Season 1 (1997)
Release date: 1997-01-05
Director: Jim O'Brien
Novel: Daphne du Maurier
Episodes (2):
1. Part One
Maxim De Winter marries a woman half his age only a year after his first wife, the beautiful and accomplished Rebecca, dies. She finds herself in an aristocratic social world her middle class upbringing did not prepare her for.
Release date: 1997-01-05
2. Part Two
In an effort to establish herself as the new mistress of Manderley, Mrs De Winter revives the mansion's famous fancy dress ball. She is encouraged by Mrs Danvers to copy a dress from a painting of a family ancestor, but her husband is furious. Danvers's taunting reaches a climax as she declares Rebecca is still ruler at the house, just as an ominous discovery is made.
Release date: 1997-01-06
Cast
Charles Dance
as Maxim de Winter
Emilia Fox
as The Second Mrs. de Winter
Diana Rigg
as Mrs. Danvers
Faye Dunaway
as Mrs. Van Hopper
Jonathan Cake
as Jack Favell
Tom Chadbon
as Frank Crawley
Denis Lill
as Giles
John Branwell
as Ben
Lucy Cohu
as Rebecca
John Horsley
as Frith
Kelly Reilly
as Clarice
Geraldine James
as Beatrice
Jean Anderson
as Grandma
Rest of the cast - click here to expand
Jonathan Stokes - Robert, Wendy MacAdam - Nurse
Crew - click here to expand
Jim O'Brien - Director, Rikolt von Gagern - Executive Producer, Caroline Amies - Production Design, Doreen Jones - Casting, Rebecca Eaton - Executive Producer, Rex Maidment - Director of Photography, Christopher Gunning - Original Music Composer, Frank Walsh - Art Direction, Daphne du Maurier - Novel, Tim Buxton - Executive Producer, Michael Parker - Editor, Elizabeth Waller - Costume Design, Jonathan Powell - Executive Producer, Michael Narduzzo - Sound Re-Recording Mixer, Hilary Dwyer - Producer