Nineteen-year-old Margaret Hale has lived for almost 10 years in London with her cousin Edith and her wealthy Aunt Shaw, but when Edith marries Captain Lennox, Margaret happily returns home to the southern village of Helstone. Margaret has refused an offer of marriage from the captain's brother Henry, an up-and-coming barrister. Her life is turned upside down when her father, the local pastor, leaves the Church of England and the rectory of Helstone as a matter of conscience; his intellectual honesty has made him a dissenter.
DirectorHugh David
WritersElizabeth Gaskell, David Turner
Haste from the Wedding
Sep 20, 1966
Margaret Hale's upbringing in a parsonage and in London hardly prepared her when circumstances forced her to live humbly in a murky, cotton-spinning town. Here she was brought into contact with both masters and men.
Men and Gentlemen
Sep 27, 1966
Margaret Hale has met John Thornton, the industrialist. They are attracted, but each is antagonistic to " what the other stands for.
Dark Nights
Oct 4, 1966
The strikers are determined on Thornton's life-and it is Margaret with an implied taunt of cowardice who has sent him to face them.
Looking South
Oct 11, 1966
Margaret has refused Thornton's offer of marriage-and he has seen her at the railway station with her brother, whom he has mistaken for a rival suitor and the reason for her rejection of him.
Meeting Again
Oct 18, 1966
Margaret is to leave the North and Thornton, and return to London to live with her cousin.
