Andrea Newman's highly provocative series explores the tangled sexual and emotional relationships of a middle-class family as it becomes torn apart by a father's obsessive love for his own daughter. Bouquet of Barbed Wire features spellbinding performances from Frank Finlay, Sheila Allen and Susan Penhaligon and was one of the most celebrated, and controversial, British television dramas ever made.

Peter Manson and his wife appear to enjoy the perfect marriage – but their manipulative daughter Prue's marriage to her American boyfriend becomes the catalyst to the family's dramatic disintegration when Peter can no longer contain his jealous feelings for Prue.