Wessex Tales
1973 · 1 season · 6 episodes · Ended · BBC Two
Drama
TMDB 7.0 · 3 votes
An anthology series based on the Wessex Tales, a collection of short stories by novelist Thomas Hardy.
Episodes
- S01E01The Withered Arm1973-11-0775m
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.
- S01E02Fellow Townsmen1973-11-1475m
Barnet has made an unhappy marriage, Downe a happy one. The lives of the 'Fellow Townsmen' become tragically interwoven.
- S01E03A Tragedy of Two Ambitions1973-11-2175m
Like a ghost from the past, the Halborough brothers' drunken father reappears to destroy their image of respectability.
- S01E04An Imaginative Woman1973-11-2875m
Fate brings Ella Marchmill to rent the rooms of a poet she has always admired. Her admiration gradually turns into obsession.
- S01E05The Melancholy Hussar1973-12-0575m
A tragic rural romance between a soldier who hates the service, and the rustic maid whose love could save him.
- S01E06Barbara of the House of Grebe1973-12-1275m
Lord Uplandtowers vows to make Barbara his wife, but she has secret plans of her own.
