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Series · 1973–1973Ended

Wessex Tales

7.0·1 season·6 episodes·75 min avg.·United Kingdom

An anthology series based on the Wessex Tales, a collection of short stories by novelist Thomas Hardy.

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The Withered Arm
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Nov 7, 1973

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.

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Fellow Townsmen
Fellow Townsmen
Nov 14, 1973

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

03
A Tragedy of Two Ambitions
A Tragedy of Two Ambitions
Nov 21, 1973

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

04
An Imaginative Woman
An Imaginative Woman
Nov 28, 1973

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

05
The Melancholy Hussar
The Melancholy Hussar
Dec 5, 1973

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

06
Barbara of the House of Grebe
Barbara of the House of Grebe
Dec 12, 1973

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

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