Wives and Daughters

Wives and Daughters (1999)


  • Genre: Drama
  • First Air Date: 1999-11-28
  • Last Air Date: 1999-12-19
  • Total Seasons: 1
  • Total Episodes: 6
  • Status: Ended
  • Episode Runtime: 75 min.
  • Production Company: GBH
  • Network: BBC one
  • Director:
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From 33 Ratings

Summary

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 (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) and flirtatious stepsister, Cynthia (Keeley Hawes), while a friendship with the local squire brings about an unexpected romance.

  • Keywords: sibling relationship, england, loss of loved one, based on novel or book, parent child relationship, country life, ship, stepmother, marriage, family relationships, miniseries, doctor, period drama, gossip, death, aristocrat, estate, rite of passage, secret marriage, stepsister, 19th century, darwinism

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    Wives and Daughters Seasons

    Season 0

    First Air Date:
    2 Episodes

    Season 1

    First Air Date: 1999-11-28
    6 Episodes

    Wives and Daughters Episodes

    Title Air Date Duration
    Season 1Episode 1Episode 175 min
    Season 1Episode 2Episode 280 min
    Season 1Episode 3Episode 375 min
    Season 1Episode 4Episode 480 min

    • 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

    • Richard Coyle

      as Mr. Coxe

    • Jemima Rooper

      as Lizzie Goodenough

    • Anna Maguire

      as Young Molly

    • Richard Dempsey

      as Mr. Bold

    • Elizabeth Spriggs

      as Mrs. Goodenough
    Directing Nicholas Renton Director
    Production Janey Fothergill Casting
    Production Rebecca Eaton Executive Producer
    Production Sue Birtwistle Producer
    Writing Andrew Davies Writer
    Production Rupert Ryle-Hodges Producer
    Production Jane Tranter Executive Producer
    Sound John E. Keane Original Music Composer
    Camera Fred Tammes Director of Photography
    Editing Kevin Lester Editor
    Art Gerry Scott Production Design
    Art John Collins Art Direction
    Art Mark Kebby Art Direction
    Art Caroline Smith Set Decoration
    Costume & Make-Up Deirdre Clancy Costume Design
    Costume & Make-Up Karen Edwards Makeup Artist
    Costume & Make-Up Sarah Grispo Makeup & Hair
    Costume & Make-Up Lesley Smith Makeup Artist
    Costume & Make-Up Lisa Westcott Makeup Designer
    Costume & Make-Up Demelza Rogers Makeup Artist
    Sound Peter Brill Sound Recordist
    Sound Wayne Brooks Foley Editor
    Sound Ian Wilkinson Sound Editor
    Sound Rowena Wilkinson Foley Artist
    Writing Elizabeth Gaskell Novel

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