Emma (1972 TV serial)

Emma
Based on	Emma by Jane Austen
Written by	Jane Austen (novel) Denis Constanduros (dramatization)
Directed by	John Glenister
Starring	Doran Godwin John Carson
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of episodes	6
Production
Producer	Martin Lisemore
Running time	45 mins per episode (excluding commercials)
Original release
Network	BBC2
Release	20 July – 24 August 1972

Emma was a six-part TV serial adaptation of Jane Austen's 1815 novel Emma by BBC Television that was broadcast in 1972. It was directed by John Glenister.

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

External links

• Emma at IMDb