Broadcast: Feb. 5-April 9, 1978. Centering on a doomed extra-marital affair, Anna Karenina paints a portrait of the social and political fabric of upper-class Russia in the 1870's. Anna is married to Karenin, a convention-bound, austere husband. Into her life comes Count Vronsky and their affair leads to the dissolution of her marriage and a tragic end.
