Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice
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Format	miniseries
Starring	Elizabeth Garvie David Rintoul
Country of origin	UK
No. of episodes	5
Production
Running time	55 minutes (per episode)
Broadcast
Original channel	BBC1
Picture format	480i
Original airing	January 13, 1980

Pride and Prejudice is a 1980 BBC television serial, adapted by British novelist Fay Weldon from Jane Austen's novel of the same name, originally published in 1813.

This five-episode dramatisation stars Elizabeth Garvie as Elizabeth Bennet and David Rintoul as Mr. Darcy. It was broadcast in 1981 by PBS television as part of Masterpiece Theatre.

The novel has been the subject of numerous television and film adaptations — this was the fifth adaptation for the BBC. Other BBC television versions aired in 1938, 1952, 1958, 1967 and 1995.

Cast

• Elizabeth Garvie as Elizabeth Bennet
• David Rintoul as Fitzwilliam Darcy
• Peter Settelen as George Wickham
• Priscilla Morgan as Mrs. Bennet
• Moray Watson as Mr. Bennet
• Sabina Franklyn as Jane Bennet
• Natalie Ogle as Lydia Bennet
• Tessa Peake-Jones as Mary Bennet
• Clare Higgins as Kitty Bennet
• Osmund Bullock as Charles Bingley
• Marsha Fitzalan as Caroline Bingley
• Jennifer Granville as Mrs. Hurst
• Edward Arthur as Mr. Hurst
• Irene Richard as Charlotte Lucas
• Malcolm Rennie as Mr. Collins
• Elizabeth Stewart as Lady Lucas
• Peter Howell as Sir William Lucas
• Judy Parfitt as Lady Catherine de Bourgh
• Moir Leslie as Anne de Bourgh
• Emma Jacobs as Georgiana Darcy
• Desmond Adams as Colonel Fitzwilliam
• Shirley Cain as Mrs. Phillips
• Barbara Shelley as Mrs. Gardiner
• Michael Lees as Mr. Gardiner

External links

• Pride and Prejudice at AllRovi
• Pride and Prejudice at the Internet Movie Database

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