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The Count of Monte Cristo (1956 TV series)

{{Short description|1956 British TV drama series}}

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| alt = Series title over an image of crossed swords

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| creator = Sidney Marshall

| starring = George Dolenz

| cinematography = Lionel Banes

| country = United Kingdom

| num_episodes = 39

| runtime = 25 minutes

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| network = ATV for ITV

| first_aired = {{start date|1956|2|20|df=y}}

| last_aired = {{end date|1956|12|7|df=y}}

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The Count of Monte Cristo is a 1956 British cult swashbuckler adventure television series produced by ITC Entertainment/TPA and adapted very loosely from the 1844 novel by Alexandre Dumas by Sidney Marshall. It premiered in the UK in early 1956 and ran for 39 thirty-minute episodes dramatizing the continuing adventures of Edmond Dantès, the self-styled Count of Monte Cristo, during the reign of Louis Philippe I d'Orléans, King of the French from 1830 to 1848. The first twelve episodes were filmed in the United States, at the Hal Roach studios, with the rest being filmed at ITC's traditional home of Elstree.{{cite web |url=http://www.angelfire.com/retro/cta/UK/CountOfMonteCristo.htm |title=The Count of Monte Cristo |accessdate=22 April 2008 |author1=Alan Keeling |author2=Alan Collins |author3=D.W. McGregor |date=August 2006 |work=UK Historical TV Adventure series |publisher=The Classic TV Archive |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20080421043000/http://www.angelfire.com/retro/cta/UK/CountOfMonteCristo.htm |archivedate = 21 April 2008}}

ITC produced a film based on the same source-material, The Count of Monte-Cristo, in 1975.

Cast

Guest stars who would go on to later fame included Patrick Troughton, Stratford Johns, Cyril Shaps, Anthony Newlands, John Barrard, Raf De La Torre and Nigel Davenport.

Episodes

  1. "A Toy for the Infanta"
  2. "Marseilles"
  3. "The Luxembourg Affair"
  4. "The Texas Affair"
  5. "The Mazzini Affair"
  6. "The Carbonari"
  7. "The Devil's Emissary"
  8. "Bordeaux"
  9. "Flight to Calais"
  10. "Albania"
  11. "Naples"
  12. "The Art of Terror"
  13. "The Experiment"
  14. "Mecklenburg"
  15. "The Portuguese Affair"
  16. "Lichtenburg"
  17. "Burgundy"
  18. "Majorca"
  19. "Sicily"
  20. "A Matter of Justice"
  21. "Athens"
  22. "The Talleyrand Affair"
  23. "The Island"
  24. "The Barefoot Empress"
  25. "The Brothers"
  26. "Monaco"
  27. "Point, Counter Point"
  28. "The Black Death"
  29. "Victor Hugo"
  30. "Return to the Chateau D'if"
  31. "The Pen and the Sword"
  32. "The Sardinian Affair"
  33. "The Affair of the Three Napoleons"
  34. "The Deberry Affair"
  35. "The First Train to Paris"
  36. "The Golden Blade"
  37. "The Duel"
  38. "Andorra"
  39. "An Affair of Honour"

Home media

A 5-disc DVD set containing all thirty-nine re-mastered and uncut, original episodes was released by Network Distributing Ltd Home Entertainment/Granada Ventures Ltd on 12 April 2010 (currently only in Region 2 PAL format; not yet available in the United States).

References

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External links

  • {{IMDb title|0047723|The Count of Monte Cristo}}

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Category:1950s British drama television series

Category:1956 British television series debuts

Category:1956 British television series endings

Category:British adventure television series

Category:Black-and-white British television shows

Category:British drama television series

Category:British English-language television shows

Category:ITV television dramas

Category:Television shows based on The Count of Monte Cristo

Category:Television series by ITC Entertainment

Category:Television series set in the 1810s

Category:Television series set in the 1820s

Category:Television series set in the 1830s

Category:Television shows shot at British National Studios

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