The Mayor of Casterbridge - Season 1

The Mayor of Casterbridge

Season 1

1978 • 7 Episodes

Episodes

Part One - The Mayor of Casterbridge

1. Part One

January 22, 1978

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....

Part Two - The Mayor of Casterbridge

2. Part Two

January 29, 1978

Henchard is now Mayor of Casterbridge. When his wife returns, eighteen years after he sold her, he decides they must remarry.

Part Three - The Mayor of Casterbridge

3. Part Three

February 5, 1978

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.

Part Four - The Mayor of Casterbridge

4. Part Four

February 12, 1978

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...

Part Five - The Mayor of Casterbridge

5. Part Five

February 19, 1978

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.

Part Six - The Mayor of Casterbridge

6. Part Six

February 26, 1978

Farfrae becomes Mayor of Casterbridge. Lucetta, afraid that Henchard will expose her, asks him to return her love letters.

Part Seven - The Mayor of Casterbridge

7. Part Seven

March 5, 1978

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.