3 x 1 hr

Adapted for television by the Academy award-winning Downton Abbey creator, Julian Fellowes from one of his favourite novels by Anthony Trollope.

Doctor Thorne is a tale of envy, lust and greed, or arrogance and vanity and false values –... but mainly, hopefully, of love.

The drama centres on the story of Dr Thorne (Tom Hollander: Rev, Any Human Heart) a gentleman doctor living in the village of Greshamsbury with his beautiful young niece, Mary, a girl blessed with every gift except money. Mary has grown up alongside the Gresham sisters and their handsome brother – whose home is the great house and estate at Greshamsbury Park.

When terrifying Lady Arabella Gresham (Rebecca Front: Humans, Lewis) discovers that her darling son has fallen in love with Dr Thorne’s penniless niece, she is horrified. Her husband has frittered away the family fortune and is only being kept afloat by loans from railway millionaire, Sir Roger Scatcherd, (Ian McShane: Ray Donovan, The Pillars of the Earth). However Sir Roger is drinking himself into an early grave and the family’s future may lay with his unreliable son Louis .

Believing it’s her son’s duty to make a rich marriage to save the family estate, Lady Arabella launches a campaign to secure her son an heiress for a bride.

Also starring Richard McCabe (Indian Summers, Peaky Blinders), Phoebe Nicholls (Fortitude, Downton Abbey), Gwyneth Keyworth (Game of Thrones, Misfits), Kate O’Flynn (No Offence, Ordinary Lies), Danny Kirrane (Critical, Trollied), Janine Duvitski (Little Dorrit) and introducing newcomers Stefanie Martini (Prime Suspect 1973) and Harry Richardson (Poldark).
Directed by Niall MacCormick (Long Walk to Finchley, Complicit, The Game)
Produced by Helen Gregory (Case Histories, Cider with Rosie).
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Starring: Tom Hollander, Rebecca Front, Ian McShane, Harry Richardson, Stefanie Martini

Writers: Julian Fellowes

Produced By: Hat Trick Productions

Broadcaster: ITV | Year of Production: 2015