Plotlands (1997)
5h 0min
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- Synopsis:
Period drama serial. In the 1920's, Londoner Chloe Marsh (to escape her abusive husband) takes her two daughters and tries to start a new life on a new style housing estate where you buy a plot of land (for five pounds) and build your own house...When Londoner Chloe Marsh (Saskia Reeves) sees a poster advertising plots of land for sale for only five pounds, she decides to run away from her abusive husband, taking her two children with her. However he dream of a new start is not quite as as she anticipated with her and her girls having to make do with a tent as a home... Tom (Richard Lintern), who lives on the edge of the Plotlands development and acts as a kind of a caretaker, has a secret from his past life during world war one when a former comrade turned crook turns up...Chloe and her children are beginning to settle in and Chloe's relationship with Tom is progressing but then Chloe's husband John (Terence Beesley) appears on the scene demanding his marital rights, thanks to Tom he soon learns the way things now stand and the whole Plotlands community rally round to help the Mulligans finish their house... - Actors:
- Saskia Reeves, Amanda Abbington, Rebecca Callard, Richard Cordery, Peter Dineen, Richard Lintern, Tim Preece, David Ryall, Ger Ryan, Barry Ward, Philip Whitchurch, Jade Williams, Jamie Glover, Petra Markham, Eve Schickle, James Helm, Richard Avery, Terence Beesley, Sally Mates, Lloyd McGuire
- Directors:
- John Strickland
- Producers:
- Louis Marks
- Writers:
- Jeremy Brock
- Genres:
- British TV, TV Classics, TV Dramas
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