Blanche DuBois is taken away to a mental institution by a doctor and a nurse.

At Nina Riva’s famous end-of-summer party in 1983, the four Riva siblings face their famous singer father Mick, who abandoned them, and their own secrets.

D’Artagnan and the musketeers Athos, Porthos and Aramis capture the treacherous spy Milady de Winter after she poisons Constance Bonacieux, d’Artagnan’s love.

Marguerite Blakeney learns that her foppish husband, Sir Percy, is the Scarlet Pimpernel, the hero who rescues French aristocrats from the guillotine.

Rudolf Rassendyll, an Englishman who looks exactly like King Rudolf V of Ruritania, rescues the real king from Black Michael’s castle of Zenda.

David Balfour, kidnapped by his miserly uncle Ebenezer and shipwrecked in Scotland, survives a flight across the Highlands with the Jacobite Alan Breck Stewart.

Michael Henchard, who as a drunk young man sold his wife and baby at a fair and later became mayor of Casterbridge, loses everything: his wealth, his position and the stepdaughter Elizabeth-Jane he came to love.

Maggie Tulliver, an outcast after her scandalous boat trip with her cousin’s fiancé Stephen Guest, rows through a great flood to rescue her estranged brother Tom from the family mill.

Dorothea Brooke, whose late husband Edward Casaubon left a cruel will cutting her off if she married his young cousin Will Ladislaw, gives up her fortune and marries Will anyway.

Mary Poppins, the magical nanny who arrived on the east wind at the Banks family’s house on Cherry Tree Lane, leaves just as suddenly when the wind changes to the west.