Wives and Daughters (1999)
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Cast & Crew.
Justine Waddell
Molly Gibson
Rosamund Pike
Lady Harriet Cumnor
Keeley Hawes
Cynthia Kirkpatrick
Iain Glen
Mr. Preston
Barbara Flynn
Miss Browning
Anthony Howell
Roger Hamley
Francesca Annis
Hyacinth Gibson
Bill Paterson
Mr. Gibson
Michael Gambon
Squire Hamley
Tom Hollander
Osborne Hamley
Deborah Findlay
Miss Phoebe
Penelope Wilton
Mrs. Hamley
Richard Coyle
Mr. Coxe
Jemima Rooper
Lizzie Goodenough
Anna Maguire
Young Molly
Richard Dempsey
Mr. Bold
Elizabeth Spriggs
Mrs. Goodenough
Janey Fothergill
Casting
Nicholas Renton
Director
Rowena Wilkinson
Foley Artist
Lisa Westcott
Makeup Designer
Fred Tammes
Director of Photography
Ian Wilkinson
Sound Editor
Wayne Brooks
Foley Editor
Karen Edwards
Makeup Artist
Deirdre Clancy
Costume Design
Sarah Grispo
Makeup & Hair
Kevin Lester
Editor
Demelza Rogers
Makeup Artist
Mark Kebby
Art Direction
John Collins
Art Direction
Peter Brill
Sound Recordist
Media.
Details.
Release DateNovember 28, 1999
StatusEnded
Seasons1
Episodes6
Running Time1h 15m
Genres
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Wives and Daughters is a 1999 four-part BBC serial adapted from the 1864 novel Wives and Daughters: An Everyday Story by Victorian author Elizabeth Gaskell.
The series was a joint production of the BBC and WGBH Boston, an American public broadcast station and 'won high audience ratings' when it first screened in the UK in 1999. Its audience rivalry with an adaptation of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, screened on ITV at the same time, was dubbed 'the battle of the bonnets'. It appeared in the USA on BBC America in August 2000 and was later shown on PBS.
It focuses on Molly Gibson (Justine Waddell), 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 (Francesca Annis) who is 'too vain and shallow to care for anything beyond her improved social status'. Also a flirtatious stepsister, Cynthia (Keeley Hawes), while a friendship with the local squire brings about an unexpected romance. A New York Times review of the series in 2001 said 'The entire cast gets the characters right.'
Written by Andrew Davies, produced by Sue Birtwistle and directed by Nicholas Renton, the programme also features Michael Gambon, Penelope Wilton, Bill Paterson and Rosamund Pike.