The Pallisers (TV series)

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The Pallisers (TV series) is a 1970s BBC television drama based on Anthony Trollope’s political novels, chronicling the intertwined personal and political lives of an aristocratic Victorian family.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf BBC television drama
British television series
television series
adaptationOfWorkBy Anthony Trollope NERFINISHED
basedOn Anthony Trollope novels
Palliser series
surface form: Palliser novels
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
creator Simon Raven
director David Giles
Hugh David
Ronald Wilson
distributor BBC
endTime 21 November 1974
firstAired 1974
genre drama
historical drama
political drama
hasDVDRelease yes
hasFormat colour television
leadActor Anna Massey NERFINISHED
Barbara Murray NERFINISHED
Derek Jacobi NERFINISHED
Moray Watson NERFINISHED
Philip Latham NERFINISHED
Roland Culver NERFINISHED
Susan Hampshire NERFINISHED
mainCharacter Dolly Longstaffe
Lady Glencora Palliser
Lizzie Eustace NERFINISHED
Marie Goesler
Phineas Finn
Plantagenet Palliser
numberOfEpisodes 26
numberOfSeasons 1
originalChannel BBC Two
originalLanguage English
originallyBroadcastIn 1970s
originalNetwork BBC Two
portrays British politics
Victorian aristocracy
parliamentary life
producer Martin Lisemore NERFINISHED
productionCompany BBC
runtimePerEpisode 50 minutes
screenwriter Simon Raven
setInCity London, England
surface form: London
setInCountry United Kingdom NERFINISHED
settingPeriod Victorian era
startTime 19 January 1974

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Palliser series adaptedAs The Pallisers (TV series)
Palliser family adaptedIn The Pallisers (TV series)
this entity surface form: The Pallisers (1974 BBC television series)
John Nathan-Turner workedOn The Pallisers (TV series)
this entity surface form: The Pallisers