The Stepford Children The Stepford Children The Stepford Children is a 1987 American made-for-television science fiction-thriller film inspired by the Ira Levin novel "The Stepford Wives". It was directed by Alan J. Levi with a screenplay by Bill Bleich and starring Barbara Eden, Don Murray, Tammy Lauren, Randall Batinkoff and Pat Corley. It is the second in a series of sequels inspired by the 1972 novel and the original 1975 film "The Stepford Wives". Laura and Steven Harding (Barbara Eden and Don Murray) move with their children to the town of Stepford, Connecticut where Steven had lived with his first wife who had
The Woman in White (novel) her fortune of £20,000 (then an enormous sum of money) by default falls to her husband on her death. This provides the motive for the conspiracy of her unscrupulous husband and his co-conspirator Fosco. In his later "Man and Wife", Collins portrays another victim of the law's partiality, who takes a terrible revenge on her husband. The novel was first published in serial form in 1859–60, appearing in Charles Dickens' magazine "All the Year Round" (UK) and "Harper's Weekly" (USA). It was published in book form in 1860. The novel was extremely successful commercially, but contemporary critics were generally hostile.