The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1956)

Directed by

David MacDonald

Genre

drama television series, historical television series

Country

United Kingdom

Length

1 season, 18 episodes

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A British aristocrat leads a double life as a daring hero who rescues people from danger during the French Revolution. He outwits his enemies with clever disguises and narrow escapes.

swashbucklinglight-heartedadventuroussuspensefulromantichistoricdaringwitty

What happens

The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel is a 1955–1956 British television series based on the 1905 novel The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy. The series was created by writer Michael Hogan and produced by the Towers of London for Incorporated Television Programmes. It was first screened in Britain in an eighteen-episode run beginning on 28 September 1955. It was one of the first drama series shown on the fledging network, which had only begun transmission in London the week before. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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