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Emma (1972 TV serial)

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Emma
Based onEmma
by Jane Austen
Written byDenis Constanduros
Directed byJohn Glenister
StarringDoran Godwin
John Carson
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of episodes6
Production
ProducerMartin Lisemore
Running time45 mins per episode
Original release
NetworkBBC2
Release20 July (1972-07-20) –
24 August 1972 (1972-08-24)

Emma was a six-part TV serial adaptation of Jane Austen's 1815 novel Emma by BBC Television that was broadcast in 1972.[1][2] It was directed by John Glenister.[3]

This dramatisation brings to life the wit and humour of Jane Austen's novel Emma, recreating the 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 finds that it is all too easy to confuse good intentions with self-gratification. Often insensitive, well-meaning and incorrigible, having engineered the marriage of her governess, companion and friend Miss Taylor, she now turns her attention towards making a match for the local vicar Mr Elton 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 but sometimes with real anger. Alongside, the lives of other characters proceed in ways not always understood by Emma, and she has many lessons to learn before the end of the story.

Cast and crew

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References

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  1. ^ "Emma: Part 1". BBC Genome. 20 July 1972. p. 35. Archived from the original on 22 June 2021. Retrieved 22 June 2021.
  2. ^ "Emma: Part 6". BBC Genome. 24 August 1972. p. 43. Archived from the original on 22 June 2021. Retrieved 22 June 2021.
  3. ^ "Emma Part 6 (1972)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 5 May 2019. Retrieved 22 June 2021.
  4. ^ "Meg Gleed". Archived from the original on 15 April 2021. Retrieved 22 June 2021.
  5. ^ "John Kelland". Archived from the original on 16 April 2021. Retrieved 22 June 2021.
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