Season 1

Episodes

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   1. Haste from the Wedding

   20 Sept 1966

   Margaret Hale's upbringing in a parsonage and in London hardly prepared her when circumstances forced her to live humbly in a murky, cotton-spinning town. Here she was brought into contact with both masters and men.

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   2. Men and Gentlemen

   27 Sept 1966

   Margaret Hale has met John Thornton, the industrialist. They are attracted, but each is antagonistic to " what the other stands for.

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   3. Dark Nights

   4 Oct 1966

   The strikers are determined on Thornton's life-and it is Margaret with an implied taunt of cowardice who has sent him to face them.

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   4. Looking South

   11 Oct 1966

   Margaret has refused Thornton's offer of marriage-and he has seen her at the railway station with her brother, whom he has mistaken for a rival suitor and the reason for her rejection of him.

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   5. Meeting Again

   18 Oct 1966

   Margaret is to leave the North and Thornton, and return to London to live with her cousin.