North and South
1966 · 1 season · 5 episodes · Ended · BBC One
Drama
Nineteen-year-old Margaret Hale has lived for almost 10 years in London with her cousin Edith and her wealthy Aunt Shaw, but when Edith marries Captain Lennox, Margaret happily returns home to the southern village of Helstone. Margaret has refused an offer of marriage from the captain's brother Henry, an up-and-coming barrister. Her life is turned upside down when her father, the local pastor, leaves the Church of England and the rectory of Helstone as a matter of conscience; his intellectual honesty has made him a dissenter.
Episodes
- S01E01Haste from the Wedding1966-09-20
Margaret Hale's upbringing in a parsonage and in London hardly prepared her when circumstances forced her to live humbly in a murky, cotton-spinning town. Here she was brought into contact with both masters and men.
- S01E02Men and Gentlemen1966-09-27
Margaret Hale has met John Thornton, the industrialist. They are attracted, but each is antagonistic to " what the other stands for.
- S01E03Dark Nights1966-10-04
The strikers are determined on Thornton's life-and it is Margaret with an implied taunt of cowardice who has sent him to face them.
- S01E04Looking South1966-10-11
Margaret has refused Thornton's offer of marriage-and he has seen her at the railway station with her brother, whom he has mistaken for a rival suitor and the reason for her rejection of him.
- S01E05Meeting Again1966-10-18
Margaret is to leave the North and Thornton, and return to London to live with her cousin.
