Esther Waters is a British period television series which originally aired on BBC 2 in four episodes from 14 November to 5 December 1964. It is an adaptation of the 1894 novel of the same title by George Moore.^[1] Like the novel it focuses on the struggle of Esther Waters who, in Victorian England, is abandoned by her lover when pregnant. Despite the social stigma of being a fallen woman she chooses to raise the child as a single mother.

The novel had previously been made into a 1948 film Esther Waters. A further television adaptation Esther Waters followed in 1977.

• Meg Wynn Owen as Esther Waters
• John Bennett as William Latch
• Pauline Letts as Mrs. Barfield
• Gwendolyn Watts as Margaret Gale
• Daphne Heard as Mrs. Latch
• Gordon Gostelow as Fred Parsons
• Anne Ridler as Miss Rice
• Carl Bernard as Mr. Randall
• Blake Butler as Mr. Ward
• Elizabeth Bell as Sarah
• John Dearth as Esther's father
• Ruth Porcher as Esther's mother
• Tracy Reed as Miss Peggy
• Doris Hare as Mrs. Randall

• Baskin, Ellen . Serials on British Television, 1950-1994. Scolar Press, 1996.

• Esther Waters at IMDb