Man Alive

Goodbye to All That (1974x25)

Air date: Aug 07, 1974

When 27-year-old Alexa Scott-Plummer's father died in a hunting accident leaving to his only daughter a Scottish baronial mansion and 1,000 acres of land, there was a problem: Alexa preferred living in London. So Sunderland Hall was put up for sale. The asking price: half a million pounds. A buyer was found, so Alexa's mother and grandmother must leave the Hall. And the servants, and the farm manager, and the groom; and the shepherd and the tractor driver - all now stand to lose their jobs and their homes. For a whole happily feudal community it is an end to a 300-year-old way of life.