Publisher's Synopsis
All 16 episodes of the 1987 BBC adaptation of the novel by William Makepeace Thackeray. In a society surviving on the wealth generated by an expanding empire, Rebecca Sharp (Eve Matheson) is the ambitious daughter of a poor family who will let nothing stand in her way in her attempt to climb the social ladder. Taking a position as a nanny, Rebecca claws her way into a wealthy family's favours and into London society. The episodes are: 'Miss Sharp and Miss Sedley Open the Campaign', 'Vauxhall Gardens', 'Crawley of Queen's Crawley', 'Arcadian Simplicity', 'Who Played On the Piano?', 'A Marriage and Part of a Honeymoon', 'Amelia Invades the Low Countries', 'The Girl I Left Behind Me', 'Widow and Mother', 'How to Live Well On Nothing a Year', 'Struggles and Trials', 'The Very Best of Company', 'A Vulgar Incident', 'After the Battle', 'Our Friend the Major' and 'Old Acquaintance'.
