Wessex Tales
An anthology series based on the Wessex Tales, a collection of short stories by novelist Thomas Hardy.
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Seasons
- Ep 1
1.The Withered Arm
07-11-197375mIn 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.
- Ep 2
2.Fellow Townsmen
14-11-197375mBarnet has made an unhappy marriage, Downe a happy one. The lives of the 'Fellow Townsmen' become tragically interwoven.
- Ep 3
3.A Tragedy of Two Ambitions
21-11-197375mLike a ghost from the past, the Halborough brothers' drunken father reappears to destroy their image of respectability.
- Ep 4
4.An Imaginative Woman
28-11-197375mFate brings Ella Marchmill to rent the rooms of a poet she has always admired. Her admiration gradually turns into obsession.
- Ep 5
5.The Melancholy Hussar
05-12-197375mA tragic rural romance between a soldier who hates the service, and the rustic maid whose love could save him.
- Ep 6
6.Barbara of the House of Grebe
12-12-197375mLord Uplandtowers vows to make Barbara his wife, but she has secret plans of her own.
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