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21 November 1974. (1974-11-21) The Pallisers is a 1974 BBC television adaptation of Anthony Trollope 's Palliser novels. Set in Victorian era England with a backdrop of parliamentary life, Simon Raven 's dramatisation covers six novels and follows the events and characters over two decades. [1]
Brass Target is a 1978 American suspense war film based on the 1974 novel The Algonquin Project by Frederick Nolan. [2] The film was produced by Berle Adams and Arthur Lewis and directed by John Hough. [3] It stars Sophia Loren, John Cassavetes, Robert Vaughn, George Kennedy, Patrick McGoohan and Max von Sydow. [4]
Why England Slept. Categories: American non-fiction books by writer. Books written by presidents of the United States. Books by writer. Works by John F. Kennedy.
Cambridge Spies. Cambridge Spies is a four-part British drama miniseries written by Peter Moffat and directed by Tim Fywell, [1] that was first broadcast on BBC Two in May 2003 and is based on the true story of four brilliant young men at the University of Cambridge who are recruited to spy for the Soviet Union in 1934.
Bleak House. (2005 TV serial) Bleak House is a fifteen-part BBC television drama serial adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel of the same name, which was originally published in 1852–53 as itself a print serialisation over 20 months. Produced with an all-star cast, the serial was shown on BBC One from 27 October to 16 December 2005, and ...
Network. BBC One. Release. 27 December. (2011-12-27) –. 29 December 2011. (2011-12-29) Great Expectations is a three-part BBC television drama adaptation by Sarah Phelps of the Charles Dickens ’s 1861 novel of the same name, starring Ray Winstone as Magwitch, Gillian Anderson as Miss Havisham, [1] Douglas Booth as Pip, Vanessa Kirby as ...
A Confederacy of Dunces is a picaresque novel by American novelist John Kennedy Toole which reached publication in 1980, eleven years after Toole's death. [2] Published through the efforts of writer Walker Percy (who also contributed a foreword) and Toole's mother, Thelma, the book became first a cult classic, then a mainstream success; it earned Toole a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for Fiction ...
Screen One is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and distributed by BBC Worldwide, that was transmitted on BBC One from 1989 to 1998. [1] A total of six series were broadcast, incorporating sixty individual films, several of which were broadcast as stand-alone specials.