![]() Her secret partner, the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, ( John Heard) writhes in private torment as he deals with hiding his sin. Hester Prynne ( Meg Foster) is a young, Puritan woman who commits adultery while her husband is in Europe, and, upon the birth of her illegitimate child, is subsequently condemned to wear a scarlet "A" for the rest of her life. Hawthorne's themes, the nature of sin, social hypocrisy, and community repression, still reverberate through American society. Hester Prynne becomes stigmatized after committing adultery, and is doomed to live with the consequences forever. The result was this version of Hawthorne's enduring novel of Puritan America in search of its soul. In 1979, when most literary programs were being produced in the United Kingdom, Boston public television station WGBH decided to produce a homegrown literary classic of its own. Part 2 won the 1979 Emmy Award for Outstanding Video Tape Editing for a Limited Series or Special for film editors Ken Denisoff, Janet McFadden, and Tucker Wiard. The series is four episodes long, 60 minutes each. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Scarlet Letter is a 1979 miniseries based on the 1850 novel of the same name by Nathaniel Hawthorne: it aired on WGBH from Mato March 24, 1979. 1979 American TV series or program The Scarlet Letter ![]()
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