The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1968 TV series)

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
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GenrePeriod drama
Based onThe Tenant of Wildfell Hall
by Anne Brontë
Written byChristopher Fry
Directed byPeter Sasdy
StarringJanet Munro
Corin Redgrave
Bryan Marshall
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of episodes4 (1 missing)
Production
Executive producerDavid Conroy
EditorLennox Phillips
Running time180 minutes (45 minutes each episode)
Production companyBBC
Original release
NetworkBBC2
Release28 December 1968 (1968-12-28) –
18 January 1969 (1969-01-18)
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is the first adaptation of Anne Brontë's 1848 novel of the same name, produced by BBC and directed by Peter Sasdy.[1][2] The serial stars Janet Munro as Helen Graham, Bryan Marshall as Gilbert Markham and Corin Redgrave as her spoiled and drunkard husband Arthur Huntington.[3] The serial is incomplete, as episode one, "Recluse", is missing from the BBC Archive.[4]

  1. ^ Han, Catherine (4 June 2018). "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall's (1848) residence at the BBC: neo-Victorian adaptations in the 1960s and 1990s" (PDF). Neo-Victorian Studies. 10 (2): 32–67 – via orca.cf.ac.uk.
  2. ^ "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall: Part 1: Recluse". 28 December 1968. p. 7 – via BBC Genome.
  3. ^ "Marriage (1969)". BFI. Archived from the original on 14 August 2022.
  4. ^ "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (TV Series 1968–1969) - IMDb". IMDb.