This is a limited miniseries because it lasted one season only and had no more than eight 45 minutes episodes (net of commercials). It was evident from the very first episode that budget was not a constraint.
The Philanthropist is Christopher Hampton's witty and incisive reversal of Moliere's Misanthropist. According to Hampton 'it occurred to me that in the climate of abrasive candour which characterised the late 1960's, Alceste would have been quite at home: whereas his opposite, a man concerned above all to cause no offence and be an unfailing source of sweetness and light, would very likely succeed only in raising heckles where-ever he went'.
It's just airy fairy, stupid in the extreme.