Vanity Fair is a 1987 BBC Pebble Mill Production consisting of sixteen 35 minute episodes. It is an adaptation of the 1848 novel Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray. The serial was shot on location and in studio. Locations included Winchester and Thetford. Virtually all the interiors were shot in Studio A at Pebble Mill.
The series stars Eve Matheson as Becky Sharp, Rebecca Saire as Amelia Sedley, Simon Dormandy as William Dobbin, Jack Klaff as Rawdon Crawley, David Swift as Mr. Sedley, James Saxon as Joseph 'Jos' Sedley, Gillian Raine as Mrs. Sedley, Benedict Taylor as George Osborne, Shaughan Seymour as Pitt Crawley, Philippa Urquhart as Miss Briggs and Freddie Jones as Sir Pitt Crawley. Amanda Murray appeared as Ann Dobbin in three episodes.
The story is set in the time of the Napoleonic Wars. Becky Sharp, a poor orphan girl, schemes for money and position. Her most-used stepladder is her old school friend, Amelia Sedley. Both women marry soldiers, and both of them are affected by the Battle of Waterloo.
Episodes Episode Title Air Date1Miss Sharp and Miss Sedley Open the Campaign6 September 19872Vauxhall Gardens13 September 19873Crawley of Queen's Crawley20 September 19874Arcadian Simplicity20 September 19875Who Played the Piano?4 October 19876A Marriage and Part of a Honeymoon11 October 19877Amelia Invades the Low Countries18 October 19878The Girl I Left Behind Me25 October 19879Widow and Brother1 November 198710How to Live Well on Nothing a Year8 November 198711Struggles and Trials15 November 198712The Very Best of Company22 November 198713A Vulgar Incident29 November 198714After the Battle6 December 198715Our Friend the Major13 December 198716Old Acquaintance20 December 1987
References
External links
Vanity Fair at British Film Institute