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Wives and daughters / producer, Sue Birtwistle ; written by Andrew Davies ; directed by Nicholas Renton.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: 1000580540 | BBCLanguage: English Original language: English Subtitle language: English Series: BBC literary collectionPublisher: [London] : BBC, [2016]Distributor: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2016]Description: 3 videodiscs (308 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
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  • video
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  • videodisc
Uniform titles:
  • Wives and daughters (Television program : 1999).
Related works:
  • Television adaptation of (work): Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865. Wives and daughters
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Cast: Justine Waddell, Bill Paterson, Francesca Annis, Keeley Hawes, Tom Hollander.Summary: 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.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Debuting November 28, 1999, over BBC1, the four-part British miniseries Wives and Daughters was the second of two TV adaptations of Elizabeth Gaskell's unfinished novel (the first aired in 1972). Set in the early 1800s, the story takes place in a small, gossip-driven English town. Upon the remarriage of her father, heroine Molly Gibson (Justine Waddell) isn't quite sure how to "take" to her modish stepmother, Hyacinth (Francesca Annis), and airheaded stepsister, Cynthia (Keeley Hawes). The fun really begins when both Molly and Cynthia fall in love with Roger Hamley (Anthony Howell), son of the village squire. Inasmuch as author Gaskell passed away before concocting a solution to this romantic triangle, it was up to screenwriter Andrew Davies to come up with a happy (or at least satisfying) denouement. In America, Wives and Daughters was seen as part of PBS' Masterpiece Theatre anthology beginning April 2, 2001. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Originally broadcast on British television in 1999.

In English with optional English subtitles.

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

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.

TV rating: Not rated.

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.

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