Bates Motel

This five-part British miniseries (one 90-minute episode, 4 hour-long installments) was based upon Henry Fielding's lusty 18th century novel The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling--and indeed carried this longer title in the opening credits. Raised in the household of Squire Allworthy (Benjamin Whithrow, the rambunctious Tom Jones (Max Beesley) does his best to fit in with proper society, only to be done in at every turn by his baser instincts and by those envious and greedy characters who would do him harm. The plot shifts into gear when Tom falls in love with Sophia Western (Samantha Morton), the daughter of a neighboring squire. Described as a fellow who is "born to be hanged", our hero very nearly meets this fate, and "enjoys" numerous other ribald and ribtickling adventures, before he is permitted to make Sophia his bride. Though more faithful to the original novel than the Oscar-winning 1963 film version, this TV adaptation of Tom Jones somehow lacks the spontaneous sense of fun and daring which distinguished the earlier version. Telecast by BBC1 beginning November 9, 1997, Tom Jones was seen in America via the A&E cable network beginning April 5, 1998.

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