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Given the great success of Pride and Prejudice (1995) and that Jane Austen wrote so little, the BBC and screenwriter Andrew Davies looked elsewhere for material of comparable quality. Wives and Daughters by Mrs (Elizabeth) Gaskell is set around 1860 and tells the story of 17-year-old Molly (Justine Waddell), beloved daughter of the widowed Dr Gibson (Bill Paterson). A mercenary ...

Manufacturer: 2 Entertain Video
Starring: Justine Waddell, Bill Paterson, Francesca Annis, Keeley Hawes, Tom Hollander

The late Dennis Potter was a master at mining the popular songs of the 1930s and '40s for dramatic effect, but he never did it better than in The Singing Detective. The inestimable Michael Gambon plays a mystery writer named Philip E Marlow, who is suffering a torturous bout of psoriatic arthritis in hospital, where he is a victim of both his disease and the National Health Service. Unable ...

Manufacturer: 2 Entertain Video
Starring: Michael Gambon, Patrick Malahide, Joanne Whalley, Lyndon Davies, David Ryall
Directed By: Jon Amiel

Manufacturer: ITV DVD
Starring: Sam Neill, Chris Marshall, Hans Matheson, Bill Paterson, Celia Imrie
Directed By: Giacomo Campiotti

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Anjelica Huston, Mai Zetterling, Bill Paterson, Rowan Atkinson, Jasen Fisher
Directed By: Nicolas Roeg

Manufacturer: Acorn Media
Starring: Ben Whishaw, Pete Postlethwaite, Con O'Neill, Bill Paterson

The mini-series treatment suits Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak's sprawling novel of a Russian physician-poet whose comfortable life is upended by the revolution. And this near-four-hour Granada TV production lucidly demonstrates that Pasternak was one heck of a storyteller: the torment of Zhivago (Hans Matheson) as he must choose between his well-bred childhood sweetheart (Alexandra Maria ...

Manufacturer: Cinema Club
Starring: Keira Knightley, Sam Neill, Hans Matheson, Sam MacLintock, Bill Paterson
Directed By: Giacomo Campiotti

Manufacturer: Fremantle Home Entertainment
Starring: Dawn French, Bill Paterson, Timothy Spall, Martin Jarvis, Jane Asher

Manufacturer: 2 Entertain Video
Starring: Peter Capaldi, Bill Paterson, Stella Gonet, Joseph McFadden
Directed By: Gavin Millar

Manufacturer: Cinema Club
Starring: Bill Paterson, Eleanor David, Clare Grogan, Alex Norton, Patrick Malahide
Directed By: Bill Forsyth

Manufacturer: Entertainment in Video
Starring: Jonny Lee Miller, Brian Cox, Keeley Hawes, Paul Higgins, Jason Hetherington
Directed By: Gavin Millar