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My heartstrings also tugged when the conflict between Mr. I found it almost difficult to watch Miss Matty endure one crisis after another – until she finally prevailed with the establishment of her own tea shop, with the help of the ladies of Cranford and her reunion with her long lost brother. And the doctor's more successful efforts to save Sophy Hutton from typhoid gave the last episode a great deal of drama and angst.

Harrison’s futile efforts to save young Walter Hutton from the croup, along with Miss Deborah Jenkyns’ death allowed Episode 2 to end on a sober note. Yet, ”CRANFORD” had its poignant moments. Harrison and especially the incident regarding the cat that swallowed Mrs. These moments included Miss Deborah Jenkyns’ assistance in helping Miss Jessie Brown and Major Gordon stay in beat during their rendition of ”Loch Lomond” with a spoon and a teacup Miss Pole’s hysteria over a thief in Cranford Caroline Tomkinson’ infatuation with Dr. The miniseries possessed some very whimsical moments that I found particularly funny. The production team for 'CRANFORD' did an excellent job in conveying television viewers back in time to the early Victorian Age. And I also understand why it became so popular. I realize that ”CRANFORD” is a highly acclaimed program.

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*Octavia Pole – a spinster and Cranford’s town gossip who proves to be the subject of a series of hilarious events. Carter views as promising and whom Lady Ludlow views as someone who should remain in his station. *Harry Gregson – the very son of the poacher, whom Mr. Edmund Carter – Lady Ludlow’s land agent, who views Lady Ludlow’s attempts to raise funds for her dissolute son with a leery eye and clashes with his employer over the fate of the young son of a poacher. *Lady Ludlow – the Lady of Hanbury Court who struggles to maintain funds for her spendthrift son and heir living in Italy. Frank Harrison – Cranford’s new young doctor who has to struggle to win the trust of Cranford’s citizens and the love of the vicar’s oldest daughter, Sophy Hutton.

*Miss Matilda “Matty” Jenkyns – the younger of two elderly sisters who had to endure a series of travails that included the death of a loved one, the reunion with an old love and the loss of her income. But the main stories seemed to focus upon the following characters:

Many humorous and tragic incidents shown as minor plotlines are scattered throughout ”CRANFORD”. The arrival of a young doctor named Frank Harrison with modern new ideas about medical practices, and a railway construction crew on the town’s outskirts that meant the arrival of the railway, change and possibly unwelcomed citizens seemed to be the prime symbols of the encroaching Industrial Age. However, progress – both technological and social – began its intrusion upon the community for better or worse. On the surface, Cranford seemed like an idyllic community in which time remained stuck in the late Georgian Age. 'CRANFORD' mainly focused upon the small English village between 1842-1843, during the early years of the Victorian Age. Birtwistle, Conklin and Thomas took aspects of Gaskell’s stories, re-shuffled them and added some of their own plotlines to create the five-episode miniseries. After viewing the 2004 miniseries, 'NORTH AND SOUTH', my curiosity regarding the 2007 miniseries became piqued and I turned my attention toward it.Ĭreated by Sue Birtwistle and Susie Conklin, directed by Simon Curtis and Steve Hudson, and adapted by Heidi Thomas 'CRANFORD' is based upon three of Gaskell’s novellas published between 18 - 'Cranford', 'My Lady Ludlow', and ”Mr Harrison's Confessions”. Seven years ago, the BBC aired a five-part miniseries adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell’s series of stories about a small town in North West England.

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