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.[1] It is the only BBC adaptation known to exist entirely. The 1957 adaptation is completely lost, while the 1965 version has only two surviving episodes, both of which are unavailable to be seen publicly.
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Genre | Historical drama |
Based on | A Tale of Two Cities 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 |
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Producer | Barry Letts |
Running time | 30 minutes |
Production company | BBC |
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Original network | BBC One |
Original release | 5 October (1980-10-05) – 23 November 1980 (1980-11-23) |
Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities | |
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