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Wives and daughters / producer, Sue Birtwistle ; written by Andrew Davies ; directed by Nicholas Renton. , Great Britain United States - 3 videodiscs (308 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.. - BBC literary collection .

Based on the novel by Elizabeth Gaskell. Full screen 1.33:1. Features: making of, Who the dickens is Mrs. Gaskell?, Who's who : a guide to the stars.

Justine Waddell, Bill Paterson, Francesca Annis, Keeley Hawes, Tom Hollander.

Originally broadcast on British television in 1999.

Set in an early nineteenth-century, gossip-driven English town, seventeen-year-old Molly Gibson faces a world of change when her long-widowed physician father remarries.

TV rating: Not rated.


For private home use only.


In English with optional English subtitles.

Standard No.: 883929514700 00883929514700 gtin-14

Publisher. No.: 1000580540 BBC

LCCN: be2016006602

Subjects--Personal Names:
Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865 --Television adaptations.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Children of physicians--Drama.
Stepfamilies--Drama.
Young women--Drama.
Gossip--Drama.
Social classes--History--England--19th century--Drama.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Historical television programs.
Television adaptations.
Television mini-series.
Fiction television programs.