1. Part One
50min
22nd Jan 1978
Michael Henchard sells his wife to a sailor at a country fair, while drunk. As the years pass, he prospers and becomes mayor of the town. Then his wife and daughter come to live in the town....
Episodes
Cast
Season 1
2. Part Two
50min
29th Jan 1978
Henchard is now Mayor of Casterbridge. When his wife returns, eighteen years after he sold her, he decides they must remarry.
3. Part Three
50min
5th Feb 1978
The jealous Henchard has sacked Donald Farfrae and forbidden him to see Elizabeth-Jane. When his wife Susan dies it is just the start of his troubles.
4. Part Four
50min
12th Feb 1978
Elizabeth-Jane is now working for Lucetta, who, having been the subject of Henchard's attentions, is now interested in Farfrae. The furious Henchard plans to ruin his rival...
5. Part Five
50min
19th Feb 1978
Henchard's secret is out. Denounced as a wife-seller and with his business in trouble his discovery that Lucetta has married Farfrae completes his humiliation.
6. Part Six
50min
26th Feb 1978
Farfrae becomes Mayor of Casterbridge. Lucetta, afraid that Henchard will expose her, asks him to return her love letters.
7. Part Seven
50min
5th Mar 1978
Lucetta has died, the victim of an evil trick. Henchard's conciliation with Elizabeth is short-lived: when her father comes to claim her Henchard pretends she is dead.
First air date
22nd Jan 1978
Last air date
5th Mar 1978
Status
Ended
Type
Miniseries
Original language
en