Season 2
5 episodes
45 min. per episode
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A foreign doctor confronts prejudice and unexpected friendships, transforming a tight-knit mining community through compassion and humor.
Episodes
A year later Prem and Kamini welcome her mother Pushpa from India. She is shocked that the couple give respite to Dan Griffiths when father Owen goes on a bender, and mind receptionist Gina's baby Nye since Tom left to live in London. On the same train is Megan, returned from visiting her son, and local policeman Emlyn is smitten with her. The village has a new vicar, zealous ex-missionary Herbert Todd, whose wife has left him to look after rebellious teenaged daughter Verity, and who refuses baptism of Nye as his parents are not married. Whilst Todd is giving a slide show of his time in Africa, Dan falls ill with smallpox, but thinking he is in trouble, he runs away.
Prem locates Dan and puts him in an old isolation ward as the village is cordoned off from the outside world and the pit, pub and shop closed to prevent the spread of contagion. Vaccine arrives from Cardiff but there is an insufficient supply and, whilst Verity flirts with local rugby captain Dafydd, her father refuses an inoculation, claiming that faith will save him, and sits by Dan's bedside, risking his life. Owen accuses Pushpa of being the carrier, but she says that she was vaccinated in India, and the source of the disease remains a mystery.
An inaccurate radio report claiming that the epidemic is over and Todd's appearance with a cured Dan, claiming the boy was healed by God, throw the simple villagers into a false sense of security, believing the danger is passed. Quarrelsome Mr. and Mrs. Rogers arrive with the vaccination unit but, misled by Todd, no villagers except Owen and Megan volunteer to be immunized. Megan is upset that a love letter given her by heart-sore Emlyn was written with the aid of Prem as she still has feelings for the doctor, but later softens towards the policeman. Todd baptizes Nye but, given the poor response to vaccination, Mr. and Mrs. Rogers prepare to leave the village. However Prem is vindicated when another local lad falls victim to smallpox.
Todd catches Verity kissing Dafydd and throws him out. Soon after the young man falls ill with the smallpox. A few villagers volunteer for vaccination but many feel they are safe and refuse. With food stocks running low Megan and Emlyn grow closer when they pick up supplies from outside, and Kamini enlists the help of local farmer Ceri. Dafydd's wife Mary brings her baby, also infected, to Prem but the child dies, reminding Kamini of the loss of her own daughter. After Pushpa expresses confidence in him, Prem manages to get all of Trefelin inoculated except the Todds, and the vicar turns him away from the house even though Verity is also ill.
With the smallpox under control Prem is still unable to locate its source. Verity disappears but Prem tracks her down, persuading Todd to finally allow her to be treated. A confession from Dan leads to Prem discovering the source of the disease - it was carried in robes brought back from Africa by Todd, who had survived smallpox there and kept quiet to the village about it. Emlyn proposes to Megan, and Pushpa, who had previously feared that Prem was making her daughter miserable, realizes that they are extremely happy and that Kamini supports her husband all the way.
In a comedy-drama set in the 1960s, a South Wales coal mining community is changed forever following the death of the local doctor, whose replacement comes as quite a shock to the villagers.