Marchlands

Marchlands
Created by	David Schulner
Developed by	Gallowgate Productions & 20th Century Fox Television
Written by	Stephen Greenhorn
Directed by	James Kent
Starring	Jodie Whittaker Denis Lawson Tessa Peake-Jones Jamie Thomas King Alex Kingston Dean Andrews Anne Reid Shelley Conn
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language(s)	English
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	5 (list of episodes)
Production
Producer(s)	Chrissy Skinns
Running time	60 minutes (w/advertisements)
Production company(s)	ITV Studios 20th Century Fox Television
Release
Original network	ITV, STV, UTV
Original release	3 February – 3 March 2011
Chronology
Followed by	Lightfields (2013)
External links
Website

Lightfields
Created by	David Schulner
Developed by	Gallowgate Productions & 20th Century Fox Television
Written by	Simon Tyrrell
Directed by	Damon Thomas
Creative director(s)	Jane Dauncey
Starring	Kris Marshall Danny Miller Luke Newberry Sophie Thompson Danny Webb Michael Byrne Lucy Cohu Dakota Blue Richards Karla Crome Jill Halfpenny Sam Hazeldine Peter de Jersey
Theme music composer	Sam Johnson
Composer(s)	Michael Price
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language(s)	English
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	5 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Kate Lewis
Producer(s)	Cherry Gould
Location(s)	London
Cinematography	Tim Fleming
Camera setup	3SIXTYMEDIA
Running time	60 minutes (w/advertisements)
Production company(s)	ITV Studios 20th Century Fox Television
Distributor	ITV plc 21st Century Fox
Release
Original network	ITV, STV, UTV
Picture format	Widescreen
Original release	27 February – 27 March 2013
Chronology
Preceded by	Marchlands (2011)
Followed by	Kingfields (2016)

The Oaks Trilogy is a trilogy of British television series developed from the American television drama pilot The Oaks, written and created by David Schulner. Each of the three series; entitled Marchlands, Lightfields and Kingfields were created and broadcast on ITV1. Each series follows the same premise: across five episodes, the lives of three families, in different time periods, who all occupy the same house, which haunted by a restless spirit, are explored. The previous house owners also appear to their successors as ghosts.

Marchlands was first shown on ITV on 3 February 2011. It is the first series in the trilogy, and follows a story of three different families living in the same house in Yorkshire in three different time periods - 1968, 1987 and 2010. The three families are linked by the spirit of a young girl who died in mysterious circumstances in 1967.

In 1968, Ruth and Paul Bowen live in Marchlands with Paul's parents Robert and Evelyn. Six months earlier, Ruth and Paul's daughter Alice died, apparently in an accidental drowning, and Ruth is determined to find out the truth about what happened to her, believing there is more to Alice's death than she is being led to believe.

In 1987, Helen and Eddie Maynard rent Marchlands and live with their two children. They discover their daughter Amy has what seems to be an imaginary friend called Alice, which they initially try to ignore. After a series of suspiciously paranormal activities, matters become more serious when Amy blames Alice for the death of a kitten, leading to her parents sending Amy for medical tests.

In 2010, Mark Ashburn and partner Nisha Parekh move into Marchlands and find a photo of a young girl, who the viewers now know to be Alice. Nisha becomes suspicious that Mark has not told her the whole truth about why they have moved there. An elderly Ruth, who never came to terms with the death of her child and remains determined to find out what happened, returns to Marchlands when Mark employs her as a housekeeper and childminder after Nisha breaks her ankle when falling from a step-ladder.

The series was filmed on location in and around London, as well as on the Ashridge Estate, the village of Aldbury, and the surrounding village of Little Gaddesden. The house in which the main part of the story was filmed is in Tadworth, Surrey. Marchlands marks the first commission to come from the creative collaboration between ITV & Twentieth Century Fox. The Oaks writer David Schulner was heavily involved in the series' commission.

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