by William Makepeace Thackeray.
Adapted in six weekly instalments by Constance Cox and Ian Dallas.
[Starring] Joyce Redman
The action takes place at Joseph Sedley's house in Gillespie Street, London; in a gambling room: in the Sedleys' hotel; and in Becky's lodgings at Pumpernickel in Germany.
Time: 1828
Film sequences for 'Vanity Fair' made by the BBC Film Unit
(A BBC telerecording of the broadcast on February 1)