Jane Eyre — Season 1
Make my happiness I will make yours
About this season
After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meets the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Edward Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?
Episodes (11)
1. Gateshead
10.0Aired 9 October 1983 • 28 min
This dramatization begins with Jane as a neglected orphan child, unjustly punished by her aunt.
2. Lowood Institute
10.0Aired 16 October 1983 • 28 min
Jane's open defiance of her unjust and tyrannical aunt has led to her dismissal from Gateshead Hall. She's to go instead to Lowood School, where strict discipline is in order.
3. Thornfield
10.0Aired 23 October 1983 • 27 min
Conditions have improved at Lowood School, and Jane finds a measure of contentment, first as pupil and later as teacher.
4. Rochester
10.0Aired 30 October 1983 • 30 min
Happy in her new post, Jane gets on with a new pupil, Adele, and the housekeeper, Mrs. Fairfax. She also meets her new employer, Mr. Rochester.
5. Guests
10.0Aired 6 November 1983 • 30 min
Jane is baffled and fascinated by her employer, Mr. Rochester, who seems more than usually interested in her.
6. A Death in the Family
10.0Aired 13 November 1983 • 30 min
Mr. Rochester is entertaining guests and Jane is perturbed by his evident fondness for Blanche Ingram.
7. Proposal
10.0Aired 20 November 1983 • 30 min
Summoned by her dying aunt, Jane returns to Gateshead Hall, scene of her unhappy childhood.
8. A Secret Is Revealed
10.0Aired 27 November 1983 • 30 min
Mr. Briggs interrupts the wedding of Jane and Mr. Rochester with the claim that the marriage cannot proceed, as Mr. Rochester has a wife.
9. Beggarwoman to Teacher
10.0Aired 4 December 1983 • 30 min
Jane wanders the moors, poor, starving, and heartbroken, until she is rescued.
10. Family Found
10.0Aired 11 December 1983 • 30 min
A destitute Jane has found sanctuary with the Rivers family and has a new post as teacher at the local school.
11. Reunion
10.0Aired 18 December 1983 • 30 min
Jane is about to accept John Rivers' proposal when she hears Rochester's voice calling her.