A Tale of Two Cities (1980 TV series)
British television series which first aired in 1980 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the other television adaptation of the same year, see A Tale of Two Cities (1980 film).
A Tale of Two Cities is a British television series which first aired on BBC 1 in 1980. It is an adaptation of the novel A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens.[2] Paul Shelley plays the duel roles of Sydney Carton and Charles Darnay, the first actor to do so since William Farnum in the 1917 silent adaptation.[3] Two weeks later, an American production was released featuring Chris Sarandon in the same duel roles.[4]
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A Tale of Two Cities | |
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Genre | Historical drama |
Based on | A Tale of Two Cities 1859 novel by Charles Dickens |
Written by | Peter Harding |
Directed by | Michael E. Briant |
Starring | Paul Shelley Sally Osborne Nigel Stock |
Composer | Paul Reade |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of series | 1 |
No. of episodes | 8 |
Production | |
Producer | Barry Letts |
Cinematography | Elmer Cossey |
Running time | 30 minutes |
Production company | BBC |
Original release | |
Network | BBC One |
Release | 5 October (1980-10-05)[1] – 23 November 1980 (1980-11-23)[1] |
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It is the only BBC adaptation known to exist entirely.[citation needed]