Mr. Selfridge

London, 1908. The bold retailer, Harry Selfridge, is assembling his great plans for the biggest and finest department store the world has ever seen.

Selfridge’s has now been open for a few months. The displays are still as dazzling and seductive as on opening day, and the staff are poised for action. The only thing the store is missing…is customers. Lady Mae visits the store.

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. Agnes has trouble with Reg. Ellen Love is a possible threat.

Harry scores a coup when world-famous ballerina, Anna Pavlova, agrees to visit the store. Victor saves George from trouble in the loading bay. A disgruntled Ellen Love leans on Frank for support.

Harry brings a motorcar into the store for the new motoring merchandise. Roddy surprises Rose at home. Harry visits Agnes, persuading her back to the store and Henri is pleased to see her. Lady Mae makes a play for Victor.

Harry is unconscious after his car accident, flashing back to a specific moment of his childhood. The Selfridge family are in disarray by Harry’s bedside.

Literary giant and spiritualist Sir Arthur Conan Doyle comes for a book signing and persuades Harry to hold a séance at the store. Harry and Crabb work to deliver a valuable stock issue from the bank, with the help of Lady Mae.

Frank and Jennie Woolworth are in London and Harry smells competition. Things get awkward for Rose when she bumps into Roddy at Lady Mae’s party, and even more so when Rosalie takes a shine to him.

Ernest Shackleton has been invited to the store to give a lecture. But Harry’s rattled by news of the death of an ex-employee. Rose is forced to tell Harry that Roddy is making a nuisance of himself.

Harry’s excitement about a “royal” visitor to the store is tempered by an invitation to the first night of Ellen Love’s play.