Set in the early 1840s, this is the original BBC miniseries of Elizabeth Gaskell's classic tale of a fictional Victorian country village in which the genteel ladies of Cranford struggle to face an uncertain future with dignity and 19th Century decorum.

• Gabrielle Hamilton
• Fabia Drake
• Sarah Grazebrook
• Hazel Bainbridge
• Helen Christie
• Pat Coombs
• Daphne Heard