North and South is the story of friendship and valour.
Orry Main, a slave owner's son meets George Hazard on his way to West 
Point. George is the son of a North American iron manufacturor.
The tv-series is based on the famous novel by John Jakes.

Book 1, Episodes 1 through 6:
A short summary:

Episode 1:

Orry Main(Patrick Swayze) a Southerner and George Hazard(James Read) a 
Northerner meet and become friends while attending West Point; Orry 
falls desperately in lve with Madeline(Leslie-Anne Down) and is 
absolutely heartbroken when he finds out she's married cruel and
arrogant slave owner Justin LaMotte(David Carradine).
George and Orry find thenmselves under the command of Cadet 
Bent(Philip Casnoff) a man with no scruples.

Episode 2

George and Orry graduate from West Point just in time for the 
Mexican/American war. They are shocked to find themselves under the
command of Elkanah Bent(Philip Csnoff) who, banished from West Point
obtains a field commision through the use of blackmail. 
Orry inhures his leg during a suicide patrol, ordered by Elkanah Bent
and heads home, a different person; George gets engaged to Constance
Flynn(Wendy Kilbourne), daughter of army surgeon Colonel Patrick 
Flynn(Robert Mitchum).
Priam(David Harris) a slave on the Main plantation runs away.

Episode 3

While tensions between the North and the South heat up, Tillet 
Main(Mitchell Ryan) dies and Orry becomes master of Mont Royal, while
George marries Constance and becomes manager of Hazard Iron.
Charles Main(Lewis Smith) and Billy Hazard(John Stockwell) become 
friends and plan to attend West Poimt together.
Orry and Madeline can no longer deny their passion for each other.

Episode 4

In South Carolina, Virgilia(Kirstie Alley) encounters a slave 
named Grady(Georg Stanford Brown) and aids in his escape. They later
marry and take up residence in a Philadelphia shanty while pursuing
their abolitionist activities.
Justin LaMotte kills Madeline's faithful maid and then makes Madeline 
a prisoner in their home, making her escape with Orry impossible.
Charles and Billy graduate from West Point. Ashton's(Terry Garber)
indescretions result in pregnancy.

Episode 5

Ashton marries James Huntoon(Jim Metzler); George and Orry have an 
argument which threatens their friendship and prompts Orry to drown 
his sorrows in a bottle; Grady and Priam are killed at Harper's 
Ferry and Constance gives George the good news that they are going 
to have a baby.

Episode 6

Ashton is banished from her family after they learn of her elaborate, 
but failed scheme to have her sister's bethrothed killed.
Madeline escapes her jailer/husband, seeks refuge at Mont Royal and
is at last free to divorce and plan a future with Orry.
With war certain, Orry visits his friend George-a proud new father.
They bothe know it'll be long before they meet again.

Book 2, Episode 1 through 6

Episode 1

Upon the outbreak of the Civil War, Pennsylvanian George Hazard is
recommisiones in the Union Army while his friend and former West 
Point class mate, Orry Main becomes a Confederate General; Orry's 
amoral sister Ashton strikes up a war profeteering scheme with the
insidious elkanah Bent; and swaggerine Justin LaMotte mounts a raid 
to take back his wife Madeline from her beloved Orry.

Episode 2

As the Civil War rages, Confederate General Orry Main weds his beloved
Madeline; shares a bittersweet reunion with old friend Yankee
colonel George Hazardwho saves his life; and stages a raid on the 
illicit cargo stashed away by the profiteer Elkanah Bent and Orry's 
insidious sister Ashton.

Episode 3

On the battlefront at Antietam Creek in 1862, Confederate captain 
Charles Main confronts his friend and West Point classmate Billy 
Hazard. 
Later, after the battle of Gettysburg, Billy goes AWOL to see his 
wife Brett at the Mont Royal Plantation in South Carolina.
Here Brett's evil sister Ashton drives away Orry's wife, Madeline 
with the disclosure that Madeline is the daughter of a black 
prostitute.

Episode 4

General George Hazard is captured and jailed in a dreaded 
Confederate prison run by a brutal commandant(Wayne Newton) while
General Orry Main is wounded and tended to in a Northern hospital by
George's sister Virgilia.

Episode 5

While George shatters the dreams of power masteminded by Isabel
(Mary Crosby) and Stanley(Johnathan Frakes), Orry takes aim 
at the conspiracy against the Confederacymounted by his sister 
Ashton and her lover Elkanah Bent.

Episode 6

Bittersweet reunions and tragedy bafall both the Hazard and Main
families in the wake of the end of the Civil War, but the bond 
of friendship sealing George and Orry is reaffirmed.

Some Great Lines from 'North and South'- the tv-series.

(*)"When I was away at West Point, I kept thinkin' about comin' back here, and makin' you my bride."
Orry Main to Madeline, after she just married Justin LaMotte 

(*)"My name is Bent, Cadet Bent. And I, sirs, am your drill master. "
Elkanah Bent, his introduction to West Point plebes. 

(*)"You two have conspired, to rob me of a military career. A career I feel I am well suited for, more than any man at this
academy. I have friends in high places, and I one day, too, will be highly placed. And you can remember this, because I won't forget you two ever."
Elkanah Bent to Orry Main and George Hazard, after a prank of theirs resulted in Bent's dismissal from West Point. 

(*)"Alright Priam, run! Run, before I change my mind!"
Orry Main to Priam, after Priam, a slave, ran away from his father's plantation. 

(*)"Send him to his cabin! I know what we'd do with him at Resolute. "
Justin LaMotte, after Tillet Main was going to punish a drunken slave by sending him to his cabin. 

(*)"Go now or I'll shoot you where you stand for disobeying, a direct order, from a superior officer."
Elkanah Bent to Orry Main, after yelling an order that purposely and needlessly put Orry's life in danger. 

(*)"You see him as a nigger, I see him as a man who deserves to be free. "
Virgilia Hazard to Orry Main, regarding a slave she is helping to escape. 

(*)"All the slaves say your not fit to sleep with pigs, but I stick up for you. I tell them that you are."
Charles Main to Salem Jones, before a barroom brawl. 

(*)"Shut your mouth! Shut your mouth and get back to your nigger husband where you belong!"
Orry Main to Virgilia Hazard, after her continuous berating about the Southern slavery system.







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