She says Wickham argued with their traveling companion, Captain Denny, who ordered the coach stopped and then ran into the woods with Wickham in pursuit. Late that night, an hysterical Lydia arrives at Pemberley. Fitzwilliam romantically pursues Georgiana, but Elizabeth knows she is in love with Henry Alveston, a young lawyer. Two family members are not invited: Elizabeth's sister, Lydia and her ne'er-do-well husband, George Wickham, who once attempted to seduce Darcy's sister, Georgiana, into eloping with him (in Jane Austen's novel ' Pride and Prejudice'). Pemberley welcomes Elizabeth's parents and Mr. Mrs Bidwell's son, Will, is terminally ill and bedridden. Elizabeth makes a charity visit to Mrs Bidwell, a tenant living in a cottage on the estate with her daughter, Louisa (a maid at Pemberley), and Louisa's new-born baby.

Įlizabeth and her husband of six years, Mr Darcy, are in the midst of preparing for a ball at Pemberly. The gallows scenes were filmed on a purpose-built scaffold outside York Crown Court, with Wickham emerging from the gate to the old debtors' prison in the York Museum. Beverley's Guildhall provided the location for a courtroom. Areas of National Trust land, including Hardcastle Crags, Fountains Abbey and the Studley Royal estate and Treasurer's House, were also used in filming. Chatsworth House in Derbyshire was used as the exterior of Pemberley, and rooms at Chatsworth and at Castle Howard and Harewood House, both in Yorkshire, were used for indoor scenes. He played Lt Chamberlayne in the 1995 BBC adaptation.įilming began in June 2013 on location in Yorkshire and Derbyshire and has been supported with investment from Screen Yorkshire. Actor Tom Ward, who plays Colonel Fitzwilliam, is the only cast member to have previously played a role in an adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. Penelope Keith as Lady Catherine de Bourgh.After being informed, Darcy sends out a search party, who find Wickham distraught and hysterical, holding Denny's body and blaming himself for his murder. The two men disappear into the woodland, where Lydia hears two gunshots. Wickham and Denny have an argument, and leave the carriage in anger. One evening, George Wickham and his wife Lydia (Elizabeth's sister) are travelling by carriage to Pemberley for a ball with Captain Denny. Fitzwilliam Darcy and Miss Elizabeth Bennet, as recounted in Pride and Prejudice. It is June 1803, six years after the marriage of Mr. The series was commissioned by Controller of BBC Drama Commissioning Ben Stephenson and then-Controller of BBC One Danny Cohen, and was first broadcast from 26 to 28 December 2013 on BBC One. Her murder mystery was based on the style and characters of Jane Austen's 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice.

Origin Pictures, Masterpiece co-productionĭeath Comes to Pemberley is a three-part British television drama based on the best-selling 2011 P.D.

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