overview : Wives and Daughters is a 1999 four part BBC serial adapted from the novel Wives and Daughters: An Everyday Story by Victorian author Elizabeth Gaskell. It focuses on Molly Gibson (Justine Waddell), the daughter of the town doctor, and the changes that occur in her life after her widowed father chooses to remarry. The union brings into her once-quiet life an ever-proper stepmother (Francesca Annis) and flirtatious stepsister, Cynthia (Keeley Hawes), while a friendship with the local squire brings about an unexpected romance.

First Air Date : Nov 28, 1999

Last Air Date : Dec 19, 1999

Runtime : 1h 15m

Episodes : 6

Seasons : 1

Genre : Drama,

Companies : GBH, Dune Films, BBC

Countries : GB

Keywords : sibling relationship, england, loss of loved one, based on novel or book, parent child relationship, country life, ship, stepmother, marriage, family relationships, miniseries, doctor, period drama, gossip, death, aristocrat, estate, rite of passage, secret marriage, stepsister, 19th century, darwinism