Season 1
- 1A Death in the Family30 Sep 1983
- 2The Legacy7 Oct 1983
- 3A Question of Judgement14 Oct 1983
- 4Vacant Possession21 Oct 1983
- 5The Homecoming28 Oct 1983
- 6Wound for Wound4 Nov 1983
The Outsider is a 6-part series about a London-based journalist, Frank Scully, visiting Yorkshire. Frank arrives in Wrathdale expecting to visit his friend Donald Harper for a few days en route to Scotland, where Frank plans to finally write his novel. But when the death of the Mickelthorpe Messenger's fire-and-brimstone editor leaves its new owner (his spinster sister Sybil Banner) in a lurch, Donald persuades Frank to stay on as temporary editor. Though initially reluctant, Frank is soon draw…