Jane Eyre

Miniseries

11 episodes · 1983

After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meets the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Edward Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?

Episodes

E1 · Gateshead

1983 · 28m · 10.0 TMDB

This dramatization begins with Jane as a neglected orphan child, unjustly punished by her aunt.

E2 · Lowood Institute

1983 · 28m · 10.0 TMDB

Jane's open defiance of her unjust and tyrannical aunt has led to her dismissal from Gateshead Hall. She's to go instead to Lowood School, where strict discipline is in order.

E3 · Thornfield

1983 · 27m · 10.0 TMDB

Conditions have improved at Lowood School, and Jane finds a measure of contentment, first as pupil and later as teacher.

E4 · Rochester

1983 · 30m · 10.0 TMDB

Happy in her new post, Jane gets on with a new pupil, Adele, and the housekeeper, Mrs. Fairfax. She also meets her new employer, Mr. Rochester.

E5 · Guests

1983 · 30m · 10.0 TMDB

Jane is baffled and fascinated by her employer, Mr. Rochester, who seems more than usually interested in her.

E6 · A Death in the Family

1983 · 30m · 10.0 TMDB

Mr. Rochester is entertaining guests and Jane is perturbed by his evident fondness for Blanche Ingram.

E7 · Proposal

1983 · 30m · 10.0 TMDB

Summoned by her dying aunt, Jane returns to Gateshead Hall, scene of her unhappy childhood.

E8 · A Secret Is Revealed

1983 · 30m · 10.0 TMDB

Mr. Briggs interrupts the wedding of Jane and Mr. Rochester with the claim that the marriage cannot proceed, as Mr. Rochester has a wife.

E9 · Beggarwoman to Teacher

1983 · 30m · 10.0 TMDB

Jane wanders the moors, poor, starving, and heartbroken, until she is rescued.

E10 · Family Found

1983 · 30m · 10.0 TMDB

A destitute Jane has found sanctuary with the Rivers family and has a new post as teacher at the local school.

E11 · Reunion

1983 · 30m · 10.0 TMDB

Jane is about to accept John Rivers' proposal when she hears Rochester's voice calling her.

Crew

Julian Amyes

Director

Alexander Baron

Writer

Barry Letts

Producer

Charlotte Brontë

Novel