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as governor meaning in the morning to write this i'm not sure that i do and the dresses guys and get a little colors goes over a lot of both really needed to get to a political deal mr nelson i don't remember you construct a handkerchief to
pay i don't know that you're going back to work with these adolescent of it mean when you're talking i'm sure are no he and it might as mystical associates says gas know we'll work here and you are going to believe said this is not someone to choose the coaches and scouts didn't think about that quite frankly mr mccants of the candidates is
more fraught and make us about to be a social butterfly on a park bench on a comet so you never you know you fly straight for things like clear whether that everyone saw that he says and he's here that a woman must possess the soul of some americans and their bodies disintegrate if you think it's too well i have to agree with him with us in a way i think it is many women around these days pete and so the content with other people's bodies are you one of the as and as i could become one five six than two percent say no because i think you and want to love and to be loved
the sense that you sent to me seems to have to you you think there's russian citizens i can see just what you see you see it i guess it's true it is a nice you know it's a new teammate what about i'm going to tell you been driving with me one on his uneasy about do you think he will be done for me i think it's unfair and i was cynical and
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entries and bridges is going right at the beginning fifteen hundred and eighty longtime two were together computers for his city setting it quite enjoy the task now there's another gary indiana born in sixty eight he evidently the father felt he was so judge walton from seventeen fifteen described as human of haze and he made the effort a lot of the a and b it i'll go home whether their children says the list of that including leland be untruthful disease i will certainly what time what would you consider a reasonable and an n o o sound groceries sometimes they can be generous there's a few
months before fried great the effected four acres near the sea mother was ruined house and then the idea is that they took the stand the way in the world to guide people through the region but i didn't ever occur with latino men out of it i knew it manet so you leave at over as more what i thought about that voted today show on it doesn't begin again she's fourteen and not because typically for my mind and this is not just about the job that we see
out of the fact that no dear own images you and then doesn't meet here until further west which of the children no we have an opportunity you know you couldn't get a job please don't write the poem ms bee
to pay the us has a unique thing to continue reform fight with death and in
it ah ahh high we see a new movie called we were trespassing at how he just very forcefully said shots even we flee oh
i see that seventy three uses dooley has now is looking back for a few seconds in this case is that's what i think he has a thing he says
it's not enough to say he was covering we do things as
you know very well for the authorities to just want to say cats are constantly need is to lose my own thing you
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to pause button is big and it's a sad state and now you see why some interview with cw <unk> hearing yesterday christina monique sound sensible center that serve those with the best ideas so something no no no nothing at all i think the path is better yes
but the point he says this was just a job i didn't like it and i will fix it likely important i see what plants and the doping dent family to sign death off you got it
the police blotter i was in tokyo yesterday he's general has gotten no johns in london last night in the country tensions do you want to come home and believes it has to and doesn't knock i can't help but don't you think she might guess i didn't have no idea if she is going to be despised i can ask you to look at the future so yeah and
john hasn't decided anything it was when he does he sticks to it in the movie and you know that a vote for you arranged in your own mind in a secret love affair into it with great actor to do anything john would agree to that transpire decent john living with two women and they want you to play but i have no no home no education no position no one i don't most of the light hurt him deeply it is nothing compared to what you will make himself to you know not to say that how do you know all my father was for me is to be happy and i shall be inspired to be without all those things you
guys so much including us you know there's a divorce the mouse will claim him i didn't come here to you or to fit it to say the future of all the sacrifices you have to make them why is everybody talking about the future we know about the future of the future doesn't matter anyway that's maybe if you define it as a lot of people think the world they were things that without kicking and screaming but one thing's certain look at whatever happiness we can was was too young and alive and if that doesn't work the face that do that as beast is back
in that case and i must tell you something we really has been at omaha nina has been in egypt as big as we are all right so she's not really generated
wide not know she had not sent a new message does the compost in this week's agenda ms barrow so there's been
this morning so i was doing the same i don't know what possessed of that income know what she was i got on the ways that you've been quite a us citizen to you think what is possible in rio there were firms got to do something about it over the weekend i want a book tour of expected something like this people will
be finished ocean i came up with how it's simply cannot tell you the moment i think you should hear what i have to say or hear nothing from us but by the pope resigning but you know it serves as a matter of i don't know john welcome to day of what however say this because it's ridiculous or the solution
to a jury i suppose i was too emotional step up to get it that he was instantly will be a future to happen or does the only thing that matters so you're back and so graham is another with the local poet langston hughes studio and you have
to go there go miles and i'm thinking i'm john i'm gonna have a chair and yes i can tell you before because i wanted to shoot no wait a minute something's happened between you and play everything's happened hasn't yesterday less night no don't don't explain about seventy different view he's kept it to myself to his committee yesterday but you didn't come home to mother told me
i'm like no flow was determined dead here she'd gone on initiated did me so long endured but today up there and done talking to us i know my own mind you know my wife and the wife i want christians can forgive me i just don't know love has the
most to prove critical to pay it's all right well he was fired by waging know what particular slums he came from that region and there will solve that a sudden automatic does it matter the best of public alert the slums yes indeed remarkable in its way but that's the advantage you know of keeping open house to the rest of the world benefits accrue think it's really i will and you think of karl marx was the unbeatable prophet of the unspeakable no thank you sir pew went out the fund really has been on for hillary and others ones street in one city
lie detector note the system does not like you can't keep cool to be taken at first it was something else undermined know of course well enough to get us out to remember michel for cycling sort of grinds on one charges quite taken with it hughes dated may come to express himself but there's no humbug them an honest man i think that's what the summit and he's generous and talk they wouldn't want to be suspected of so it was the republicans i would pick up
and oh yes can you get the balking sixties know talking to the depression no no no oh it's you are against a monster never senators so it's an easy waking to go to do we pick wilson oh yes yes of course i will say so she went out in this
morning's br yes this is something you want to tell these are either going to affect how much you know whether go oh and fire pretty well i think oh you know as you mentioned took us and to a woman or a reason to believe that she never completely got over and the reason that you know i fold my opinion is just with dots and say say anything but that i can wait a nazi or not wealthy about omaha is everything against its original flipside of
that is both sides is a sentiment everything depends on educating and i will continue my bedside ago this time what i focused on the piece she has a strong affection for me that sense of a competitive advantage in a report on a little bit of experience or this business of those it adds the verses of these revisions she was was a spoiler charge of movie she gets something to do it there's nothing at the cuff either a dancer and they don't go nowhere oh i met so that the most overt ask well she looked at him the chianti and my co counsel was his wife detected something he could have found
another to me they're going to be voted for skelton for auctions you know don't you see it's no good at putting things off it was due to a finish one way or another it's a new me to travel halfway through just address is yes let's go right in a lot of the white washed assam yes yes he's speaking to know or had a sense of a sense of i don't know what i'm going to make them confident oh oh no it doesn't sound as if you could
come over thank you know i mean you're excused i know that church was just a simple song ocean near those goes we should feel pain to me and why should they have nothing and i had everything i think about the pictures
as you know they're going to the mission is a cyclist chris but with this case with a modest emission and the nine jurors agreed to critical rest of which are your favorites and caro or constable stephenson actor tourism in egypt in the private fb if
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can conquer things thank you the pump are indians today
is third to miss another that i came down to pick with poor mrs dudley read and i don't know what she's going to do with if this describes you say that was to grab such a comfort to see you know the oldest friend we have been shipped to mrs duffy energy it won't get better they say there's no oh oh good reviews a conscious didn't think he ever will be again whether we we must look on the bright side it's just so there's no wage to speak of and it's not as though he drank preps to you paul ryan is the only one in
history is visas for senate but she has been sent for of course comparison of the various you know i was wondering whether mrs i read a mission might care to send a message that the bygones well by god and i don't know where you know this notion like him to go with anything on his conscience on her conscience case of forgiving you never know he wanted to talk to him to about his two shows that the novel about it and i'm your father was spared this stage in support of it but to both with the same love was just so much that sentence and teens to that i'm sure you've got some of the region said curiouser is
so good rendition good i think his father lived to be ninety eight mr sauvageau was so careful i must pass unless it insisted yes but once i got to pass bits begin to change this it's
been the plan to pay down the potential injury this week you know one of the problems of doing that can use it i was never so beautiful i didn't want to cause if he does
there's no better way to die saving the one you love most no you mustn't grief two years it's been suspicions but the pay is bs you seen now thought that his mother would be pleased to happen here so we drove over
on friday we got an apology some going to ask us well perhaps this is the time i must know what happened between your brother i know what was in the past is there anything now my asking for her sick whatever you say would have been a party that has been something it's like over for good it ended the day of the fire what makes you say it's over for good assignment joe is promised and never to see floated a month strong this is worth nothing nothing will make you go back it's over michael and
clare no state you know so i'd probably go back to my work and i know i was playing second fiddle to patients didn't highlight the pittsburgh sometimes remembered so common that but we can't we can't you know it's fair to me down
i'm going to get when i am at work or give me get tricky but i do love to love so i'll be good this big tax break because bonobos but when freedom
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Series
The Forsyte Saga
Episode Number
26
Episode
Swan Song
Producing Organization
British Broadcasting Corporation
WGBH Educational Foundation
Contributing Organization
Thirteen WNET (New York, New York)
WGBH (Boston, Massachusetts)
Library of Congress (Washington, District of Columbia)
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Description
Episode Description
An act of infidelity and a tragic fire bring "The Forsyte Saga" to an end. In the final episode, Jon's presence in London reunites him with Fleur, and the two former lovers, whose affair was destroyed by the long-standing Forsyte family schism, find themselves along a country road. Fleur has little trouble seducing her weak-willed cousin, but afterwards Jon immediately reunites with his wife. In the depths of despondency, Fleur paces her father's picture gallery that night and carelessly leaves a smoldering cigarette there. Soames awakens to the smell of smoke, apparently in time to avert a tragedy, but an ironic turn of events is still to come. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
Series Description
This television series dramatizes the series of books, The Forsyte Saga, written by John Galsworthy. The music is from a composition titled Three Elizabeths Suite by Eric Coates (1886-1957) which has been recorded by the London Pops Orchestra on the Mercury label, LP 90439. Airing after each episode is a series of filler segments titled Behind the Scenes, which generally run about seven minutes. They feature conversations between NET President James Day and persons associated with the production of The Forsyte Saga, including in some cases the performers. The series consist of 26 hour-long episodes that were originally recorded in black and white.
Broadcast Date
1970-03-29
Asset type
Episode
Genres
Drama
Media type
Moving Image
Duration
01:01:00
Credits
Actor: Bailey, John
Actor: Bennett, John
Actor: Phillips, John
Actor: Dinam, Basil
Actor: Alexander, Terrance
Actor: Jarvis, Martin
Actor: Benjamin, Christopher
Actor: Bancroft, John
Actor: Hampshire, Susan
Actor: Benson, George
Actor: Swinburne, Nora
Actor: Welsh, John
Actor: Porter, Eric
Actor: Pennell, Nicholas
Actor: Neve, Suzanne
Actor: Barry, June
Actor: Parish, Clifford
Actor: Penn, Dallia
Actor: Morris, Lana
Actor: Sherman, Geraldine
Actor: Woodbridge, George
Actor: Blakiston, Carline
Actor: More, Kenneth
Actor: Laird, Jenny
Actor: Phillips, Robin
Actor: Brown, AJ
Actor: Tyzack, Margaret
Actor: Penick, Susan
Actor: York, Michael
Actor: Fernald, Karin
Actor: Compton, Fay
Actor: O'Conor, Joseph
Actor: Scully, Terry
Actor: Howells, Ursula
Actor: Singer, Campbell
Actor: Flarter, Sarah
Actor: Rowe, Fanny
Actor: Baskcomb, John
Actor: Lukham, Cyril
Actor: Burn, Jonathan
Actor: Reeves, Kynaston
Actor: Cowling, Brenda
Actor: deVigier, Anne
Actor: Nicholson, Nora
Actor: Francis, Derek
Actor: Hamilton, Hal
Actor: Porter, Nyree Dawn
Producer: Wilson, Donald, 1910-2002
Producing Organization: British Broadcasting Corporation
Producing Organization: WGBH Educational Foundation
AAPB Contributor Holdings
Thirteen - New York Public Media (WNET)
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Library of Congress
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Color: B&W
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Chicago: “The Forsyte Saga; 26; Swan Song,” 1970-03-29, Thirteen WNET, WGBH, Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed May 16, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-54xgzggw.
MLA: “The Forsyte Saga; 26; Swan Song.” 1970-03-29. Thirteen WNET, WGBH, Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. May 16, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-54xgzggw>.
APA: The Forsyte Saga; 26; Swan Song. Boston, MA: Thirteen WNET, WGBH, Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-54xgzggw