Top billed cast

1. 

   Amelia Shankley

   Sara Crewe

2. 

   Maureen Lipman

   Miss Maria Minchin

3. 

   Miriam Margolyes

   Miss Amelia Minchin

4. 

   Annette Badland

   Cook

5. 

   Natalie Abbott

   Becky

6. 

   Alison Reynolds

   Ermengarde St John

7. 

   Katrina Heath

   Lavinia Herbert

8. 

   Joanna Dukes

   Jessie

9. 

   Johanna Hargreaves

   Henrietta

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Season 1

1987 | 6 Episodes

Sara Crewe is the pampered daughter of an army colonel in a Victorian London girls' school. But when her father dies, penniless, Sara becomes a skivvy in Miss Michin's school, befriended only by the scullery maid, Becky, her friends Ermengarde and Lottie, a little monkey, a lascar, and the mysterious man next door.

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Status
Ended

Original Language
English

Original Name
A Little Princess

Keywords

• london, england
• boarding school
• bullying
• girls' boarding school
• death of father
• miniseries
• orphan
• period drama
• based on children's book
• literary adaptation
• riches to rags
• british raj
• 1900s
• 20th century