The Oaks Trilogy
Appearance
Marchlands | |
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Directed by | James Kent |
Written by | Stephen Greenhorn |
Produced by | Chrissy Skinns |
Starring | Jodie Whittaker Denis Lawson Tessa Peake-Jones Jamie Thomas King Alex Kingston Dean Andrews |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Marchlands is an ITV drama first shown on ITV1 in the United Kingdom on February 3, 2011, telling the story of three different families living in the same house at three different time periods, in 1968, 1987 and 2010. The three families are linked by the spirit of a young girl who died in mysterious circumstances in 1967. The first episode has the appearance of a ghost story spanning three different time periods and generations in a single house in Yorkshire.
Marchlands marks the first commission to come from the creative collaboration between ITV & Twentieth Century Fox. It is based on the US Fox network series The Oaks first broadcast in the US in 2008.
Cast
- Jodie Whittaker as Ruth Bowen (1968)
- Denis Lawson as Robert Bowen (1968)
- Tessa Peake-Jones as Evelyn Bowen (1968)
- Jamie Thomas King as Paul Bowen (1968)
- Alex Kingston as Helen Maynard (1987)
- Dean Andrews as Eddie Maynard (1987)
- Ethan Griffin as Scott Maynard (1987)
- Sydney Wade as Amy Maynard (1987)
- Shelley Conn as Nisha Parekh (2010)
- Elliot Cowan as Mark Ashburn (2010)
- Anne Reid as Ruth Bowen (2010)
- Millie Archer as Alice