Why the PBS version was not good the limitations

Why the PBS version was not good it because they had a very low budget to do the film and it would only last an hour.

You can't make a good film based on a book with those thing limiting what you can do.

The company that made the film went out of business,

This film was one of PBS's master piece films a series of films they did based on award winning books.

Can you believe that this version could be considered a master piece film?