About this season
An anthology series based on the Wessex Tales, a collection of short stories by novelist Thomas Hardy.
Episodes (6)
1. The Withered Arm
Aired 7 November 1973 • 75 min
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.
2. Fellow Townsmen
Aired 14 November 1973 • 75 min
Barnet has made an unhappy marriage, Downe a happy one. The lives of the 'Fellow Townsmen' become tragically interwoven.
3. A Tragedy of Two Ambitions
Aired 21 November 1973 • 75 min
Like a ghost from the past, the Halborough brothers' drunken father reappears to destroy their image of respectability.
4. An Imaginative Woman
Aired 28 November 1973 • 75 min
Fate brings Ella Marchmill to rent the rooms of a poet she has always admired. Her admiration gradually turns into obsession.
5. The Melancholy Hussar
Aired 5 December 1973 • 75 min
A tragic rural romance between a soldier who hates the service, and the rustic maid whose love could save him.
6. Barbara of the House of Grebe
Aired 12 December 1973 • 75 min
Lord Uplandtowers vows to make Barbara his wife, but she has secret plans of her own.