Little Women (1950 TV series) explained

Genre:	Period drama
Starring:	Sheila Shand Gibbs Jane Hardie Norah Gorsen David Jacobs Anita Sharp-Bolster
Country:	United Kingdom
Language:	English
Num Episodes:	6
Producer:	Pamela Brown
Runtime:	30 minutes
Company:	BBC
Channel:	BBC Television Service

Little Women is a British television mini-series broadcast by the BBC from 1950 to 1951 in six parts. An adaptation by Winifred Oughton and Brenda R. Thompson of Louisa May Alcott's 1868-69 two-volume novel Little Women.

The lost series was broadcast live and the transmissions were not recorded.^[1]

The production was the first adaptation of the novel by the BBC. There were later adaptations in 1958, 1970 and 2017.

Cast List

• Meg March - Sheila Shand Gibbs
• Jo March - Jane Hardie
• Beth March - Norah Gorsen
• Laurie - David Jacobs
• Hannah Mullet - Anita Sharp-Bolster
• Amy March - Susan Stephen
• Mrs. March - Barbara Everest
• Mr. James Laurence - Wensley Pithey
• John Brooke - Alan Bromly
• Aunt March - Violet Gould
• Mr. March - Arthur Ridley

Production Team^[2]

Writing

• Louisa May Alcott (6 episodes, 1950-1951)
• Winifred Oughton (6 episodes, 1950-1951)
• Brenda R. Thompson (6 episodes, 1950-1951)

Series Production Design

• Stephen Taylor (6 episodes, 1950-1951)
• Lawrence Broadhouse (2 episodes, 1951)

Producer

• Pamela Brown (6 episodes, 1950-1951)

Episode list

No.	Title	Original air date

References

1. Web site: Little Women. lostshows.com. 11 May 2014.
2. Web site: 2009-06-01. BFI Film & TV Database LITTLE WOMEN. 2020-11-24. https://web.archive.org/web/20090601065439/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/series/26307 . 1 June 2009 .