E1 - Part One

Aired: December 01, 1975

Margaret Hale is pleased to be leaving London to live with her parents in Hampshire. She is unaware that an even longer journey is in store.

E2 - Part Two

Aired: December 08, 1975

Mr Hale has left the Church and is working as a tutor in a Northern industrial town. Times are hard for the mill workers and a strike is threatened.

E3 - Part Three

Aired: December 15, 1975

John Thornton has succeeded in breaking the strike. Margaret Hale has put her reputation at risk by protecting him from a mob of angry workers. John Thornton has misinterpreted her action and, with the grudging approval of his mother, he has resolved to marry her.

E4 - Part Four

Aired: December 22, 1975

Margaret Hale has rejected John Thornton 's proposal of marriage and has defended herself against Mrs Thornton 's accusations.