<Li> David Blockley as Footman </Li> <P> The cast was announced on 18 June 2013 . The series was cast by Gary Davy . Actor Tom Ward, who plays Colonel Fitzwilliam, is the only cast member to have previously played a role in an adaptation of Pride and Prejudice . He played Lt Chamberlayne in the 1995 BBC adaptation . </P> <P> Filming began in June 2013 on location in Yorkshire and Derbyshire and has been supported with investment from Screen Yorkshire . Chatsworth House in Derbyshire was used as the exterior of Pemberley, and rooms at Chatsworth and at Castle Howard and Harewood House, both in Yorkshire, were used for indoor scenes . Areas of National Trust land, including Hardcastle Crags, Fountains Abbey and the Studley Royal estate and Treasurer's House, were also used in filming . Beverley's Guildhall provided the location for a courtroom . The gallows scenes were filmed on a purpose - built scaffold outside York Crown Court, with Wickham emerging from the gate to the old debtors' prison in the York Museum . </P> <Table> <Tr> <Th> No . </Th> <Th> Title </Th> <Th> Directed by </Th> <Th> Written by </Th> <Th> Original air date </Th> <Th> UK viewers (millions) </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> </Th> <Td> "Episode One" </Td> <Td> Daniel Percival </Td> <Td> Juliette Towhidi </Td> <Td> 26 December 2013 (2013 - 12 - 26) </Td> <Td> 7.81 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="6"> Elizabeth Darcy and her husband of 6 years are in the midst of preparing for a ball . They welcome Elizabeth's parents and Mr. Darcy's cousin Colonel Fitzwilliam . One who is not invited is Elizabeth's sister Lydia and her ne'er - do - well husband, George Wickham . An hysterical Lydia arrives at Pemberley late that same night saying that Wickham had argued with his friend Captain Denny who ordered the coach stopped and ran into the woods with Wickham running after him . She soon heard two shots leading her to order the coach to Pemberley at full speed . A search party soon finds Denny dead and Wickham bloodied and semi-conscious . Darcy contacts the local magistrate, Sir Selwin Hardcastle, who investigates and quickly arrests Wickham for murder . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> </Th> <Td> "Episode Two" </Td> <Td> Daniel Percival </Td> <Td> Juliette Towhidi </Td> <Td> 27 December 2013 (2013 - 12 - 27) </Td> <Td> 6.00 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="6"> Wickham is visited in jail by Fitzwilliam, who has his own reason for keeping quiet although Fitzwilliam has an alibi for the murder as he was publicly seen in the company of one of his soldiers' widow . Elizabeth assures the staff that they have nothing to fear - whilst cancelling the ball - but is intrigued by fragments of a torn letter whose writer sought to meet Darcy in the woods . She tells Hardcastle she saw the woman believed to be the ghost in the woods but was certain she was mortal . Later she comes upon a grave in the woods and is told it belongs to the Darcys' great grandfather, a reckless gambler who almost lost Pemberley . Whilst Georgiana turns down Alveston's marriage proposal the young lawyer supports Darcy at the inquest, whose jury finds Wickham guilty of murder and sends him to the Assizes . Furthermore Elizabeth learns that Wickham has used a false name to seduce a serving girl Louisa Bidwell, who has borne his child . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> </Th> <Td> "Episode Three" </Td> <Td> Daniel Percival </Td> <Td> Juliette Towhidi </Td> <Td> 28 December 2013 (2013 - 12 - 28) </Td> <Td> 6.05 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="6"> With Wickham in jail awaiting trial, he admits to Darcy that he is the father of Louisa Bidwell's child . Louisa tells Elizabeth that on the morning of the murder she had met Captain Denny and a woman - the same woman Elizabeth and some of the housemaids had seen in the woods - who would adopt the baby . Louisa changed her mind at the last moment however . She also saw Colonel Fitzwilliam at the abbey that morning . Sir Selwyn Hardcastle becomes aware that Wickham is the father of Louisa Bidwell's child and seems intent on using that information at the trial . Fitzwilliam soon falls out of favour and after Wickham is found guilty and sentenced to hang, it's left to Elizabeth to uncover the identity of the true killer . </Td> </Tr> </Table>

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