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North and South - Season 1

Nineteen-year-old Margaret Hale has lived for almost 10 years in London with her cousin Edith and her wealthy Aunt Shaw, but when Edith marries Captain Lennox, Margaret happily returns home to the southern village of Helstone. Margaret has refused an offer of marriage from the captain's brother Henry, an up-and-coming barrister. Her life is turned upside down when her father, the local pastor, leaves the Church of England and the rectory of Helstone as a matter of conscience; his intellectual honesty has made him a dissenter.

Top Cast

  • Wendy Williams

    Wendy Williams

    Margaret Hale

  • Richard Leech

    Richard Leech

    John Thornton

  • Sonia Dresdel

    Sonia Dresdel

    Mrs. Thornton

  • Edwin Richfield

    Edwin Richfield

    Nicholas Higgins

  • Freda Bamford

    Freda Bamford

    Dixon

  • Freda Dowie

    Freda Dowie

    Fanny Thornton

  • David Markham

    David Markham

    Reverend Richard Hale

  • Peter Welch

    Peter Welch

    Williams

  • Bernard Brown

    Bernard Brown

    Henry Lennox

Overview

Nineteen-year-old Margaret Hale has lived for almost 10 years in London with her cousin Edith and her wealthy Aunt Shaw, but when Edith marries Captain Lennox, Margaret happily returns home to the southern village of Helstone. Margaret has refused an offer of marriage from the captain's brother Henry, an up-and-coming barrister. Her life is turned upside down when her father, the local pastor, leaves the Church of England and the rectory of Helstone as a matter of conscience; his intellectual honesty has made him a dissenter.

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North & South

8.1 2004