Masterpiece Theater

After the cunning Lawyer Wakem takes over a mill owned for centuries by the Tulliver family, daughter Maggie Tulliver adds insult to injury when she falls in love with Wakem's handsome son -- despite the fierce opposition of her brother Tom. This sparkling adaptation of George Eliot's beloved novel also stars Bernard Hill as Maggie's father and Lucy Whybrow as her cousin Lucy.

Based upon Wilkie Collins Victorian mystery, the gothic tale tells of a pair of half sisters whose lives end up caught in a grand conspiracy revolving around a mentally ill woman dressed in white. As the story unfolds, murder, love, marriage, and greed stand between the two women and happy lives. Their only hope is the secret the woman in white waits to tell them.