The Count of Monte Cristo (1956)

Genre

drama television series

Country

United Kingdom

Length

2 seasons, 39 episodes

Rating

5.6 of 10 from 7 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a British television series from the 1950s. It follows the ongoing adventures of Edmond Dantes, who calls himself the Count of Monte Cristo. The show takes place during the reign of King Louis Philippe I in France.

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What happens

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. ITC produced a film based on the same source-material, The Count of Monte-Cristo, in 1975. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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