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Jane Austen's novel Northanger Abbey (1818) was adapted for television in 1986 by the A&E Network and the BBC.

Crew

Giles Foster (Director)
Louis Marks (Producer)
Ilona Sekacz (Original music)
Nat Crosby (Cinematography)
Nicholas Rocker (Costume design)
Joan Stribling (Make-up)
Maggie Wadey (Screen-play)

Cast

Katharine Schlesinger .... Catherine Morland

Peter Firth .... Henry Tilney

Robert Hardy .... General Tilney

Googie Withers .... Mrs. Allen

Geoffrey Chater .... Mr. Allen

Cassie Stuart .... Isabella Thorpe

Jonathan Coy .... John Thorpe

Ingrid Lacey .... Eleanor Tilney

Greg Hicks .... Frederick Tilney

Philip Bird .... James Morland

Elvi Hale .... Mrs. Thorpe

Helen Fraser .... Mrs. Morland

David Rolfe .... Mr. Morland

Elaine Ives-Cameron .... Marchioness

Angela Curran .... Alice

Tricia Morrish .... Miss Digby

Oliver Hembrough .... Edward Morland

Anne-Marie Mullane .... Thorpe Sisters

Michelle Arthur .... Thorpe Sisters

Sarah-Jane Holm .... Jenny

Raphael Alleyne .... Page Boy

Myra Carter .... Neighbour

Catriona Hinds .... Richard's Wife

Ciarán O'Reilly .... Passer-by

Caroline Seymour .... Junkie

Teresa Yenque .... Indian Woman

Plot

Northanger Abbey is the story of a young woman, Catherine Morland, who is invited to Bath with family friends, the Allens, for the waters at Bath will help Mr. Allen's gout. Catherine (called "Cathy" by her many younger siblings) has been quite sheltered all her life, escaping only by reading Gothic novels, and so is delighted to go to Bath. Mrs. Allen intorduce Catherine to the Thorpe family, including an older girl, Isabella, who befriends Catherine. The girls have bonded over their love of similar novels, when their brother's arrive. James (Catherine's brother) falls in love with Isabella, a hardened flirt. Likewise, John (Isabella's brother and James's friend) goes after Catherine, who odes not like John half so much as John likes himself. Catherine is in love herself, however, with a quirky young minister, Henry Tilney, whom she met at a dance. Catherine befriends Henry's sister, Eleanor, and goes on many outing wiht the two siblings, after their brother, Frederick, comes to Bath. Isabella, having learned that James (to whom she is now engadged) is poor, begins to flirt with Frederick Tilney. Eleanor invites Catherine to stay wiht her at the Tilney's home, Northanger Abbey; Catherine accepts with pleasure, though she imagines that the Abbey will be rather like on the the gloomy castles in her books. Catherine is, at first, welcomed by General Tilney (Henry's father), who has been bragged to by John Thorpe that Catherine (whom John thinks is in love with him) is an heiress. When he realizes that Catherine is not rich, however, he sends her packing. Back at home, Catherine is unhappy, missing Henry and disillusioned about her precious Gothic novels. Henry appears and propses, however, and the story ends happily.

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