[Tery]

Hi everyone!

"North and South" was a popular tv series made in 1985. based on John Jakes' best selling novel.

Here's the plot summary:

Two teenage boys; Orry Main from South Carolina and George Hazard from Pennsylvania, meet on their ways to military accademy in West Point. Very soon, they become the best friends ever. In the Academy they spend lots of time together and together make the biggest enemy; Elkanah Bent. After graduation, they go for a war with Mexico, where Orry gets hurt really bad, but is saved by George. When they return homes, they don't give up on their friendship - their families spend summer together, their sibillings falls in love, they become business-partners etc. But the situation in the country is not getting better, also not all the family members and neighbours like the idea of people from North and South being friends. In December 1860, South Carolina leaves Union. The war is much closer then it has ever been. It starts at a spring, 1861. George and Orry must fight against each other ...

The cast:

Patrick Swayze .... Orry Main
James Read .... George Hazard
Lesley-Anne Down .... Madeline Fabray LaMotte
Wendy Kilbourne .... Constance Flynn Hazard
Kirstie Alley .... Virgilia Hazard
Jean Simmons .... Clarissa Main
Terri Garber .... Ashton Main Huntoon
Genie Francis .... Brett Main Hazard
Philip Casnoff .... Elkanah Bent
Lewis Smith .... Charles Main
John Stockwell .... Billy Hazard
David Carradine .... Justin LaMotte
Inga Swenson .... Maude Hazard
Jonathan Frakes .... Stanley Hazard
Wendy Fulton .... Isabel Truscott Hazard



Anyone watch it?

[*Maxi*]

I watched every episode religiously. Loved it back in the day! Bought the VHS-tapes years ago, and I'm highly tempted to replace them with DVDs

[ChiltonYale]

Kirstie Alley was great in this series.

[GooGooGaGa]

Aww! Of course I did watch the show. It was broadcasted every Sunday in Italy many many many years ago. I liked it very much, and I immediately fell for the Northern guy, James Read/George Hazard.