A three-part screen version of CONRAD RICHTER 'S
Pulitzer Prize-winning novel starring
Elizabeth Montgomery Hal Halbrook
Part 2: The Fields
With her father away for long periods on trading trips, Sayward Luckett , now married to Portius Wheeler , is the head of the family. More people have settled in the area and when Sayward gives a piece of Luckett land for a school, she starts a chain of events that almost destroys her marriage.
Teleplay by JAMES LEE BARRETT Produced by ROBERT E. RELYEA Directed by BORIS SAGAL
(Part 3 next Friday on BBC1)