Emma (1972 TV serial)

Emma
Based on	Emma by Jane Austen
Written by	Jane Austen (novel) Denis Constanduros (dramatization)
Directed by	John Glenister
Starring	Doran Godwin John Carson
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language(s)	English
No. of episodes	6
Production
Producer(s)	Martin Lisemore
Running time	45 mins per episode (excluding commercials)
Release
Original network	BBC2
Original release	20 July – 24 August 1972

Jane Austen's novel Emma (1815) was transmitted as a six-part TV serial by BBC Television in 1972. It was directed by John Glenister.

This dramatization brings to life the wit and humour of Jane Austen's arguably finest novel Emma, recreating her most irritatingly endearing female character, of whom she wrote "no one but myself could like."

Emma presides over the small provincial world of Highbury with enthusiasm, but she will find that it is all too easy to confuse good intentions with self-gratification. The often insensitive, well-meaning, incorrigible Emma Woodhouse having engineered the marriage of governess, companion and friend Miss Taylor, now turns her attention towards making a match for Mr Elton, the local vicar, and her new protégée Harriet Smith. Her one voice of reason and restraint is Mr Knightley, who has known her since she was a child and who watches her behaviour with wry amusement and sometimes with real anger.

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