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Anna Karenina

TV·1977–1977·1 season, 10 episodes·BBC One·Drama·50m

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Anna Karenina was a 1977 BBC television adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's novel & tragic story of the love affair between Vronsky, a Russian Count and Anna Karenina, a married upper class woman. Nicola Pagett takes the role of Anna, a young woman who is married to a man twenty years her senior (Eric Porter), and who begins a passionate affair with the handsome Count Vronsky (Stuart Wilson). When she falls pregnant, Anna decides to dissolve her marriage and wed Vronsky, but true happiness proves elusive.

Cast

Nicola PagettNicola PagettAnna KareninaStuart WilsonStuart WilsonVronskyEric PorterEric PorterKareninRobert SwannRobert SwannLevinDavyd HarriesDavyd HarriesStivaCaroline LangrisheCaroline LangrisheKitty

Episodes by season

Season0110Episodes1977Aired—Season avg
  1. S01E01Anna Karenina S01E01Part 1September 25, 1977—After her brother is found being unfaithful, Anna Karenina persuades her sister-in-law not to leave him.
  2. S01E02Anna Karenina S01E02Part 2October 2, 1977—Army officer Vronsky falls in love with Anna, who returns to her husband, Karenin, and their son.
  3. S01E03Anna Karenina S01E03Part 3October 9, 1977—Anna returns Vronsky's feelings, and becomes pregnant with his child.
  4. S01E04Anna Karenina S01E04Part 4October 16, 1977—Count Alexei chides his wife Anna about her most recent disrespectful behavior then asks that she admit all that has been going on.
  5. S01E05Anna Karenina S01E05Part 5October 23, 1977—After a difficult birth to a baby girl, Anna flees with Vronsky without obtaining a divorce from Karenin.
  6. S01E06Anna Karenina S01E06Part 6October 30, 1977—Levin and Kitty marry and soon after, Kitty discovers that she is pregnant.
  7. S01E07Anna Karenina S01E07Part 7November 6, 1977—Anna and Vronsky return to Russia. After a furious Karenin sees Anna visiting their son, she and Vronsky leave.
  8. S01E08Anna Karenina S01E08Part 8November 13, 1977—Anna decides to marry Vronsky.
  9. S01E09Anna Karenina S01E09Part 9November 20, 1977—Anna commits suicide after becoming increasingly bitter towards Vronsky.
  10. S01E10Anna Karenina S01E10Part 10November 27, 1977—Karenin takes custody of Anna's baby girl, and Vronsky leaves to help fight the Turks in the Serbian revolt.

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