Penmarric
1979 - 1979
Episode 1
12th October 1979Episode 1
First episode of the adaptation from the novel by Susan Howatch. Penmarric is the compelling story of the passionate loves and hatreds of a Cornish family.Episode 2
19th October 1979Episode 2
1890: Mark, now aged 20, has learnt he is heir to Penmarric. Weary of Maud's obsession with the Inheritence, he quarrels with her.Episode 3
26th October 1979Episode 3
1890: Janna has firmly rejected Mark's attentions. He finds his subsequent involvements with Rose Parrish brings its own problems.Episode 4
2nd November 1979Episode 4
1890: Janna and Mark have fallen in love. Janna tells Mark about her early life and about her love affair with his father.Episode 5
9th November 1979Episode 5
1890: Janna and Mark have married and Mark has finally inherited Penmarric. They have moved, but Janna's frequent pregnancies have caused a rift between them.Episode 6
16th November 1979Episode 6
1903: Although Mark has promised he will not see Rose Parrish again, he has left Penmarric to continue his studies, leaving Janna with the children.Episode 7
23rd November 1979Episode 7
1912: Janna has refused Mark a divorce. In turn, Mark has been granted custody of their children, who have gone to Oxford to live with him and the Parrish family.Episode 8
30th November 1979Episode 8
1915: Mark has returned to Penmarric with the Parrish children. Philip tries to blackmail Mark.Episode 9
7th December 1979Episode 9
1926: The demand for tin falls and the mine suffers critical setbacks. Mark decides to close Sennen Garth.Episode 10
14th December 1979Episode 10
1927: Mark has died, making Philip the unexpected heir to Penmarric. He and Helena have married.Episode 11
21st December 1979Episode 11
1932: Philip's relationship with Helena remains troubled. To Jan-Yves anger he has made Jonas, Rebecca's child, heir to Penmarric.Episode 12
28th December 1979Episode 12
1937: Helena and Philip are subsequently reconciled. Rebecca has accused Philip of assaulting Jonas. As a result, Philip alters his will and Jan-Yves is heir to Penmarric.Top Cast
Director
Tina Wakerell
Powerful and compelling, Penmarric is a sweeping, historic tale of unsuppressed passion and rampant ambition, desire and destruction, spanning three generations from Victorian England to the Second World War.
Set on the stormy coasts of Cornwall, Mark Castallack is the Master of Penmarric, a lost soul who finds love in the arms of Janna, an older woman and daughter of a local fisherman. The impact of their marriage on the family and community – and the dark secrets that surround it - sets off a chain of events that threatens all who cross the threshold of the grand house. The course is set towards a tragedy that will echo across time pitting husband against wife, father against son and brother against brother.
