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.
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Episode 1
After her brother is found being unfaithful, Anna Karenina persuades her sister-in-law not to leave him.
Episode 2
Army officer Vronsky falls in love with Anna, who returns to her husband, Karenin, and their son.
Episode 3
Anna returns Vronsky's feelings, and becomes pregnant with his child.
Episode 4
Count Alexei chides his wife Anna about her most recent disrespectful behavior then asks that she admit all that has been going on.
Episode 5
After a difficult birth to a baby girl, Anna flees with Vronsky without obtaining a divorce from Karenin.
Episode 6
Levin and Kitty marry and soon after, Kitty discovers that she is pregnant.
Episode 7
Anna and Vronsky return to Russia. After a furious Karenin sees Anna visiting their son, she and Vronsky leave.
Episode 8
Anna decides to marry Vronsky.
Episode 9
Anna commits suicide after becoming increasingly bitter towards Vronsky.
Episode 10
Karenin takes custody of Anna's baby girl, and Vronsky leaves to help fight the Turks in the Serbian revolt.
