Tell me your favourite period drama

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I have a rare day off with no kids coming up soon and I want to spend it on the sofa immersed in period dramas.

Which ones do you love?

mammmamia The original Upstairs Downstairs is on Britbox.

Cranford is my ultimate comfort tv - it’s just wonderful.

I haven’t seen the House of Eliott since it was first broadcast but I loved it then.

I’m also a big Merchant Ivory fan, especially Room with a View and Howard’s End.

Oldies:
Pride and prejudice
House of Elliot
Cold Comfort Farm
Moll Flanders

More recent one was based on Christine Keeler's story, but can't remember what it was called exactly.

Have always wanted to give Poldark a go, but never got around to watching it.

Oh and I was one of the few people who enjoyed Indian Summer.

For Gertrudetheadelie...

Downtown Abbey and both versions of North and South, one with Richard Armitage and the other with Patrick Swayze

World on fire
Tess of the Durbervilles
Les Mis with Dominic West
Das Boot
Pride and Prejudice drama and film
Guy Fawkes
Chernobyl

and Vanity Fair

I know it flopped but I really enjoyed the recent Far From the Madding Crowd film. Michael Sheen was excellent as Broadwood and Matthias Schoenaerts(sp?) as Gabriel, say no more.....

The 1970s version was great, too

Can’t believe that nobody has referenced the BBC’s 1998 adaptation of Vanity Fair with Natasha Little and Nathaniel Parker.

It is fabulous and wipes the floor with ITV’s very inferior offering from last year.

It even just about pips the 1995 Pride and Prejudice with Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth, which is also fantastic.

@Iamthewombat is that the one with Philip Glenister and the one who plays the caretaker in Harry Potter?

It is! Philip Glenister unsurpassed as Captain Dobbin and David Bradley brilliant as a lecherous old Sir Pitt Crawley.

Apart from the great actors, it was pretty true to the character of Becky Sharp from the book: scheming, unprincipled liar and quite light-fingered with it. Love the bit where she’s already secretly married Rawdon then curses at her bad luck when she has to turn down the proposal from his dad, having lost her chance to be Lady Crawley.

I absolutely loved that version...would love to sit back with pot of tea and shortbread and watch it all over again

Jane Eyre 2006
North and South 2004
Pride and Prejudice 1995
Pride and Prejudice 2005
The Crown on Netflix
Emma 2009
Emma 2020 (because it looks so gorgeous!)
Sense and Sensibility 2008
Vanity Fair 2018
Wives and Daughters 1999
Call The Midwife (especially series 1-3 with Chummy and Noakes)
The Durrells
Poldark with Aidan Turner

I love a good period drama

Some other suggestions not on here so far:

Bleak House
The Hour
A Very English Scandal
The Imitation Game
Atonement
Mrs Wilson
Wolf Hall

I loved the 2008 BBC production of Tess of the d'Urbervilles which was repeated recently on BBC4. The 1980 Roman Polanski film Tess is very good too. I love Thomas Hardy but the film Jude based on Jude the Obscure with Christopher Ecclestone was flawed for me. I couldn't believe it when they omitted the final scene which is so devastating in the book.