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The Mayor of Casterbridge

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First Aired: January 22nd, 1978

Status: Ended

Genre: Drama

Network: BBC Two

Summary: Michael Henchard, an out-of-work hay-trusser, gets drunk at a fair and for five guineas sells his wife and child to a sailor. When the horror of his act finally sets in, Henchard swears he will not touch alcohol for twenty-one years. Through hard work and acumen, he becomes rich, respected, and eventually the mayor of Casterbridge. But eighteen years after his fateful oath, his wife and daughter, Elizabeth-Jane, return to Casterbridge, and his fortunes steadily decline.

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Season 1

Episode 1: Part One

Air Date: January 22nd, 1978

Summary: 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....

Episode 2: Part Two

Air Date: January 29th, 1978

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

Episode 3: Part Three

Air Date: February 5th, 1978

Summary: 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.

Episode 4: Part Four

Air Date: February 12nd, 1978

Summary: 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...

Episode 5: Part Five

Air Date: February 19th, 1978

Summary: 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.

Episode 6: Part Six

Air Date: February 26th, 1978

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

Episode 7: Part Seven

Air Date: March 5th, 1978

Summary: 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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