Mansfield Park

Synopsis

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.

First Air Date: 1983-11-06

Last Air Date: 1983-12-11

Number of Seasons: 1

Number of Episodes: 6

Created By: Ken Taylor

Networks: BBC Two

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Top Cast

Sylvestra Le Touzel as Fanny Price
Angela Pleasence as Lady Bertram
Anna Massey as Mrs Norris
Nicholas Farrell as Edmund Bertram
Gorden Kaye as Dr Grant
Susan Edmonstone as Mrs Grant
Jackie Smith-Wood as Mary Crawford
Robert Burbage as Henry Crawford
Neville Phillips as Baddeley
Bernard Hepton as Sir Thomas Bertram

Seasons

Miniseries (1983)

Fanny Price 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:

Ep. 1: Episode One (1983-11-06)

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.
Ep. 2: Episode Two (1983-11-13)

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.
Ep. 3: Episode Three (1983-11-20)

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.
Ep. 4: Episode Four (1983-11-27)

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.
Ep. 5: Episode Five (1983-12-04)

Henry would marry Fanny. To this end he's seen to William's promotion in the Navy, but Fanny will have none of him.
Ep. 6: Episode Six (1983-12-11)

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.