Esther Waters is a British period television series which originally aired on BBC 2 in four episodes from 14 November to 5 December 1964.

[1] Like the novel it focuses on the struggle of Esther Waters who, in Victorian England, is abandoned by her lover when pregnant.

Despite the social stigma of being a fallen woman she chooses to raise the child as a single mother.

The novel had previously been made into a 1948 film Esther Waters.

A further television adaptation Esther Waters followed in 1977.