Cranford is a British television series directed by Simon Curtis and Steve Hudson. The series was transmitted in five parts in the UK by BBC One in November and December 2007. In valentines day ideas for fiance male United States, it was broadcast in three episodes by PBS as part of its Masterpiece Theatre series in May 2008. Cranford returned with a two-part Christmas special Return to Cranford in 2009.
New to Cranford are Captain Brown and his two daughters, who move in across from the Jenkyns sisters, Deborah and Matty. The sisters have recently welcomed Mary Smith, the daughter of a friend, to live with them. The elder Brown daughter is ill and dies shortly after their arrival. With her father away, the surviving sibling Jessie Brown, breaks with tradition and walks behind the coffin accompanied by her neighbour, Deborah Jenkyns. The handsome and eligible young doctor Frank Harrison arrives to assist Dr Morgan with his practice.
His first patient is carpenter Jem Hearne, who has fallen from a tree and suffered a compound fracture. Instead of following the usual custom of amputating the injured limb, Dr Harrison delays immediate action in order to perform a relatively new and risky surgery to save the arm. His successful effort wins the admiration of the townspeople. Edmund Carter, estate manager for Lady Ludlow, takes an interest in young Harry Gregson, the bright son of a poor local family, and offers him both work and an education.
When a valuable piece of historic lace belonging to Mrs. Forrester is swallowed by a cat, she and Octavia Pole discover a novel new use for a Wellington boot. Major Gordon proposes to Jessie Brown, for the second time, before his regiment is to be sent to India, but she refuses him because she believes she cannot leave her father alone. However, when it is revealed at Lady Ludlow’s annual garden party that the railway will be passing close to Cranford, and that Captain Brown will be away on railway business for long periods of time, his daughter, Jessie, regrets her decision. Greatly dismayed at the news of the railway’s arrival is Deborah Jenkyns, who accuses Captain Brown of deceiving them. Upon returning from Lady Ludlow’s annual garden party, she complains of a terrible headache and, moments later, collapses in her bedroom and dies later that night.
Harrison’s romance with Sophy Hutton blossoms, only to be hindered when he cannot save her brother from the croup. The vicar’s daughter suffers a crisis of faith. Dr Harrison’s friend Dr Marshland comes to visit for Christmas and returns just prior to Valentine’s Day, when he causes mischief by sending a card suggesting marriage to Caroline Tomkinson, who believes it came from Dr Harrison, whose romance with Sophy Hutton reignites. Dr Marshland also seems to take a liking to Mary Smith. Guilty of poaching on Lady Ludlow’s estate but mistakenly accused of assault and robbery instead, Harry Gregson’s father Job finds himself in gaol until Lady Ludlow is persuaded by both Mr. Carter’s pleas and seeing for herself the abject poverty in which the Gregson family lives, uses her influence to have the charges dropped. Thomas Holbrook is reunited with Matty Jenkyns.