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All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Simon Ward, ranked
When the quiet Little Vestry of St. Matthew’s Church becomes the blood-soaked scene of a double murder, Scotland Yard Commander Adam Dalgliesh faces an intriguing conundrum: How did an upper-crust Minister come to lie, slit throat to slit throat, next to a neighborhood derelict of the lowest order?
The rich Earnshaw family adopts the young orphan Heathcliff, who thereafter relocates to their mansion, Wuthering Heights. The new resident quickly develops feelings for his sympathetic foster sister, Cathy. When Cathy feels the burden of social convention, she suppresses her affections and marries Edgar Linton, a wealthy man who is appropriate for her stature, breaking what seems to be an unbreakable relationship between the two. Heathcliff swears he’ll get her back.
In 1937, newly qualified vet James Herriot travels to Yorkshire for the post of assistant in Siegfried Farnon’s practice. He learns the facts of country life, but has to overcome the prejudices of the Darrowby locals who are sceptical of the novice vet’s ability. In between cases, Herriot courts farmer’s daughter Helen Alderson.
In 1937, newly qualified vet James Herriot travels to Yorkshire for the post of assistant in Siegfried Farnon’s practice. He learns the facts of country life, but has to overcome the prejudices of the Darrowby locals who are sceptical of the novice vet’s ability. In between cases, Herriot courts farmer’s daughter Helen Alderson.