Jude the Obscure

📊 Series Specifications

Network BBC Two
Episode Runtime ~50 min
Total Seasons 1
Total Episodes 6
Original Language EN
Creator Harry Green

Jude the Obscure (1971)

Created by Harry Green
⭐ 2.5 / 5 (6 votes) 🎬 1 Seasons 📼 6 Episodes 🏷️ Drama 📡 Ended
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Synopsis

Jude the Obscure is a British television serial directed by Hugh David and dramatised by Harry Green, based on Thomas Hardy's 1895 novel of the same name. Born into poverty, young Jude Fawley refuses to accept his lot in life. As his dreams are shattered one by one, his life gradually descends into tragedy.

Seasons & Episodes

E1 At Marygreen

Jude Fawley lives in the village of Marygreen with his aunt. When his schoolmaster leaves Marygreen for a position of Christminster, Jude hopes to follow him there someday to attend school.

E2 To Christminster

Jude serves out his apprenticeship as a stonemason and then travels to Christminster to attend school.

E3 To Melchester

Jude is rejected for admission by the Dean of Cardinal College.

E4 To Shaston

Phillotson proposes to Sue, who seeks Jude's advice.

E5 To Aldbrickham

Sue and Jude begin divorce proceedings against their respective spouses and start living together under one roof but in separate rooms.

E6 Christminster Again

Jude travels in search of work and the pregnant Sue finds that she must work too.