What is your favorite scene?

For me, the scene where Elizabeth reads his letter as he walks ever more distantly away with his dog. It was one of the few outdoor scenes, as well, and very beautifully shot.

Someone else has mentioned the scene where she is at the piano. Elizabeth Garvie's sweet, simple singing would have made me fall in love with her too!

Probably my #1 favorite scene is when Mary starts playing the piano and singing after Elizabeth is finished, and the look on Mr. Darcy's face turns sour. I love all the little humorous things that were put into this production. Mr. Collins' dancing, his "aquatic life hat"; Mrs. Bennet's manner in general; Mr. Hurst's "I can't abide a mountain" speech; the tendency of Lydia's lace to slip; etc.

This too is my favorite adaptation of "Pride and Prejudice". I haven't seen the newest one with Keira Knightley, but my first impression is that she is much too sexy to play Elizabeth, and she has that oddly pinched face that looks like she's always sucking in her nose and thrusting out her chin. I still intend to see it, but for me when I read the book I always see Elizabeth Garvie and David Rintoul in my mind's eye - in fact, the entire cast. This was the perfect cast and the perfect adaptation.

I am going to go off on a tangent and say I have two favorite scenes and one is of Lydia when she is overjoyed at being able to go to Brighton. All she can think about is how great it will be, Kitty can only think of her misery at not getting to go, Lizzy will just be glad when all the officers go and jane is just worried about making sure Lydia is modest. It is so intimate a picture of sisterly conversation it is perfect. I loved lydia in this movie. She is an airhead but a lovable one, yet she is not crude or vulgar. My other favorite scene is with Mrs. Bennet. It is daytime and Mrs. Bennet is trying to pursuade Mr. Bennet to visit Mr Bingley for the first time. Mr. Bennet says he will write to him that he can have whichever of the girls he chooses and askes her to pass him is pen. Of course he is joking but Mrs. Bennet is just a bit too slow to catch Mr. Bennet's wit and the reilizes the joke is on her and then starts off complaining of her nerves. She is terrific as a sweet, rather silly yet caring and typical meddlesome mother.

Of COURSE the first proposal (including the fuming Darcy thrashing his walking stick as he walks home after the rejection and the smirking Elizabeth as she reflects on the proposal afterwards) but really every single scene with Elizabeth and Darcy. I like the scene where Charlotte Lucas notices that Mr. Darcy is eavesdropping on Elizabeth and then Elizabeth confronts him saying "Do you not think that I expressed myself remarkably well, Mr. Darcy?" and then she tells him the saying "Keep your breath to cool your porridge," and continues "I shall use mine to swell my song." Both of her songs with him watching. I like it when she turns down dancing with him "I do not wish to dance and am certainly not wanting for a partner,..." Her dance with Collins is painful but funny (including Darcy's face as he witnesses it). Her subsequent dance with Darcy as they "talk by rules." Every pathetic visit that Darcy makes to Elizabeth at the Collins' Lady Catherine de Bourgh's soliloquys in her drawing room (about her melons and her wonderful constitution and how to get rid of red aunts and her natural musical taste) -- and Darcy's face during some of this. When Elizabeth and Darcy meet again suddenly by accident at Pemberly and the innane dialogue that is so wonderful as mentioned by others. When Elizabeth rushes in to Pemberly distressed (by the news of Wickam and Lydia) and Darcy rushes to her (don't you just want him to take her in his arms!). All of the scenes in the sitting room at Netherfield when Elizabeth is there to nurse Jane like when Darcy invites Elizabeth to dance a reel and she rejects him and then dares him to despise her. I also enjoyed some of Caroline Bingley's catty comments and obnoxious phoney looks. She was fun to hate! And the way she was chasing after Darcy while he was obviously so annoyed by her was pathetic and so enjoyable to watch (like when he is trying to write the letter to Georgianna and she keeps interrupting him!) Lady Catherine's visit to Elizabeth at the end! And, OF COURSE Elizabeth and Darcy's final stroll where they discuss their relationship and how it unfolded. I guess that's not exactly "a favourite scene" but these are the scenes I still watch after more than 30 viewings (I skip the Wickham stuff and most -- but not all -- of the Bennets, etc.)

To reach back in time for a moment, I have to agree that my favorite moment is the scene in which Darcy chokes out his first proposal, which Elizabeth rejects with some secret amazement.

I was first exposed to Jane Austen via this production, aired on US PBS in the early 1980s, and I was as captivated as anyone here, without exception.

I found Rintoul's so-called woodenness to be right for the character an I was taken with Ms. Garvie to a naive degree given that she was playing a part. I agree with someone who said this was very much a stage production; I found the actors reminded me often of stage plays I have seen in the past -- in the best sense.

I had one unusual experience later on -- PBS was having a fund-raiser and Anthony Andrews (Danger UXB, Scarlet Pimpernel, Brideshead Revisited) was live in the studio accepting telephone calls in Los Angeles. I dialed the number and got him on the telephone. Assuming he had been getting mostly calls from the ladies, I said something like, "Let me put in a word for the men," and fearing he'd mistake my intention, hastened to add, "Do you know Elizabeth Garvie?"

He said, "Why, yes! I'll be seeing her when I get back (to England)." He didn't say why he would be seeing her and I didn't take time to ask.

I just added, "Then please tell her how much we in America appreciate her Pride and Prejudice performance! Tell her for me that there are thousands and thousands of people here in the US who loved her work in that production!"

He said he would, and that was the end of the call, except that I declined to make a PBS donation, because I wanted the call to be about Ms. Garvie and nothing else. Hopefully the call was unusual enough that Mr. Edwards remembered to mention it to Elizabeth.

The first appearance of Mr Collins at Longbourn, when he's checking out the quality of the glasses, dinner service and cutlery under the beady eye of Mrs Bennet and both of his subsequent proposals to Lizzy and Charlotte are hilarious.

I love Mr Collins in this adaptation. When he's dancing with Lizzy at Netherfield, you can't help fearing he's going to cripple the poor girl. I also love the addition of the line 'What benefit can there be in change?' when Lizzy arrives at Huntsford. It sums him up perfectly and makes a nice contrast between someone like him and a genuinely good man like Darcy.

I also love the look on DR's face when he's accepted by Lizzy at last and the look on Lizzy's face when she spots Darcy's dog at Pemberley and realises the man himself is there.

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope

Actually the most touching moment for me in the entire movie is a tiny one - it's when Anne De Bourg impulsively moves over to a departing Lizzie, and, for a little bit, grasps both of her hands, as though drowning and trying desperately to clutch a life preserver. In that instant, I actually teared up a bit, so pitiful was the scene. All I could think was "I hope she gets to visit Lizzie and Georgiana once Lady C is reconciled, the poor thing."

My favorite scene is just after Elizabeth has refused Mr. Collins proposal of marriage. It's when her father says to her, "An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do NOT marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you DO." I love the look on her mother's face!