Plotlands

BBC One Ended Drama

1 Season · 6 Episodes · Premiered May 18, 1997 · Ended June 22, 1997

Period drama serial. In the 1920's, Londoner Chloe Marsh (to escape her abusive husband) takes her two daughters and tries to start a new life on a new style housing estate where you buy a plot of land (for five pounds) and build your own house.

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Seasons & Episodes

Season 1

6 episodes
E01
Chloe
Sun, May 18 1997 7:30 PM GMT+0000 50 min
When Londoner Chloe Marsh sees a poster advertising plots of land for sale for only five pounds, she decides to run away from her abusive husband, taking her two children with her. However he dream of a new start is not quite as as she anticipated with her and her girls having to make do with a tent as a home.
E02
Rory
Sun, May 25 1997 7:30 PM GMT+0000 50 min
Harry Crowley, the man responsible for the Plotlands development, gives Chloe a job cleaning for him, meanwhile the Mulligans, Chloes Irish next door neighbours are definitely facing a trying time.
E03
Tom
Sun, Jun 1 1997 7:30 PM GMT+0000 50 min
Tom, who lives on the edge of the Plotlands development and acts as a kind of a caretaker, has a secret from his past life during world war one when a former comrade turned crook turns up.
E04
Orphans of the Storm
Sun, Jun 8 1997 7:30 PM GMT+0000 50 min
A violent storm occurs bringing trouble for the community, a depressed Harriet then goes missing causing an all out search. Chloe and Tom seem to drawing closer together.
E05
The Party
Sun, Jun 15 1997 7:30 PM GMT+0000 50 min
It being the first anniversary of the first plot of land sold Crowley decides to throw a party, but Crowley has a secret agenda and is planning to sell off Langton Field(the Plotlands development) making everyone homeless.
E06
Home for Heroes
Sun, Jun 22 1997 7:30 PM GMT+0000 50 min
Chloe and her children are beginning to settle in and Chloe's relationship with Tom is progressing but then Chloe's husband John appears on the scene demanding his marital rights, thanks to Tom he soon learns the way things now stand and the whole Plotlands community rally round to help the Mulligans finish their house.
David Ryall
David Ryall as Harry Crowley
Philip Whitchurch
Philip Whitchurch as Billy Reed
Richard Lintern
Richard Lintern as Tom Marsh
Rebecca Callard
Rebecca Callard as Harriet Marsh
Amanda Abbington
Amanda Abbington as Maude
Jade Williams as Joan Marsh
Saskia Reeves
Saskia Reeves as Chloe Marsh

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