St. Ives (1955)

Genre

action & adventure

Country

United Kingdom

Length

1 season, 6 episodes

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This 1950s BBC miniseries adapts Robert Louis Stevenson's novel. A man gets caught up in adventures involving a mysterious inheritance and a French prisoner. The episodes are among the few surviving BBC programs from that time.

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What happens

St. Ives was a television mini-series broadcast in 1955. Adapted by producer Rex Tucker from the novel of the same name by Robert Louis Stevenson, it aired on the BBC for a total of six 30-minute episodes. Cast included William Russell, Noelle Middleton, and Francis Matthews. The most notable aspect of the production is that, unlike many BBC series of the era, the episodes still exist. Later BBC television versions of the story aired in 1960 and 1967, but are believed to have been wiped. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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