Season 3 - Episode Guide

It is early summer in the secluded seaside village of Betworthy. But there is a strained atmosphere in the once-prosperous Maitland household, because the family has fallen on hard times.

Hedda is so exasperated with her acceptance of a narrow bourgeois marriage that she makes a drastic decision about her life.

Archie Rice, a drunken, lecherous, egotistical vaudevillian whose act is on the downward slope.

De Flores, the "ominous ill-fac'd fellow" is led by his desire for the imperious virgin Beatrice Joanna into murder and adultery.