The Rector's Wife

Name: The Rector's Wife
Released: 1994
Rating: 9.0

1994 · TV · Latest ep Mar 25, 1994

65 min per episode English Miniseries Ended

2 votes

Drama

Three-part dramatization of the novel by Joanna Trollope. A clergyman's wife shocks the church establishment and infuriates her husband by taking a job in a supermarket. She attracts the passionate interest of three very different men: a newly-appointed archdeacon; his younger brother, a…

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Cast, directors & writers

Lindsay Duncan

Anna Bouverie

Jonathan Coy

Peter Bouverie

Miles Anderson

Patrick O'Sullivan

Simon Fenton

Luke Bouverie

Rynagh O'Grady

Ella Pringle

Ronald Pickup

Daniel Byrne

Gabrielle Lloyd

Isobel Thomson

Stephen Dillane

Jonathan Byrne

Prunella Scales

Marjorie Richardson

Pam Ferris

Eleanor Ramsay

Orla Brady

Sister Josephine

Mary Roscoe

Fergus's Wife

Isobel Raine

Alison

Thomas Bradford

Barnaby

Giles Foster

Director

Joanna Trollope

Writer

Hugh Whitemore

Writer

Keywords

adultery based on novel or book miniseries church english village bored housewife

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