S01 Episode 1
Part One
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....
50 mins · Sun, 22 Jan 1978
S01 Episode 2
Part Two
Henchard is now Mayor of Casterbridge. When his wife returns, eighteen years after he sold her, he decides they must remarry.
50 mins · Sun, 29 Jan 1978
S01 Episode 3
Part Three
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.
50 mins · Sun, 5 Feb 1978
S01 Episode 4
Part Four
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...
50 mins · Sun, 12 Feb 1978
S01 Episode 5
Part Five
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.
50 mins · Sun, 19 Feb 1978
S01 Episode 6
Part Six
Farfrae becomes Mayor of Casterbridge. Lucetta, afraid that Henchard will expose her, asks him to return her love letters.
50 mins · Sun, 26 Feb 1978
S01 Episode 7
Part Seven
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.
50 mins · Sun, 5 Mar 1978
