
An anthology series based on the Wessex Tales, a collection of short stories by novelist Thomas Hardy.
Drama • Series • 1973 • 1 season
Created by: Thomas Hardy
S1 E1 - 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.
Nov 7, 1973 • 1h 15m
S1 E2 - Fellow Townsmen
Barnet has made an unhappy marriage, Downe a happy one. The lives of the 'Fellow Townsmen' become tragically interwoven.
Nov 14, 1973 • 1h 15m
S1 E3 - A Tragedy of Two Ambitions
Like a ghost from the past, the Halborough brothers' drunken father reappears to destroy their image of respectability.
Nov 21, 1973 • 1h 15m
S1 E4 - An Imaginative Woman
Fate brings Ella Marchmill to rent the rooms of a poet she has always admired. Her admiration gradually turns into obsession.
Nov 28, 1973 • 1h 15m
S1 E5 - The Melancholy Hussar
A tragic rural romance between a soldier who hates the service, and the rustic maid whose love could save him.
Dec 5, 1973 • 1h 15m
S1 E6 - Barbara of the House of Grebe
Lord Uplandtowers vows to make Barbara his wife, but she has secret plans of her own.
Dec 12, 1973 • 1h 15m
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Wessex Tales
An anthology series based on the Wessex Tales, a collection of short stories by novelist Thomas Hardy.
Drama • TV Series • 1973