Wives and Daughters
tv show
6 total episodes
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1 seasons
First Aired November 28, 1999
Genres:
Overview
Wives and Daughters is a 1999 four part BBC serial adapted from the novel Wives and Daughters: An Everyday Story by Victorian author Elizabeth Gaskell. It focuses on Molly Gibson, the daughter of the town doctor, and the changes that occur in her life after her widowed father chooses to remarry. The union brings into her once-quiet life an ever-proper stepmother and flirtatious stepsister, Cynthia, while a friendship with the local squire brings about an unexpected romance.
Season 1
6 episodes
Air Date
November 28, 1999
Cast
Justine Waddell
as
Molly Gibson
Rosamund Pike
as
Lady Harriet Cumnor
Keeley Hawes
as
Cynthia Kirkpatrick
Iain Glen
as
Mr. Preston
Barbara Flynn
as
Miss Browning
Anthony Howell
as
Roger Hamley
Francesca Annis
as
Hyacinth Gibson
Bill Paterson
as
Mr. Gibson
Michael Gambon
as
Squire Hamley
Tom Hollander
as
Osborne Hamley
Deborah Findlay
as
Miss Phoebe
Penelope Wilton
as
Mrs. Hamley