Adam Smith
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Adam Smith

8.5 / 10 · 2 votes
1972
2 seasons
4 episodes
Drama

A religious drama series in which a Scots minister, following his wife's death, questions the purpose of his local ministry but finds it in his spiritual work for the community.

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Seasons

  • Ep 1

    1.Episode 1

    23-01-1972

    Adam Smith is at a crisis point in his life. His wife Mary has died; it is the day of the funeral. Grief-stricken, Adam must now begin to pick up the pieces and search for a new ro...

  • Ep 2

    2.Episode 2

    30-01-1972

    'You cannot separate body and spirit.. If the spirit is not my province, what in the name of God is?' Annie finds a young local girl, Margaret Carus, suffering an asthma attack and...

  • Ep 3

    3.Episode 3

    06-02-1972

    Having already clashed with Dr. Calvi over the plight of Margaret Carus, Adam turns detective to try to piece together her life story - starting with the local school. He is determ...

  • Ep 4

    4.Episode 4

    13-02-1972

    Adam is called in to help mend the marriage of David and Elizabeth Crichton. The call comes from an unlikely source: Dr. Andrew Calvi, usually the minister's harshest critic. The m...

  • Ep 5

    5.Episode 5

    20-02-1972

    Following his attendance at a committee meeting Adam becomes involved in a protest against bad housing in Edinburgh. The complaint had been raised by Jamie Laidlaw and received lit...

  • Ep 6

    6.Episode 6

    27-02-1972

    David Crichton is in Edinburgh. Elizabeth has disappeared. Why, then, is there a light in the Crichtons' home at midnight? Adam goes to investigate, and finds a stranger in the hou...

  • Ep 7

    7.Episode 7

    05-03-1972

    Steven stays on at the manse and makes a sculpture for Margaret. When Annie arrives home in Lammerton unexpectedly, she not only brings the number of fugitives in Adam's care to th...

  • Ep 8

    8.Episode 8

    12-03-1972

    Trouble among Irish labourers leads Adam to press for better working conditions at a nearby construction site. The local Roman Catholic priest feels that the men need special eveni...

  • Ep 9

    9.Episode 9

    19-03-1972

    Adam tells Helen she must leave. A desperately unhappy Elizabeth returns; now almost an alcoholic, she has crashed her car. Adam expresses concern, and she promises to keep in touc...

  • Ep 10

    10.Episode 10

    26-03-1972

    Adam's persistence is rewarded when Elizabeth's family finally comes to him in the kirk to ask for help. Can Adam persuade Elizabeth, in all her bitterness, that life is really wor...

  • Ep 11

    11.Episode 11

    02-04-1972

    John Ross, Adam's oldest friend in Lammerton, is dying, and Adam must now find the strength to comfort him. But Ross, it seems, has strength enough for two. While applying for a jo...

  • Ep 12

    12.Episode 12

    09-04-1972

    Adam has decided to move on, and has to preach to the congregation at Marygate before they 'offer him the charge'. And the entire congregation turns out to see the new minister

  • Ep 13

    13.Episode 13

    16-04-1972

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