Big Worlds On Small Screens: Rebecca Fisher Returns — & Discusses “Marchlands”

As we’ve just celebrated Halloween, it’s only fitting that my return to “Big Worlds on Small Screens” focus on a good old-fashioned ghost story. Marchlands aired back in 2011, a three-part miniseries that spans the lives of three different families living in the same house across five decades.

In 1960, Ruth Bowen is a grief-stricken mother mourning the death of her daughter, Alice. Though the police have deemed her drowning an accident, there are several strange inconsistencies in the story...