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5.8/10 TV No. of episodes 39 Production company(s) ITC EntertainmentTPA Final episode date 30 November 1956 | 7.6/10 IMDb Created by Sidney Marshall Country of origin United Kingdom Running time 25 minutes First episode date 20 February 1956 Network Associated Television | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Genres Adventure Film, Drama, Action/Adventure, Action fiction, Historical Fiction Cast George Dolenz, Nick Cravat, Henry Corden, Faith Domergue Similar Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte, The Adventures of the Sca, The Buccaneers, The Musketeers, Young Blades |
The Count of Monte Cristo was a 1956 ITC Entertainment/TPA television series adapted very loosely from the novel by Alexandre Dumas, adapted 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.
Contents
A 5-disc DVD set containing all thirty-nine episodes was released by Network Studio on 12 April 2010 (currently only in Region 2 PAL format; not yet available in the United States).
ITC produced a film based on the same source-material, The Count of Monte-Cristo, in 1975.
Main cast
Minor guest stars who would go on to later fame included Patrick Troughton, Stratford Johns, Cyril Shaps, Anthony Newlands, John Barrard, Raf De La Torre and Nigel Davenport.
Episode list
- A Toy for the Infanta
- Marseilles
- The Luxembourg Affair
- The Texas Affair
- The Mazzini Affair
- The Carbonari
- The Devil's Emissary
- Bordeaux
- Flight to Calais
- Albania
- Naples
- The Art of Terror
- The Experiment
- Mecklenburg
- The Portuguese Affair
- Lichtenburg
- Burgundy
- Majorca
- Sicily
- A Matter of Justice
- Athens
- The Talleyrand Affair
- The Island
- The Barefoot Empress
- The Brothers
- Monaco
- Point, Counter Point
- The Black Death
- Victor Hugo
- Return to the Chateau D'if
- The Pen and the Sword
- The Sardinian Affair
- The Affair of the Three Napoleons
- The Deberry Affair
- The First Train to Paris
- The Golden Blade
- The Duel
- Andorra
- An Affair of Honour