Pride and Prejudice - Recommendations

• Movie (1 ep)
• 1988

Five-year-old Lynn, who lives in Japan with her mother, comes back in England to meet her father, Viscount George Marble but on the way to the manor, Lynn loses her mother in an accident. Lynn meets her father and sister, as well as the Viscount's awful wife and her wicked children. At eleven, Lynn studies at St Patrick School, famed for horse riding. She develops a rivalry with Mylene, the captain of the equestrian team, and tries to gain the love of her grandfather who ignores her.

• TV (43 eps)
• 1988

The story concerns an American boy named Cedric Errol, who at an early age finds that he is the sole heir to a British earldom and leaves New York to take up residence in his ancestral castle. After some initial resistance, he is joined by his middle-class mother, widow of heir James Errol. His grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, intends to teach the boy to become an aristocrat, but Cedie inadvertently teaches his grandfather compassion and social justice, and the artless simplicity and motherly love of dearest warms the old man's heart.

• TV (26 eps)
• 1979 - 1980

• TV (39 eps)
• 2004 - 2005

Maybelle West is a young relative of the famous Miss Marple, and an aspiring detective in her own right. Although the privilege of getting to witness Miss Marple's work from up close ought to be enough to train anyone in the craft, Maybelle also secures herself a place under the tutelage of another detective genius, Hercule Poirot. Thus, she ends up traveling between the village of St. Mary Mead and London, observing the two great minds at work as they use their amazing powers of deduction to solve crimes that leave the regular police baffled.

• TV (26 eps)
• 1992

• TV (12 eps)
• 2008

Throughout the ages, fairy doctors served as liaisons between humans and fairies; but in the present time of the 19th century, fairies are nothing more than an old wives' tale. Nineteen-year-old Lydia Carlton is one of the only remaining fairy doctors and enjoys a quiet life in the countryside of England - that is, until the dashing Edgar, for mysterious reasons, whisks her away on a daring adventure. Said to be the descendent of the earl of the fairy nation, Edgar desires the noble sword of the merrow that serves as proof to his lineage. Though his motives and origins are questionable, Lydia now sets forth to help Edgar on his quest.

• TV (13 eps)
• 1979

The Main character is a 15 year old Isabelle Laustin, other characters being her parents Leon and Marie, Isabelle`s friends Jean and his sister Marie, and Isabelle`s suitor, Captain Victor. When Paris is beseiged and Napoleon III`s army is defeated, Isabelle escapes to London, disguised as a boy, and engages in secret agent stuff.

• TV Special (2 eps)
• 2001

• TV Special (1 ep)
• 1978

Wealthy miser Ebenezer Scrooge is a mean, stingy old man who never has a kind word for anyone. Lacking both empathy and human compassion, he spends his days greedily exploiting people to make himself richer. On Christmas Eve he is visited by the ghost of his former business partner, Jacob Marley, who warns him that three more spirits are coming to show him the error of his ways. If Scrooge refuses to change, his spirit will be condemned to wander the earth forever!

• OVA (1 ep)
• 1991

Based on the novella A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.