Pat Coombs

Filled with the heartwarming humor and gentle pathos of Elizabeth Gaskell's classic novel, this original four-part BBC dramatization of Cranford is set in the early 1840s in a fictional market town in northwest England. Centers on the town's predominantly single and widowed middle-class female inhabitants who are comfortable with their traditional way of life.

A jazz musician preparing for combat in World War II stumbles through a series of comical misadventures with his mischievous fellow recruits.