TV WEEKEND TV WEEKEND; 'NORTH AND SOUTH,' A MINI-SERIES By JOHN J. O'CONNOR Published: November 1, 1985. The 12-hour mini-series. North.and.South.BBC.Part1.2004.(GREEK SUBS) Like. North and South is the title of three American television miniseries broadcast on the ABC network in 1985, 1986, and 1994. Set before, during, and immediately after. North and South (TV mini-series 1985) http:// 1842, a special summer day at the huge plantation of Mont Royal. TVs, Patrick swayze and Feature film on Pinterest. Watch full episodes of North and South and get the latest breaking news, exclusive videos and pictures, episode recaps and much more at TVGuide.com. North and South (TV Mini-Series 1985) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Search results for tv mini series north south from Search.com. Do you have questions about tv mini series north south? TV and Radio Schedules; Coming Up; Fun Stuff. Set against the backdrop of Victorian England. North & South (TV serial)North & South is a British television drama serial, produced by the BBC and originally broadcast in four episodes on BBC One in November and December 2. It follows the story of Margaret Hale (Daniela Denby- Ashe), a young woman from southern England who has to move to the North after her father decides to leave the clergy. The family struggles to adjust itself to the industrial town's customs, especially after meeting the Thorntons, a proud family of cotton mill owners who seem to despise their social inferiors. The story explores the issues of class and gender, as Margaret's sympathy for the town mill workers clashes with her growing attraction to John Thornton (Richard Armitage). The serial is based on the 1. Victorian novel North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell. It was adapted for television by Sandy Welch and directed by Brian Percival. Margaret Hale (Daniela Denby- Ashe) and her parents Maria (Lesley Manville) and Richard (Tim Pigott- Smith) move to the (fictional) industrial town of Milton, Darkshire, in the north of England because her father, a clergyman, decides to leave the Church of England and become a Nonconformist. Thanks to his friend, Mr. Bell (Brian Protheroe), he is able to find a house and gains employment as a private tutor. One of his pupils is local mill- owner John Thornton (Richard Armitage), who gets off to a bad start with Margaret when she witnesses him beating a worker whom he has caught smoking in the mill, thus endangering all the workers. Gradually, Margaret gets used to Thornton, but his mother Hannah (Sin. In the meantime, Margaret attempts to do charitable work among the working classes, and thus comes into contact with Nicholas Higgins (Brendan Coyle) and his daughter, Bessy (Anna Maxwell Martin), who contracted Pneumoconiosis from exposure to the cotton- fibres in the mills. When Bessy became ill at Hamper's Mill, her father moved her to Marlborough Mills, Thornton's mill, because the working environment is better there. In a meeting with fellow mill owners, Thornton says he had a wheel for ventilation installed in all of the rooms of his factory, despite the fact that it costs a great deal of money. The other industrialists had refused to install a wheel because of the expense. Margaret's mother is falling ill. Mrs Hale desires to see her son Frederick (Rupert Evans) before she dies. Frederick, a naval officer was involved in a mutiny and he cannot return to England without risking his life. However, without telling her father, Margaret writes to her brother in C. Margaret calls on the Thorntons to borrow a water mattress for her mother and is trapped while mill workers riot during a strike. When the angry mob threatens John's safety as he confronts them after Margaret's goading, Margaret defends him from the rioters and is injured by a thrown stone. Margaret recovers and returns home, telling nobody about what had happened at the Mill, mainly to protect the health of her mother. When Thornton proposes to her the next day, she scorns him, thinking he believes himself superior because of the difference in their financial circumstances. He denies this and tells her that he is in love with her, but she insists that her actions were not personal. Meanwhile, Bessy Higgins dies and Thornton stops coming for lessons from Mr. As a distraction for Mrs. Hale and for herself, Margaret visits the Great Exhibition with her Aunt Shaw (Jane Booker), her cousin Edith and Edith's husband. Margaret meets Thornton at the exhibition, where he is discussing the machinery with a group of gentlemen, all of whom are listening with great respect and admiration for his simple good sense. Margaret is embarrassed to meet Thornton so soon after her rejection but defends him when Henry Lennox (John Light), Edith's brother- in- law and an admirer of Margaret, tries to belittle him for being in trade. Henry's sophistication and reliance on fashionable wit and sarcasm compares unfavourably with Thornton's honesty when Margaret sees them together. When Margaret returns home, her mother has taken a turn for the worse. Margaret's brother arrives just in time to see his mother on her death- bed. While Frederick is in the house, Thornton comes to visit his friend Mr. Hale, but he cannot be allowed in, in case he sees Fred. Thornton interprets this as Margaret refusing to see him. The family's servant, Dixon (Pauline Quirke), sees a former member of Frederick's crew in Milton town, and it is decided that Frederick must leave at once, before he is discovered and arrested. He and Margaret are seen together at the railway station by Thornton, who thinks Margaret has a lover. Thornton gives employment to Higgins after Bessy's death, and master and hand get along surprisingly well, despite their differences. They come up with a plan to feed the workers cheaply in a communal kitchen, and Thornton comes to a greater understanding with his workers as they share ideas. However, because of the strike, Thornton's business is in trouble, and he is forced to close the mill. Margaret's father dies in Oxford and she leaves the north to stay with relatives in London, but her godfather, Mr Bell, makes over his fortune to her when he finds out that he has a terminal illness and chooses to move to Argentina for the better climate. Margaret becomes the owner of Marlborough Mills and John Thornton's landlord. Thornton, having discovered the truth about Fred from Mr Higgins, goes south to see Margaret's home town, and on the way back meets her returning from a visit to the north. She proposes a business deal by which the factory can be reopened; after this the two share a kiss. Their final scene takes place on the railway station platform with both going . Welch's story, for example, begins and ends with the main character Margaret Hale travelling by train, which is not the starting and ending point of the novel (although Gaskell describes the Hales travelling from the South to the North by train). Welch also made the main characters visit the Great Exhibition of 1. These are changes Welch believed Gaskell would have done . Armitage himself had been the first actor to read for the role of John Thornton and even though his performance had impressed producer Kate Bartlett and casting director Jill Trevellick, they still had to see many other possible Thorntons. The scenes inside the mill were shot at Helmshore Textile Museum in Rossendale and Queen Street Mill on the outskirts of Burnley, Lancashire. London was another main location, all the interior scenes were shot at the Ealing Studios in west London and the Great Exhibition scene was shot at Alexandra Palace in North London. In 2. 00. 5 the serial's production designer Simon Elliot received a British Academy Television Award nomination for Best Production Design. The short piano tune is played throughout the whole series in different rhythms. The music is especially loud and clear whenever there is a turning point in the relationship between Margaret and Thornton. Audiences, however, were more receptive; hours after the first episode aired in November 2. Retrieved on 2. 3 March 2. Bartlett, Kate; Percival, Brian and Welch, Sandy. Daniela Denby- Ashe, and Richard Armitage. Daniela Denby- Ashe, and Richard Armitage. BBC DVD, 2. 00. 5.^ ab. Staff writer (June 2. The DVD Collection.^ ab. Archived from the original on 2. June 2. 00. 6. Retrieved 2. March 2. 00. 8. Retrieved on 2. April 2. 00. 8.^Kinnes, Sally (3. April 2. 00. 6). 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