Emma (TV Series 1972 - Episode 1)

Emma is 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. Audio in English with English subtitles (Click on CC).

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.

Episode 1: Emma Woodhouse has just attended the marriage of a dear friend and now fears that her own life will become boring & dull.

Cast & Characters:
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
Meg Gleed – Isabella Knightley
John Kelland – John Knightley
Belinda Tighe, Yves Tighe, Arran Tighe, Emma Horton – 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

Episode 2: https://rumble.com/v4ufnjk-emma-tv-series-1972-episode-2.html