Helena loves Bertram, but he's of noble birth, while she's just a doctor's daughter. But Bertram is at the court of the King of France, who is ill, and Helena has a remedy that might cure him and win her the right to marry Bertram. But does Bertram want to marry her?

• BBC Television Centre
• Time-Life Television Productions
• Celia Johnson
• Ian Charleson
• Michael Hordern
• Angela Down
• Peter Jeffrey
• Kevin Stoney
• Donald Sinden
• Robert Lindsay