Part 4 of 7 of the 1982 TV period drama. Determined to wile his way into Eleanor's affections, Odadiah Slope plots to reinstate Septimus Harding as warden of the hospital. But his plans meet an unexpected obstacle in Septimus himself, and Slope discovers that the formidable Mrs Proudie is not one to let her own ambitions be thwarted, setting up a power struggle within the sleepy community of Barchester...
Starring Donald Pleasence, Geraldine McEwan, Nigel Hawthorne, Alan Rickman, Janet Maw, Barbara Flynn, Peter Blythe, Susan Edmonstone, Susan Hampshire, Clive Swift, Jonathan Adams, Maggie Jones, William Redgrave and Angela Pleasence.