You’re sitting around bored, so you figure you’ll watch the 1995 BBC version of Pride and Prejudice *again*. But wait…there are other Jane Austen adaptations. Some people (ahem, Mrs. Fitzpatrick) even swear the David Rintoul P&P is better than the Colin Firth P&P. Here’s a(n unfinished) list of various versions of Jane Austen on screen.

Pride and Prejudice
2005 (movie) Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen
2003 (movie) Kam Heskin and Orlando Seale
1995 (tv mini-series on BBC, written by Andrew Davies) Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth
1980 (tv mini-series on BBC) Elizabeth Garvie and David Rintoul
1967 (TV series UK) Celia Bannerman and Lewis Fiander
1958 (TV series UK) Jane Downs and Alan Badel
1952 (TV mini-series UK) Daphne Slater and Peter Cushing (!)
1940 (movie US) Greer Garson and Lawrence Olivier
1938 (TV UK) Curigwen Lewis and Andrew Osborn

Emma
1996 (movie US) Gwenyth Paltrow and Jeremy Northam
1996 (TV movie, written by Andrew Davies) Kate Beckinsale and Mark Strong, Samantha Morton as Harriet
1972 (TV mini-series UK) Doran Godwin and John Carson
1960 (TV UK) Diana Fairfax and Paul Daneman
1948 (TV UK) Judy Campbell and Ralph Michael

Persuasion
2007 (TV—on BPS) Sally Hawkins as Anne Eliot, Rupert Penry-Jones as Captain Wentworth (cute blond guy on MI-5 after Matthew Macfayden left), Anthony Stewart Head as Sir Walter Eliot, Alice Krige (the Borg queen!) as Lady Russell
1995 (TV movie) Amanda Root and Ciaran Hinds