Seasons & Episodes
Season 1
4 episodes
E01
Episode 1
Thomas Farriner returns home to Pudding Lane to find the bakery ablaze and his two daughters asleep upstairs, unaware of the raging inferno below.
E02
Episode 2
The fire is gaining strength. Thomas bursts into sister-in-law Sarah Farriner’s lodgings to wake his family and lead them to safety. But Sarah is nowhere to be seen and their shouts for her in the street yield nothing. Thomas leads them through the crowds to the Thames. But they have no luck escaping by river, so instead make their way north towards Moorfields.
E03
Episode 3
Thomas returns to the city in search of Sarah to see the fire spreading with alarming speed across the capital. In Whitehall the King’s angry to learn his orders to create fire-breaks have been ignored by his advisors.
E04
Episode 4
Thomas guiltily reveals that Sarah's husband Will is not dead as she suspected, he is in fact alive having deserted to the colonies, leaving his family alone and penniless. Sarah's shock turns to anger at Thomas, and it's with a shadow hanging over them that they return to Moorfields.
Cast
Andrew Buchan
as Thomas Farriner
Jack Huston
as King Charles II
Rose Leslie
as Sarah Farriner
Charles Dance
as Lord Denton
Daniel Mays
as Samuel Pepys
Ben Crompton
as Mr. Bagwell
Oliver Jackson-Cohen
as James, Duke of York
Perdita Weeks
as Elizabeth Pepys
William Beck
as Richard Smith
Geoff Bell
as Wilson
Sonya Cassidy
as Queen Catherine of Braganza
Uriel Emil
as Romero
