Cranford
Return to Cranford
Created by: Sue Birtwistle, Susie Conklin
Network: BBC One
Season aired: 2009-12-20
Seasons
Overview
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.
About This Season
Cranford, where everything changes and all remains the same, and Miss Matty's house is full of bustle when her maid Martha gives birth to a daughter. Elsewhere the shadow of the new railway still looms. Miss Matty is concerned about a young girl who lives in an isolated cottage with her mother and domineering brother. Her worries open a Pandora's box and fears that Cranford will never recover.
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Episodes · 2
August 1844
Miss Matty becomes concerned about an isolated youngster as Mr Buxton returns to town.
October 1844
Defying his father, William finds a job with Captain Brown working on the railway.
