Esther Waters is a British period television series which originally aired on BBC 2 in four episodes from 14 November to 5 December 1964. It is an adaptation of the 1894 novel of the same title by George Moore. Like the novel it focuses on the struggle of Esther Waters who, in Victorian England, is abandoned by her lover when pregnant. Despite the social stigma of being a fallen woman she chooses to raise the child as a single mother.
The novel had previously been made into a 1948 film Esther Waters. A further television adaptation Esther Waters followed in 1977.
Main cast
Meg Wynn Owen as Esther Waters
John Bennett as William Latch
Pauline Letts as Mrs. Barfield
Gwendolyn Watts as Margaret Gale
Daphne Heard as Mrs. Latch
Gordon Gostelow as Fred Parsons
Anne Ridler as Miss Rice
Carl Bernard as Mr. Randall
Blake Butler as Mr. Ward
Elizabeth Bell as Sarah
John Dearth as Esther's father
Ruth Porcher as Esther's mother
Tracy Reed as Miss Peggy
Doris Hare as Mrs. Randall