Wessex Tales

E1. The Withered Arm

Nov 7, 1973 · 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.

E2. Fellow Townsmen

Nov 14, 1973 · 75m

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

E3. A Tragedy of Two Ambitions

Nov 21, 1973 · 75m

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

E4. An Imaginative Woman

Nov 28, 1973 · 75m

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

E5. The Melancholy Hussar

Dec 5, 1973 · 75m

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

E6. Barbara of the House of Grebe

Dec 12, 1973 · 75m

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