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Cranford is a TV series that adapts three stories by Elizabeth Gaskell, set in a rural market-town in the 1840s. It features a cast of famous British actors, such as Judi Dench, Imelda Staunton and Julia McKenzie, and won four Primetime Emmys.
Find out who played the characters in Cranford, a British drama series based on Elizabeth Gaskell's novels. See the full list of actors, directors, writers and producers, including Judi Dench, Imelda Staunton, Julia McKenzie and more.
In June 1842, Mary Smith arrives in Cranford to stay with her mother's friends Miss Matty and Miss Deborah Jenkyns. Cranford is a small town, on the edge of modernization. The railway now reaches Manchester and there is much change in the air.
A four-part drama series based on Elizabeth Gaskell's classic novel, set in a fictional market town in England in the 1840s. The story follows the lives and challenges of the town's single and widowed women as they face social changes and the arrival of the railway.
It's August 1844 and Miss Matty knows only too well that faces will always come and go in Cranford, but for now she is happy that her dear brother, Peter is home from India and that Martha, Jem and baby Tilly make for a lively household.
Upon Mary's arrival in Cranford at the very beginning of the first episode we witness the trials, successes and failures of just about everyone within Cranford's fold. Overseeing most of Cranford's wealth is Lady Ludlow (Francesca Annis) who often delivers swift and hard decisions on the town but softens as time goes by.
In the 1840s, Cranford is ruled by the ladies. They adore good gossip, and romance and change is in the air, as the unwelcome grasp of the Industrial Revolution rapidly approaches their beloved rural market-town.
Mary Smith flees a crisis at home in Manchester to stay with two spinster sisters, Deborah and Matty Jenkyns, in the small, rural town of Cranford. A new young doctor, Frank Harrison, is brought to Cranford thehelp the existing Doctor and is the talk of the town.
The three novels were "Cranford", "Mr. Harrison's Confessions", and "My Lady Ludlow". Birtwistle and her co-Creator Susie Conklin spent several weeks in Birtwistle's apartment in New York City, using color-coded cards to piece the stories together.
Cranford (2007) 18 of 41. Judi Dench in Cranford (2007) People Judi Dench. Titles Cranford, Return to Cranford: Part One - August 1844, Return to Cranford: Part 1.
