Dramatised for television by A.R. Rawlinson
with Peter Sallis as Samuel Pepys

The action takes place in the City of London, at the Tower, at Whitehall Palace and at Sayes Court.
It is January 1669. Samuel Pepys has successfully defended the Navy Board before Parliament and won great renown. But he is suffering from his eyesight - and also from a domestic upheaval. His wife, Elizabeth, caught him embracing her maid Deb Willett, and Samuel has sworn to mend his love-life to save his marriage.
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