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Based on
  
Book by Baroness Orczy

Country of origin
  
United Kingdom

Final episode date
  
22 June 1956

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Genre
  
Swashbuckler

Starring
  
Marius Goring

First episode date
  
24 February 1956

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Directed by
  
David MacDonald Dennis Vance Michael McCarthy Wolf Rilla

Composer(s)
  
Sydney Torch John Bath Edwin Astley

Networks
  
ITV, Associated Television

Cast
  
Marius Goring, Patrick Troughton, Lucie Mannheim, Alexander Gauge, Robert Shaw

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The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel is a British television series based on the adventure novel of the same name by Baroness Emmuska Orczy. The series, produced by the Towers of London for Incorporated Television Programmes, was created by writer Michael Hogan; it ran from 1956 for a total of eighteen episodes.

Contents

Cast and characters

  • Marius Goring as Sir Percy Blakeney/the Scarlet Pimpernel
  • Stanley Van Beers as Chauvelin
  • Patrick Troughton as Sir Andrew Ffoulkes
  • Anthony Newlands as Lord Richard Hastings
  • Alexander Gauge as George, The Prince Regent
  • Lucie Mannheim as Countess La Valliere

    • Guest stars

    Many guest stars went on to appear in other ITC series:

  • Ivor Dean
  • Roger Delgado
  • William Franklyn
  • Conrad Phillips
  • Robert Shaw

    • Episode list

    Airdate is for ATV Midlands. ITV regions varied date and order.

    Other media

    Alpha Home Entertainment released Volume 1 of The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel on DVD in 2006. Volume 2 was released in 2007. Each volume contains four episodes from the television series.

    References

    The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel Wikipedia
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