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The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1966)

The Hunchback of Notre Dame poster
Genre
drama
Country
United Kingdom
Length
1 season, 7 episodes
Rating
9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This 1966 British television series adapts the classic Victor Hugo novel. It follows the deformed bell-ringer Quasimodo and the Romani woman Esmeralda in medieval Paris.

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What happens

The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a 1966 British television series, an adaptation of the 1831 novel by Victor Hugo, directed by James Cellan Jones. It starred Peter Woodthorpe as Quasimodo and Gay Hamilton as Esmeralda. The screenplay was by Vincent Tilsley. Although some photographs exist, no recordings of the production are known to have survived. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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