Tue, Sep 25, 1962
Henry Hobson runs a successful boot-maker's shop in nineteenth-century Salford. A widower with a weakness for the pub opposite, he tries forcefully to run the lives of his three unruly daughters. When he decrees 'no marriages' to avoid the expensive matter of settlements, eldest daughter Maggie rebels and sets her sights on Will Mossop, Hobson's star boot-maker. Maggie and Will leave to start up in competition, and she then turns her mind to helping her sisters marry their chosen partners.
Tue, Apr 16, 1963
Buttterfly collector turns out to have a killer streak when it is revealed by his wife that he prizes an undistinguished species in his collection not for its beauty but because it is the first one he killed and preserved himself. Family rivalry between his young son and daughter come to a crisis when the Brimstone Butterfly is destroyed and the father suspects and punishes his son, but more complex issues arise, with much more serious consequences.
Tue, May 21, 1963
Lizzie Curry is on the verge of becoming a hopeless old maid. Her wit and intelligence and skills as a homemaker can't make up for the fact that she's just plain plain! Even the town sheriff, File, for whom she harbors a secret yen, won't take a chance --- until the town suffers a drought and into the lives of Lizzie and her brothers and father comes one Bill Starbuck ... profession: Rainmaker!