Wessex Tales – Miniseries
1973
6 Episodes
Episodes
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S01E01
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.
07 Nov 197375m
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S01E02
Fellow Townsmen
Barnet has made an unhappy marriage, Downe a happy one. The lives of the 'Fellow Townsmen' become tragically interwoven.
14 Nov 197375m
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S01E03
A Tragedy of Two Ambitions
Like a ghost from the past, the Halborough brothers' drunken father reappears to destroy their image of respectability.
21 Nov 197375m
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S01E04
An Imaginative Woman
Fate brings Ella Marchmill to rent the rooms of a poet she has always admired. Her admiration gradually turns into obsession.
28 Nov 197375m
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S01E05
The Melancholy Hussar
A tragic rural romance between a soldier who hates the service, and the rustic maid whose love could save him.
05 Dec 197375m
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S01E06
Barbara of the House of Grebe
Lord Uplandtowers vows to make Barbara his wife, but she has secret plans of her own.
12 Dec 197375m