To Be the Best with Lindsay Wagner: DVD Cover

    To Be the Best Director: Tony Wharmby Cast: Lindsay Wagner, David Robb, Thomas Ewbank, Christopher Cazenove

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    • DVD Release Date: 04/16/2002
    • Original Release: 1992
    • Rating: Not Rated
    • Sales Rank: 49,158

    Viewer Rating: (1 ratings)

    Detailed Rating: "Engaging" See All

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    Side #1 --
    0. Scene Index
    0. Part 1
    2. Taking a Chance [7:22]
    3. Break In [11:24]
    4. First Encounter [12:07]
    5. Weakness [11:06]
    6. Foul Play [12:15]
    7. The Plan [9:07]
    8. Selling Shares [10:29]
    9. Deadly Matters [17:25]
    0. Part 2
    2. Sordid Calls [8:24]
    3. Hong Kong [9:34]
    4. Picture This [11:06]
    5. The Tip [15:41]
    6. Needing Love [8:40]
    7. Discovery [11:35]
    8. Secrets Revealed [10:49]
    9. Gala Time [15:16]

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    Lindsay Wagner stars as Paula O'Neill in this made-for-TV miniseries based on the best-selling novel by Barbara Taylor Bradford. Paula's grandmother, Emma Harte, took a failing department store and turned it into the powerful Harte Industries retail empire, and now that Paula has inherited the family business, she is determined to expand their international success by launching a new store in Hong Kong. However, Paula's cousins Jonathan (Christopher Cazenove) and Sarah (Claire Oberman) are determined to wrest control of the company away from Paula, and begin running interference in her plans for global expansion. Paula soon learns that Harte Industries is on financially shaky ground, and her personal life begins to crumble under the strain of keeping Hart Enterprises afloat. As Jonathan uses the firm's financial woes to his advantage, Paula finds that Jack Figg (Anthony Hopkins), the company's head of security, may be her last line of defense against her devious relatives. Originally broadcast in August 1992, To Be the Best was a follow-up to 1983's A Woman of Substance, another miniseries based on a Barbara Taylor Bradford novel, which covered Paula's life before she took over the family business; Diane Baker played Paula in the earlier series. Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

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    To Be the Worst!by Anonymous

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    November 08, 2008: Don't bother buying the DVD "To Be the Best." If you saw "Woman of Substance" and "Hold the Dream" this one doesn't come close. Lindsey Wagner makes an awful Paula, and she would never have had an affair with Jack Figg. Jack Figg figures prominently in the movie although in the book he was a passing figure. Sandy was head of Hart Enterprises and wouldn't have been gambling in Hong Kong. Philip ran the sheep station and had nothing whatever to do with the stores. They show Shane as being antagonistic toward Paula's working and that didn't happen. Also, what happened to Paula's older twins. They are not mentioned and Emily has no part in this story either although she was a large part of the book.

    The only good part of this DVD is that Barbara Taylor Bradford introduces it.

    Dont' waste your money on this one.

    I Also Recommend: A Woman of Substance, Hold The Dream.