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| Polly Walker | Lucetta Templeman | |
| Jodhi May | Elizabeth Jane | |
| Ciaran Hinds | ||
| James Purefoy | Donald Farfrae | |
| Ciarán Hinds | Michael Henchard | |
| Juliet Aubrey | Susan Henchard | |
| Darren Hawkes | Auctioneer | |
| Jean Marsh | Furmity Woman | |
| Michael Beint | Coachman | |
| Clive Russell | Newson | |
| John Surman | Tent Auctioneer | |
| Polly Walker (II) | ||
| Alan Bates | Michael Henchard | |
| Janet Maw | Elizabeth Jane Henchard | |
| Jack Galloway | Donald Farfrae | |
| Anne Stallybrass | Susan | |
| Anna Massey | Lucetta Templeman | |
| Avis Bunnage | Mrs. Goodenough | |
| Peter Bourke | Abel Whittle | |
| Ronald Lacey | Jopp | |
| Richard Owens | Newson | |
| Jeffrey Holland | Carter | |
| Freddie Jones | Fall |
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| Producer | Georgina Lowe
Delia Fine Sally Head Jonathan Powell |
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| Writer | Ted Whitehead
Thomas Hardy Dennis Potter |
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The captivating story of love, honor, family and betrayal. Destitute and drunken, Michael Henchard is an itinerant farmhand who sells his wife and daughter to a sailor in a moment of alcohol-fueled desperation. So begins The Mayor of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy's enduring classic. This lavish new adaptation from A&E and Britain's ITV stars Ciaran Hinds (Road To Perdition, Jane Eyre) as the tragic, tormented Henchard. Decades after his fateful decision, now reformed and respectable, he is offered a chance at redemption when his wife reappears with her daughter. But the reunion's promise is soon tarnished by a web of jealousy, deceit and wounded pride. Adapted for the screen by Ted Whitehead (A&E's Tess Of the D'Urbervilles) The Mayor Of Casterbridge features powerful supporting performances from Jodhi May (The House of Mirth), Polly Walker (Emma), and James Purefoy (A Knight's Tale, Mansfield Park). |
| Seen it: Yes 0 hr 50 mins 1/22/1978 1. Part One | ||
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Michael Henchard sells his wife to a sailor at a country fair, while drunk. As the years pass, he prospers and becomes mayor of the town. Then his wife and daughter come to live in the town....
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| Seen it: Yes 0 hr 50 mins 1/29/1978 2. Part Two | ||
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Henchard is now Mayor of Casterbridge. When his wife returns, eighteen years after he sold her, he decides they must remarry.
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| Seen it: Yes 0 hr 50 mins 2/5/1978 3. Part Three | ||
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The jealous Henchard has sacked Donald Farfrae and forbidden him to see Elizabeth-Jane. When his wife Susan dies it is just the start of his troubles.
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| Seen it: Yes 0 hr 50 mins 2/12/1978 4. Part Four | ||
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Elizabeth-Jane is now working for Lucetta, who, having been the subject of Henchard's attentions, is now interested in Farfrae. The furious Henchard plans to ruin his rival...
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| Seen it: Yes 0 hr 50 mins 2/19/1978 5. Part Five | ||
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Henchard's secret is out. Denounced as a wife-seller and with his business in trouble his discovery that Lucetta has married Farfrae completes his humiliation.
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| Seen it: Yes 0 hr 50 mins 2/26/1978 6. Part Six | ||
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Farfrae becomes Mayor of Casterbridge. Lucetta, afraid that Henchard will expose her, asks him to return her love letters.
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| Seen it: Yes 0 hr 50 mins 3/5/1978 7. Part Seven | ||
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Lucetta has died, the victim of an evil trick. Henchard's conciliation with Elizabeth is short-lived: when her father comes to claim her Henchard pretends she is dead.
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