Wessex Tales (1973)
Synopsis
An anthology series based on the Wessex Tales, a collection of short stories by novelist Thomas Hardy.
First Air Date: 1973-11-07
Last Air Date: 1973-12-12
Number of Seasons: 1
Number of Episodes: 6
Created By: Thomas Hardy
Networks: BBC Two
Top Cast
- Billie Whitelaw as Rhoda
- Yvonne Antrobus as Gertrude
- Edward Hardwicke as Farmer John Lodge
- William Relton as Jamie
- Paul Hardwick as Hangman
- Esmond Knight as Conjuror Trendle
- Hugh Morton as Doctor
- Virginia Snyders as Housekeeper
- John Welsh as Dairyman
- Valerie Holliman as Beth
Seasons
Miniseries (1973)
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Episodes:
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Ep. 1: The Withered Arm
In the early 19th century, a young married woman is stricken with a mysterious malady and searching for a cure leads her in to mysteries and tragedy.
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Ep. 2: Fellow Townsmen
Barnet has made an unhappy marriage, Downe a happy one. The lives of the 'Fellow Townsmen' become tragically interwoven.
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Ep. 3: A Tragedy of Two Ambitions
Like a ghost from the past, the Halborough brothers' drunken father reappears to destroy their image of respectability.
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Ep. 4: An Imaginative Woman
Fate brings Ella Marchmill to rent the rooms of a poet she has always admired. Her admiration gradually turns into obsession.
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Ep. 5: The Melancholy Hussar
A tragic rural romance between a soldier who hates the service, and the rustic maid whose love could save him.
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Ep. 6: Barbara of the House of Grebe
Lord Uplandtowers vows to make Barbara his wife, but she has secret plans of her own.
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