Genre: | Historical drama |
Based On: | Esther Waters by George Moore |
Director: | James Cellan Jones |
Starring: | Meg Wynn Owen John Bennett Gwendolyn Watts |
Composer: | Dudley Simpson |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Language: | English |
Num Series: | 1 |
Num Episodes: | 4 |
Producer: | Douglas Allen |
Runtime: | 45 minutes |
Company: | BBC |
Channel: | BBC Two |
Esther Waters is a British period television series which originally aired on BBC 2 in four episodes from 14 November to 5 December 1964. It is an adaptation of the 1894 novel of the same title by George Moore.[1] Like the novel it focuses on the struggle of Esther Waters who, in Victorian England, is abandoned by her lover when pregnant. Despite the social stigma of being a fallen woman she chooses to raise the child as a single mother.
The novel had previously been made into a 1948 film Esther Waters. A further television adaptation Esther Waters followed in 1977.