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The Count of Monte Cristo (1956 TV series)

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Starring
  
George Dolenz

No. of episodes
  
39

Production company(s)
  
ITC Entertainment TPA

Final episode date
  
30 November 1956

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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

  • George Dolenz as the title character
  • Fortunio Bonanova
  • Robert Cawdron
  • Nick Cravat

    • 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

    1. A Toy for the Infanta
    2. Marseilles
    3. The Luxembourg Affair
    4. The Texas Affair
    5. The Mazzini Affair
    6. The Carbonari
    7. The Devil's Emissary
    8. Bordeaux
    9. Flight to Calais
    10. Albania
    11. Naples
    12. The Art of Terror
    13. The Experiment
    14. Mecklenburg
    15. The Portuguese Affair
    16. Lichtenburg
    17. Burgundy
    18. Majorca
    19. Sicily
    20. A Matter of Justice
    21. Athens
    22. The Talleyrand Affair
    23. The Island
    24. The Barefoot Empress
    25. The Brothers
    26. Monaco
    27. Point, Counter Point
    28. The Black Death
    29. Victor Hugo
    30. Return to the Chateau D'if
    31. The Pen and the Sword
    32. The Sardinian Affair
    33. The Affair of the Three Napoleons
    34. The Deberry Affair
    35. The First Train to Paris
    36. The Golden Blade
    37. The Duel
    38. Andorra
    39. An Affair of Honour

    References

    The Count of Monte Cristo (1956 TV series) Wikipedia
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