The Mayor of Casterbridge(1978)
Drama
First Air Date: 1978-01-22
Average Runtime: 50m
Rating: 6.8
Votes: 4
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 7
The Mayor of Casterbridge is a 1978 BBC seven-part serial based on the eponymous 1886 book by the British novelist Thomas Hardy. The six-hour drama was written by dramatist Dennis Potter and directed by David Giles, with Alan Bates as the title character. Michael Henchard, an out-of-work hay-trusser, gets drunk at a fair and, for five guineas, sells his wife and child to a sailor. When the horror of his act finally sets in, Henchard swears he will not touch alcohol for twenty-one years. Through hard work and acumen, he becomes rich, respected, and eventually the mayor of Casterbridge. But eighteen years after his fateful oath, his wife and daughter return to Casterbridge, and his fortunes steadily decline.
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Episodes: 7E01
Part One
Air Date: 1978-01-22
Michael Henchard sells his wife and child to a sailor at a country fair, while drunk. Over 21 years, he prospers and ...
E02
Part Two
Air Date: 1978-01-29
Henchard is now Mayor of Casterbridge. When his wife returns, eighteen years after he sold her, he decides they must ...
E03
Part Three
Air Date: 1978-02-05
The jealous Henchard has sacked Donald Farfrae and forbidden him to see Elizabeth-Jane. When his wife Susan dies it i...
E04
Part Four
Air Date: 1978-02-12
Elizabeth-Jane is now working for Lucetta, who, having been the subject of Henchard's attentions, is now interested i...
E05
Part Five
Air Date: 1978-02-19
Henchard's secret is out. Denounced as a wife-seller and with his business in trouble his discovery that Lucetta has ...
E06
Part Six
Air Date: 1978-02-26
Farfrae becomes Mayor of Casterbridge. Lucetta, afraid that Henchard will expose her, asks him to return her love let...
E07
Part Seven
Air Date: 1978-03-05
Lucetta has died, the victim of an evil trick. Henchard's conciliation with Elizabeth is short-lived: when her father...
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