Season 1

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  7.5/1021 votes

  Part One

  Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/22/1978

  Michael Henchard sells his wife and child to a sailor at a country fair, while drunk. Over 21 years, he prospers and becomes mayor of the town. Then his wife and daughter return.

  Director: David Giles

  Writer: Dennis Potter

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  7.6/1020 votes

  Part Two

  Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 1/29/1978

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

  Director: David Giles

  Writer: Dennis Potter

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  7.1/1020 votes

  Part Three

  Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 2/5/1978

  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.

  Director: David Giles

  Writer: Dennis Potter

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  7.6/1017 votes

  Part Four

  Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 2/12/1978

  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...

  Director: David Giles

  Writer: Dennis Potter

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  7.4/1017 votes

  Part Five

  Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 2/19/1978

  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.

  Director: David Giles

  Writer: Dennis Potter

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  7.6/1016 votes

  Part Six

  Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 2/26/1978

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

  Director: David Giles

  Writer: Dennis Potter

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  7.6/1016 votes

  Part Seven

  Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 3/5/1978

  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.

  Director: David Giles

  Writer: Dennis Potter