Notorious Woman

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| genre = Television drama

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| writer = Harry W. Junkin

| director = Waris Hussein

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| starring = Rosemary Harris
George Chakiris
Jeremy Irons

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| theme_music_composer = Anthony Isaac

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| country = United Kingdom

| language = English

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| producer = Pieter Rogers

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| network = BBC2

| first_aired = {{Start date|1974|11|03|df=y}}

| last_aired = {{End date|1974}}

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Notorious Woman is a 1974 BBC television serial based on the life of the French author George Sand. It starred Rosemary Harris in the title role. The seven episodes were written by Harry W. Junkin and directed by Waris Hussein.

In the United States, the series was broadcast in 1975–1976 as part of the fifth season of Masterpiece Theatre on PBS.[https://web.archive.org/web/20080121170433/http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/archive/programs_alpha.html#N Masterpiece Theater online Archive]

For reasons never volunteered by the BBC, the series was shelved, never re-released nor given an explanation as to why.

Principal cast

Awards and nominations

References

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  • The New York Times. "TV: Notorious Woman", 20 November 1975
  • The New York Times. "The ' 75 Season – A Few Nuggets Amid the Dross", 28 December 1975
  • Schor, Naomi. George Sand and Idealism. Gender and culture. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993.