On this day in television history – Moll Flanders (TV mini-series & novel):

The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders

4-part mini-series directed by David Attwood,

written by Andrew Davies, Dominic Minghella,

based on the novel Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe,

released in the United States on October 13, 1996.

Music by Jim Parker, Mark Springer.

Cast:

Alex Kingston, Daniel Craig, James Bowers, Trevyn McDowell, Patti Love, Colin Buchanan, Nicola Walker, Roger Morlidge, Nicola Kingston, Geoffrey Beevers, Sam Halpenny, Tom Ward, Anthony O'Donnell, Lucy Evans, Jenna Hodges, Diana Rigg, Anthony Bessick, Matthew O'Neill, Lucy Fitzmaurice, James Fleet, Struan Rodger, Dan D. Fough, Claire Keepie, John Savident, Bill Thomas, Chrissie Cotterill, Jonathan Weir, Brian Rawlinson, Peter Jonfield, Anna Welsh, Neville Phillips, Will Tacey, Alison Lomas, Maureen O'Brien, Guy Scantlebury, Irving Czechowicz, Ronald Fraser, Catherine Keis, Anthony Milner, Ian Driver, Ruth Mitchell, Caroline Harker, Anya Phillips, Dallas Campbell, Milton Johns, Dawn McDaniel, David Burston, David Norman, Ken McDonald, Mary Healey, Elizabeth Skelton, Jeff Nuttall, Philip Fox, Caroline Trowbridge, Victoria Scarborough, Jeffrey Robert, James Larkin, Christopher Fulford, Michael Johnson, Andrew Mayor, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Evie Garratt, James Helm, Colin Alltree, Sarah Dorsett, Alistair Donkin, Alex Brown, Tim Jefferis, David Mitchell, Maia Lucas.

Recommended reading:

Moll Flanders

By Daniel Defoe.

First published 1772.

Published by Random House Publishing Group.

ISBN 13: 9780375760105

ISBN 10: 0375760105

ASIN:0375760105

Description:

Written in a time when criminal biographies enjoyed great success, Daniel Defoe’s Moll Flanders details the life of the irresistible Moll and her struggles through poverty and sin in search of property and power. Born in Newgate Prison to a picaresque mother, Moll propels herself through marriages, periods of success and destitution, and a trip to the New World and back, only to return to the place of her birth as a popular prostitute and brilliant thief. The story of Moll Flanders vividly illustrates Defoe’s themes of social mobility and predestination, sin, redemption and reward.