Emma (1972 TV serial)

Jane Austen's novel Emma (1815) was transmitted as a six-part TV serial by BBC Television in 1972. It was directed by John Glenister.

Contents

• Emma 1972 episode 1 part 1 4
• Cast and crew
• References

This dramatization brings to life the wit and humour of Jane Austen's arguably finest novel Emma, recreating her most irritatingly endearing female character, of whom she wrote "no one but myself could like."

Emma presides over the small provincial world of Highbury with enthusiasm, but she will find that it is all too easy to confuse good intentions with self-gratification. The often insensitive, well-meaning, incorrigible Emma Woodhouse having engineered the marriage of governess, companion and friend Miss Taylor, now turns her attention towards making a match for Mr Elton, the local vicar, and her new protégée Harriet Smith. Her one voice of reason and restraint is Mr Knightley, who has known her since she was a child and who watches her behaviour with wry amusement and sometimes with real anger.

Cast and crew

Doran Godwin – Emma Woodhouse

John Carson – George Knightley

Donald Eccles – Mr Woodhouse

Constance Chapman – Miss Bates

Robert East – Frank Churchill

Ania Marson – Jane Fairfax

Ellen Dryden – Mrs Weston

Raymond Adamson – Mr Weston

Fiona Walker – Mrs Elton

Timothy Peters – Mr Elton

Debbie Bowen – Harriet Smith

John Alkin – Robert Martin

Mary Holder – Mrs Bates

Vivienne Moore – Williams

Amber Thomas – Patty

Hilda Fenemore – Mrs Cole

Norman Atkyns – Shop Assistant

Belinda Tighe – Isabella Knightley

Yves Tighe – John Knightley

The Tighe Family – The Knightley Children

Mollie Sugden – Mrs Goddard

Lala Lloyd – Mrs Ford

Marian Tanner – Betty Bickerton

Sam Williams – Gypsy Boy

Tom McCall, David Butt, Christopher Green – Musicians