

Anna Karenina was a 1977 BBC television adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's novel & tragic story of the love affair between Vronsky, a Russian Count and Anna Karenina, a married upper class woman. Nicola Pagett takes the role of Anna, a young woman who is married to a man twenty years her senior (Eric Porter), and who begins a passionate affair with the handsome Count Vronsky (Stuart Wilson). When she falls pregnant, Anna decides to dissolve her marriage and wed Vronsky, but true happiness proves elusive.


Sep 25, 1977 - 50m
After her brother is found being unfaithful, Anna Karenina persuades her sister-in-law not to leave him.

Oct 2, 1977 - 50m
Army officer Vronsky falls in love with Anna, who returns to her husband, Karenin, and their son.

Oct 9, 1977 - 50m
Anna returns Vronsky's feelings, and becomes pregnant with his child.

Oct 16, 1977 - 50m
Count Alexei chides his wife Anna about her most recent disrespectful behavior then asks that she admit all that has been going on.

Oct 23, 1977 - 50m
After a difficult birth to a baby girl, Anna flees with Vronsky without obtaining a divorce from Karenin.

Oct 30, 1977 - 50m
Levin and Kitty marry and soon after, Kitty discovers that she is pregnant.

Nov 6, 1977 - 50m
Anna and Vronsky return to Russia. After a furious Karenin sees Anna visiting their son, she and Vronsky leave.

Nov 13, 1977 - 50m
Anna decides to marry Vronsky.

Nov 20, 1977 - 50m
Anna commits suicide after becoming increasingly bitter towards Vronsky.

Nov 27, 1977 - 50m
Karenin takes custody of Anna's baby girl, and Vronsky leaves to help fight the Turks in the Serbian revolt.