"Tess of the D'Urbervilles" Episode #1.1 (2008)

Director:

David Blair

Writers:

Thomas Hardy (novel)
David Nicholls (screenplay)

TV Series:

"Tess of the D'Urbervilles" (2008)

Original Air Date:

14 September 2008 (Season 1, Episode 1)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

Parson Tringham tells no one that John Durbeyfield's family is an impoverished branch of the noble, once mighty D'Urbervilles...

Plot Keywords:

Death Of Horse | Loss Of Innocence | Sex | Singing | Kissing

Cast

Gemma Arterton	...	Tess Durbeyfield
Hans Matheson	...	Alec D'Urberville
Ruth Jones	...	Joan Durbeyfield
Eddie Redmayne	...	Angel Clare
Donald Sumpter	...	Parson Tringham
Ian Puleston-Davies	...	John Durbeyfield
Anna Massey	...	Mrs. D'Urberville
Christopher Fairbank	...	Groby
Jo Woodcock	...	Liza-Lu Durbeyfield
Joel Rowbottom	...	Abraham Durbeyfield
Steven Robertson	...	Cuthbert Clare
Hugh Skinner	...	Felix Clare
Laura Elphinstone	...	Car Durch
Sara Gregory	...	Nancy Darch (as Sara Lloyd Gregory)
Christine Bottomley	...	Kate

Goofs:

Anachronisms: At one point in the first part, a church congregation sings a portion of the hymn, "How Great Thou Art." This was written in 1953, more than 60 years after the period in which the novel (published in 1891) takes place.