

To Be the Best
To Be the Best is a two-part 1991 British television serial, based on Barbara Taylor Bradford's 1988 novel of the same name, a follow-up to A Woman of Substance (1984) and Hold the Dream (1987). It stars Lindsay Wagner as Paula O'Neill (née Harte), taking over the role from Deborah Kerr. Paula O'Neill feuds with her cousins as she fights to save her grandmother's business, and struggles to salvage her marriage.
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Paula O'Neill feuds with her cousins as she fights to save her grandmother's business, and struggles to salvage her marriage.
- Ep 1
1.Part 1
02-08-199296mPaula O'Neill, sole heir and head of the empire built up by her grandmother Emma Harte's department store empire, must battle her power-hungry cousin Jonathan Ainsley for control o...
- Ep 2
2.Part 2
09-08-199296mPaula, with the help of her head of security, fights for control of the Harte empire at the opening of the new store in Hong Kong.
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