A Woman of Substance

Name: A Woman of Substance
Genre: Drama

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Barbara Taylor Bradford's servant girl who builds a department store empire, across three nights.

A Woman of Substance opens with a main title sequence of 42 seconds.

It arrived on Channel 4 in 1985, when Romper Room, Truth or Consequences and Soul Train were also on the network.

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The opening titles

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