| Genre: | Drama |
| Based On: | The Round Tower by Catherine Cookson |
| Director: | Alan Grint |
| Producer: | Ray Marshall |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
| Num Series: | 1 |
| Num Episodes: | 3 |
| Runtime: | 150 minutes (three episodes of 50 minutes) |
| Company: | Festival Films for Tyne Tees Television |
| Channel: | ITV |
The Round Tower is a British television serial of 1998, produced by Festival Films for Tyne Tees Television, directed by Alan Grint and based on the novel of the same name by Catherine Cookson.
In Newcastle-on-Tyne in the 1950s, Vanessa Ratcliffe (Emilia Fox) the 17-year-old convent school daughter of prosperous parents, has an affair and reveals that she is pregnant, but will not name the father. Angus Cotton (Ben Miles), the son of the Ratcliffes' housekeeper, who works as a supervisor at an engineering works owned by Jonathan Ratcliffe (Keith Barron), Vanessa's father, is wrongly blamed but is willing to take the blame. This throws the two together and leads to an ultimately happy outcome for both, including success for Cotton in business.[1] [2]