Little Women is a British television mini-series broadcast by the BBC from 1950 to 1951 in six parts. An adaptation by Winifred Oughton and Brenda R. Thompson of Louisa May Alcott's 1868-69 two-volume novel Little Women. The lost series was broadcast live and the transmissions were not recorded. The production was the first adaptation of the novel by the BBC. There were later adaptations in 1958, 1970 and 2017.