Series

Mansfield Park

1983 · 1 season · 6 episodes · Ended · BBC Two

Drama

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Mansfield Park is a British six-part television drama serial based on Jane Austen's 1814 novel of the same name. Produced by the BBC and adapted by Kenneth Taylor, it stars Sylvestra Le Touzel as Fanny Price, who is sent to live with her wealthy relatives, the Bertrams, where she is treated poorly by most except her cousin Edmund. Her life is complicated by the arrival of the worldly Mary and Henry Crawford.

Episodes

  • S01E01Episode One1983-11-0650m

    10-year-old Fanny Price is shipped from her large and impoverished family to live with wealthier relatives, where she's raised as a second-class citizen.

  • S01E02Episode Two1983-11-1350m

    Fanny has grown up to be an indispensable member of the household at Mansfield Park. During Sir Thomas's absence abroad, the glamorous Crawfords from London stay in the neighbourhood, to the delight of almost everyone.

  • S01E03Episode Three1983-11-2050m

    Tom and the others want to perform a play in the billiard room but Edmund is against it as their father, still absent, wouldn't care for it.

  • S01E04Episode Four1983-11-2750m

    Henry decides to make a play for Fanny, whose brother William drops by on leave from the Navy, and, with both daughters gone, Sir Thomas throws a ball for Fanny.

  • S01E05Episode Five1983-12-0450m

    Henry would marry Fanny. To this end he's seen to William's promotion in the Navy, but Fanny will have none of him.

  • S01E06Episode Six1983-12-1150m

    As Fanny visits her parents, calamity befalls the Bertrams: Henry runs off with Maria, Tom lies sick with fever and abandoned by his friends, and Edmund glimpses Mary's true character.

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