Cranford

About Cranford

A rich and comic drama about the people of Cranford, a small Cheshire town on the cusp of change in the 1840s. Adapted from the novels by Elizabeth Gaskell.

BBC One's Cranford is a drama series. Eileen Atkins appears as Miss Deborah Jenkyns, Judi Dench as Miss Matilda Jenkyns, Lisa Dillon as Mary Smith, and Simon Woods as Dr Harrison.

It ran for 2 seasons and 7 episodes between November 2007 and December 2009. That is around 4 episodes a season.

Shelv files it under class differences, period drama, costume drama, and 19th century. In the United States it streams on BritBox, BritBox Amazon Channel, and Britbox Apple TV channel. It scores 8.1 out of 10 from 54 TMDB voters.

Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Sense and Sensibility make useful companions to Cranford, all filed under england.