A ship approaches port on the wild coast of North Cornwall in the early 1800s. A lighthouse keeper is surprised and murdered; the guiding light is doused; and the vessel is lured to smash itself upon the savage rocks... Mary Yellan's father is among the crew massacred by wreckers desperate to plunder the ship's cargo. When her mother dies of grief shortly afterwards Mary leaves her village to join her only surviving relative Aunt Patience in a lonely Inn on Bodmin Moor. Jamaica Inn she discovers is a secret headquarters for he wrecking gangs a staging post for salvaged... loot. But her Uncle Joss though a half-crazed murderer is not the ringleader... First broadcast in 1983 HTV's gorgeous production of Jamaica Inn stars Jane Seymour (Doctor Quinn) as the determined Mary Yellan Patrick McGoohan (The Prisoner) as her demented uncle Joss and Trevor Eve (Waking the Dead) as her ally Jem Merlyn. Adapted from Daphne du Maurier''-s perennial novel this three part serial is directed by the award-winning Lawrence Gordon Clark (Harry''-s Game). [show more]
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