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Season 1

  • S01E01 Craven Arms

    • August 20, 1972
    • ITV1

    David Masterson is a philandering art teacher who is caught between his relationships with three of his pupils.

  • S01E02 The Mill

    • August 27, 1972
    • ITV1

    Alice is hired to keep house at an old mill for the Hollands. Mrs. Holland has been bedridden for many years and her husband has been looking after her for several years.

  • S01E03 The Sullen Sisters

    • September 3, 1972
    • ITV1

    19 year-old Tommy Adams is desperately in love with Rachel Sullens, the local postmistress. His wishes to get married are thwarted by his possessive and suspicious mother.

  • S01E04 Crippled Bloom

    • September 10, 1972
    • ITV1

    About Ruby and Nan, two sisters who share a house with Ruby's husband Potter-Jones and the bitter triangular relationships which ensues.

  • S01E05 The Watercress Girl

    • September 17, 1972
    • ITV1

    Play by Hugh Leonard, Mary McDowall stands trial for an attack on a rival in love. But what were the reasons behind her refusal to marry Frank, her lover?

  • S01E06 Breeze Anstey

    • September 24, 1972
    • ITV1

Season 2

  • S02E01 The Little Farm

    • January 28, 1973
    • ITV1

    Tom Richards an illiterate farmer advertises for a housekeeper. Edna Johnson takes the post and they seem destined for happiness until they encounter the distructive forces of jealousy.

  • S02E02 The Black Dog

    • February 4, 1973
    • ITV1

    The Hon. Gerald Laughlin finds himself locked in a power struggle between Nathaniel Crabbe's daughter, Orianda, and Crabbe's mistress Lizzie, under the roof of his inn the Black Dog.

  • S02E03 The Higgler

    • February 11, 1972
    • ITV1

    Harvey Whitlow's mother cannot understand why Harvey has chosen to stand by his long time sweetheart Sophy Daws and reject the advances of well-to-do Mary. Filmed on location on the Snake Pass in Derbyshire and the village of Sheldon.

  • S02E04 The Simple Life

    • February 18, 1973
    • ITV1

    Stella Bartholomew is disillusioned with her husband's weekend obsession with the "simple life" at their country retreat, until Roger comes to help around the house.

  • S02E05 An Aspidistra in Babylon

    • February 25, 1973
    • ITV1

    Summer in Dover 1919: Christine's mother runs a boarding house, in which Christine feels like the dull aspidistras which clutter the rooms, until Captain Blaine arrives to find rooms for his rich aunt. Christine falls in love for the first time, and under goes a violent change from innocent young girl into a woman brought to the very edge of corruption.

  • S02E06 The Ring of Truth

    • March 4, 1973
    • ITV1

    As young Pickard listens to the revelations of Kitty, the girl in the hotel bar, about her dream life, he realises that at last he has found a sympathetic friend who might help him discover the secret behind his father's death - and help him find his own happiness. The experience of a strange dream has started George on his quest, and has led him to the northern country town where Kitty helps her sister manage the station hotel. Set in the 1930's, and filmed entirely on location in Todmorden, Yorkshire, and Marple, Cheshire.

  • S02E07 The Four Beauties

    • March 11, 1973
    • ITV1

    Henry Batley, a bored young journalist in a small town is attracted to both Christie Davenport and her sister Sophie, whilst younger sister Tina is determined to make him hers.