Wessex Tales

The Withered Arm

1973-11-07 · 75m

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.

Fellow Townsmen

1973-11-14 · 75m

Barnet has made an unhappy marriage, Downe a happy one. The lives of the 'Fellow Townsmen' become tragically interwoven.

A Tragedy of Two Ambitions

1973-11-21 · 75m

Like a ghost from the past, the Halborough brothers' drunken father reappears to destroy their image of respectability.

An Imaginative Woman

1973-11-28 · 75m

Fate brings Ella Marchmill to rent the rooms of a poet she has always admired. Her admiration gradually turns into obsession.

The Melancholy Hussar

1973-12-05 · 75m

A tragic rural romance between a soldier who hates the service, and the rustic maid whose love could save him.

Barbara of the House of Grebe

1973-12-12 · 75m

Lord Uplandtowers vows to make Barbara his wife, but she has secret plans of her own.