Wives and Daughters

Wives and Daughters (1999)

Drama

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.

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  • First Air Date: 1999-11-28
  • Last Air Date: 1999-12-19
  • Total Seasons: 1
  • Total Episodes: 6
  • Episode Runtime: 75 min.
  • Network: BBC One
  • Director: Nicholas Renton

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Seasons

  • Season 0

    2 Episodes

  • Season 1

    6 Episodes

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Cast

  • 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

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