ثروتشان از دست رفته و معشوقه اش به نامزدی پسر عمویش در آمده است. او در راه برگشت به خانه دختری را از کتک خوردن نجات میدهد و او را به عنوان خدمتکار آشپزخانه استخدام میکند، اما همشهری‌هایش از برگشتن بچه پولدار شهرشان که قصد پس گرفتن موقعیتش اجتماعیش را دارد زیاد راضی نیستند و همین باعث ایجاد بر خوردهایی بین آنها و راس میشود که عواقب ناخوشایندی را برای وی در پی دارد...
Episode #1.1
Ross Poldark returns from fighting in the American Revolution to his native Cornwall, finding his fiancée Elizabeth Chynoweth about to marry his wealthy cousin Francis and his home in ruins...
Episode #1.2
Ross decides to reopen the family copper mine Wheal Leisure and persuades Francis to help him. Ross also escorts Francis's put-upon sister Verity to a dance, where he crosses swords with ...
Episode #1.3
Ross reopens Wheal Leisure, drawing his work force from Charles' mine and winning the respect of his tenants. Whilst he and Demelza are at a local wedding Elizabeth gives birth to a son, ...
Episode #1.4
The news of Demelza and Poldark's marriage spreads through the community, threatening Wheal Leisure's prospects.
Episode #1.5
Wedding bells ring as miner Mark Daniel marries visiting actress Keren Smith whilst Demelza and Ross have their own celebration as their daughter Julia is born, Ross not allowing Demelza's ...
Episode #1.6
Whilst Ross's cooperative has some success there are hard times throughout Cornwall and typhoid sweeps through Bodmin jail and kills Jim Carter just as Ross and Dwight break in to rescue ...
Episode #1.7
Francis wrongly blames Ross for helping Verity elope with Andrew Blamey. Meanwhile, Mark suspects Dwight and Keren of having an affair, starting chain of events which will have tragic ...
Episode #1.8
Ross faces ruin as, along with the rest of his collective, he must sell to the Warleggans' company at a nominal price. At the same time the disease known as putrid throat sweeps through the...
