Mr Selfridge tells the story of 'Mile a Minute Harry', a man with a mission to make shopping as thrilling as sex when he opens a lavish department store intended to indulge and empower women in early 1900s London.
Cast
Jeremy Piven, Frances O'Connor, Kika Markham, Ron Cook, Tom Goodman-Hill, Amanda Abbington, Trystan Gravelle, Samuel West, Nick Moran, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Zoe Tapper, Katherine KellyIt's 1908 and Chicago born Harry Selfridge has arrived in London with a grand plan - to open the biggest and finest department store the world has ever seen within the year.
Selfridge's is open but it's missing something - customers! Harry's worried - he knows he needs to capture the imagination of London to get some much needed publicity.
Harry has a new idea: he wants to create a new Beauty Counter at the front of the store that sells perfume and even makeup - much to the consternation of some of his staff.
Harry scores a massive coup when world-famous ballerina Anna Pavlova agrees to visit the store. Feeling coolness in Harry's affections, a disgruntled Ellen leans on Frank for support.
Harry revels in the display motorcar brought in for the store's new motoring merchandise. Roddy surprises Rose at home - and young Beatrice sees him steal a kiss! Harry visits Agnes, persuading her back to the store.
Harry is unconscious after his car accident - and he suffers more flashbacks to a specific moment in his childhood.
Literary giant and Spiritualist Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is in for a book signing when he persuades Harry to hold a seance in the store.
The Selfridges' old friends Frank and Jennie Woolworth are in London and Harry smells competition.
Man of the moment, Ernest Shackleton has been invited to the store by Harry to give a lecture. But Harry's rattled by news of the death of an ex-employee.
Harry's excitement about a 'royal' visitor to the store is tempered by an invitation to the first night of Ellen Love's play.
Mr Selfridge tells the story of 'Mile a Minute Harry', a man with a mission to make shopping as thrilling as sex when he opens a lavish department store intended to indulge and empower women in early 1900s London.
