The Outsider
Frank Scully, an out-of-work journalist, goes to stay for a few days with friends Donald and Sylvia Harper in Micklethorpe, a small town in the Yorkshire Dales. Miss Banner, the deeply-religious new owner of the local newspaper, asks him to stay on as editor of the paper. Frank unwittingly revives long-dead local scandals when he innocently publishes a series of anonymous articles that Miss Banner has written. Matters are further complicated when he becomes involved in a love triangle with Sylvia Harper and Fiona Neave, who owns the company that prints the newspaper - and Miss Banner threatens to use her column to reveal some very compromising details about Fiona.
- 1983-1983
- 1 season
- Drama
Frank Scully, an out-of-work journalist, goes to stay for a few days with friends Donald and Sylvia Harper in Micklethorpe, a small town in the Yorkshire Dales. Miss Banner, the deeply-religious new owner of the local newspaper, asks him to stay on as editor of the paper. Frank unwittingly revives long-dead local scandals when he innocently publishes a series of anonymous articles that Miss Banner has written. Matters are further complicated when he becomes involved in a love triangle with Sylvia Harper and Fiona Neave, who owns the company that prints the newspaper - and Miss Banner threatens to use her column to reveal some very compromising details about Fiona.
Season 1 Episode Guide
6 Episodes 1983
Episode 1
A Death in the Family
60 mins
Out of work journalist Frank Scully is invited to Micklethorpe by his old friend Donald Harper. Local newspaper editor John Wesley has just died and his sister wants a temporary editor so Donald recommends Frank Scully.
Episode 2
The Legacy
60 mins
Lord Wrathdale makes his attentions known, about buying the Messenger, for Fiona Lytton Neave but John Wesley Banner has left her £30,000 in his will. Mrs Banner ruffles feathers when she gives Scully the will to print in the Messenger.
Episode 3
A Question of Judgement
60 mins
Miss Banner uses her role as Chroncler to stir up trouble from the past. Using fake names she accuses Jack Jefford of killing a tramp at Hightop Farm. While he and Alan Metcalf destroyed Ted Watkins life so he could marry Irene.
Episode 4
Vacant Possession
60 mins
Fiona is puzzled by two pictures of herself, as a child, found in the office safe of John Wesley Banner. Shocked by Banner leaving her money in his Will, she asks Lord Wrathdale to leave his wife and make a new start but he declines.
Episode 5
The Homecoming
60 mins
An advertiser pulls out the Messenger as part of the fall out of Fiona's unwanted inheritance. Lady Wrathdale's returns, from Italy, to stir up trouble. Befriending Sylvia she tells her that Fiona is the daughter of husband's mistress.
Episode 6
Wound for Wound
60 mins
Frank learns of Fiona's parentage from Sylvia and must face some difficult choices.