The Boston Globe, December 5th, 1987
After the dreariest of starts with "The Bretts," "Masterpiece Theater" gets back on track tomorrow night with a sparkling one-part adaptation of Jane Austen's "Northanger Abbey" at 9 p.m. on Channel 2. Sparkling? Jane Austen? Yes, ye who have suffered through high school travails of "Pride and Prejudice." And witty, suspenseful, brisk and sexy, to boot. "Northanger" isn't in the first tier of British TV adaptations of novels but is right at the top of the second tier, along with "Bleak House" and "Silas Marner." "Abbey," in fact was produced and directed by the same team that brought "Marner"...
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