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Masterpiece Theatre – the First 35 Years – 1971-2006 Masterpiece Theatre The First 35 Years: 1971-2006 Season 1: 1971-1972 The First Churchills The Spoils of Poynton Henry James The Possessed Fyodor Dostoyevsky Pere Goriot Honore de Balzac Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy The Gambler Fyodor Dostoyevsky Resurrection Leo Tolstoy Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons The Six Wives of Henry VIII ▼ Keith Michell Elizabeth R ▼ [original for screen] The Last of the Mohicans James Fenimore Cooper Season 2: 1972-1973 Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackery Cousin Bette Honore de Balzac The Moonstone Wilkie Collins Tom Brown's School Days Thomas Hughes Point Counter Point Aldous Huxley The Golden Bowl ▼ Henry James Season 3: 1973-1974 Clouds of Witness ▼ Dorothy L. Sayers The Man Who Was Hunting Himself [original for the screen] N.J. Crisp The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club Dorothy L. Sayers The Little Farm H.E. Bates Upstairs, Downstairs, I John Hawkesworth (original for tv) The Edwardians Vita Sackville-West Season 4: 1974-1975 Murder Must Advertise ▼ Dorothy L. Sayers Upstairs, Downstairs, II John Hawkesworth (original for tv) Country Matters, I H.E. Bates Vienna 1900 Arthur Schnitzler The Nine Tailors Dorothy L. Sayers Season 5: 1975-1976 Shoulder to Shoulder [documentary] Notorious Woman Harry W. Junkin Upstairs, Downstairs, III John Hawkesworth (original for tv) Cakes and Ale W. Somerset Maugham Sunset Song James Leslie Mitchell Season 6: 1976-1977 Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert How Green Was My Valley Richard Llewellyn Five Red Herrings Dorothy L. Sayers Upstairs, Downstairs, IV John Hawkesworth (original for tv) Poldark, I ▼ Winston Graham Season 7: 1977-1978 Dickens of London Wolf Mankowitz I, Claudius ▼ Robert Graves Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy Our Mutual Friend Charles Dickens Poldark, II ▼ Winston Graham Season 8: 1978-1979 The Mayor of Casterbridge ▼ Thomas Hardy The Duchess of Duke Street, I ▼ Mollie Hardwick Country Matters, II H.E. Bates and A.E. Coppard Lillie ▼ David Butler & John Gorrie [original for tv] Season 9: 1979-1980 Kean Giles Playfair Love for Lydia H.E. Bates The Duchess of Duke Street, II ▼ Mollie Hardwick My Son, My Son Howard Spring Disraeli David Butler Season 10: 1980-1981 Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen Testament of Youth Vera Brittain Danger UXB ▼ John Hawkesworth [original for tv] Thérèse Raquin Èmile Zola 10th Anniversary Favorites The Golden Bowl Cousin Bette Upstairs, Downstairs Sunset Song Season 11: 1981-1982 A Town Like Alice ▼ Nevil Shute Edward and Mrs. Simpson Frances Donaldson The Flame Trees of Thika ▼ Elspeth Huxley I Remember Nelson Hugh Whitemore Love in a Cold Climate Nancy Mitford Flickers Roy Clarke Season 12: 1982-1983 To Serve Them All My Days R.F. Delderfield The Good Soldier Ford Maddox Ford Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years Ferdinand Fairfax On Approval Frederick Lonsdale [play] Drake's Venture [original for the screen] Private Schulz [original for the screen] Jack Pulman Sons and Lovers D.H. Lawrence Season 13: 1983-1984 Pictures Roy Clarke The Citadel A.J. Cronin The Irish RM, I Martin Ross & Edith Somerville The Tale of Beatrix Potter [original for the screen] John Hawkesworth Nancy Astor [original for the screen] Derek Marlowe Season 14: 1984-1985 The Barchester Chronicles Anthony Trollope The Jewel in the Crown ▼ Paul Scott All for Love Tasha Tudor Strangers and Brothers C.P. Snow Season 15: 1985-1986 The Last Place on Earth ▼ Roland Huntford Bleak House Charles Dickens Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy [original for the screen] By the Sword Divided, I Mollie Hardwick The Irish RM, II Martin Ross & Edith Somerville Season 16: 1986-1987 Paradise Postponed John Mortimore Goodbye Mr. Chips James Hilton Lost Empires J.B. Priestley Silas Marner George Eliot Star Quality: Noel Coward Stories Noel Coward The Death of the Heart Elizabeth Bowen Love Song [original for the screen] Season 17: 1987-1988 The Bretts, I [original for the screen] Harry Duffin Northanger Abbey ▼ Jane Austen Sorrell & Son Warwick Deeping Fortunes of War Olivia Manning Day After the Fair Thomas Hardy David Copperfield Charles Dickens By the Sword Divided, II Elizabeth Bowen Season 18: 1988-1989 A Perfect Spy John LeCarre Heaven on Earth [original for the screen] Margaret Atwood A Wreath of Roses [original for the screen] Peter Prince A Very British Coup Chris Mullin All Passion Spent Vita Sackville-West Talking Heads: Bed Among the Lentils Alan Bennett Christabel Christabel Bielenberg The Charmer Patrick Hamilton The Bretts, II Season 19: 1989-1990 And a Nightingale Sang C.P. Taylor [play] Precious Bane Mary Webb Glory Enough for All [original for the screen] Grahame Woods A Tale of Two Cities ▼ Charles Dickens The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman After the War Alice Adams The Real Charlotte Martin Ross The Dressmaker Beryl Bainbridge Traffik [original for the screen] Simon Moore Piece of Cake Derek Robinson Season 20: 1990-1991 The Heat of the Day ▼ Elizabeth Bowen The Ginger Tree Oswald Wynd Jeeves & Wooster, I ▼ P.G. Wodehouse Scoop A Room of One's Own Virginia Woolf 20th Anniversary Favorites: Upstairs, Downstairs The Flame Trees of Thika On Approval I, Claudius All For Love: A Dedicated Man Elizabeth R The Jewel in the Crown The Tale of Beatrix Potter The Six Wives of Henry VIII Backstage at Masterpiece Theatre House of Cards ▼ Michael Dobbs The Shiralee D’Arcy Niland Summer's Lease John Mortimore Season 21: 1991-1992 A Murder of Quality John LeCarre Sleepers [original for the screen] She's Been Away [original for the screen] Stephen Poliakoff Parnell and the Englishwoman [original for the screen] Hugh Leonard Titmuss Regained John Mortimore Adam Bede George Eliot A Doll's House Henrik Ibsen [play] Clarissa Samuel Richardson Henry V William Shakespeare A Perfect Hero Christopher Matthew Portrait of a Marriage Nigel Nicholson Season 22: 1992-1993 A Question of Attribution Alan Bennett [play] The Best of Friends Hugh Whitmore Memento Mori Muriel Spark Two Monologues: In My Defense/A Chip in the Sugar The Secret Agent Joseph Conrad Jeeves & Wooster, II ▼ P.G. Wodehouse The Countess Alice [original for the screen] Allan Cubitt Impromptu [original for the screen] Sarah Kernochan The Blackheath Poisonings Julian Symons Hedda Gabler Henrik Ibsen [play] The Black Velvet Gown ▼ Catherine Cookson Calling the Shots [original for the screen] Laura Lamson Doctor Finlay, I A.J. Cronin Season 23: 1993-1994 Selected Exits Gwyn Thomas Jeeves & Wooster, III ▼ P.G. Wodehouse Where Angels Fear to Tread E.M. Forster Sharpe ▼ Bernard Cornwell To Play the King ▼ Michael Dobbs Body & Soul ▼ Frank Conroy Middlemarch ▼ George Eliot A Foreign Field [original for the screen] Roy Clarke The Best Intentions Ingmar Bergman Season 24: 1994-1995 The Blue Boy [original for the screen] The Rector's Wife Joanna Trollope Dandelion Dead [original for the screen] Michael Chaplin Doctor Finlay, II A.J. Cronin Jeeves & Wooster, IV ▼ P.G. Wodehouse The Cinder Path Catherine Cookson Martin Chuzzlewit ▼ Charles Dickens Hard Times ▼ Charles Dickens Sharpe, II ▼ Bernard Cornwell Season 25: 1995-1996 The Buccaneers ▼ Edith Wharton The Great Kandinsky [original for the screen] Prime Suspect: The Lost Child [original for the screen] Lynda LaPlante The Choir Joanna Trollope The Politician's Wife [original for the screen] Paula Milne The Final Cut ▼ Michael Dobbs Prime Suspect: Inner Circles [original for the screen] Lynda LaPlante Heavy Weather P.G. Wodehouse The Peacock Spring Rumer Godden Bramwell, Series I [original for the screen] Prime Suspect: Scent of Darkness [original for the screen] Lynda LaPlante Signs and Wonders [original for the screen] Michael Eaton Interview Day [original for the screen] Jack Rosenthal Season 26: 1996-1997 Moll Flanders ▼ Daniel Defoe Broken Glass Arthur Miller [play] Bramwell, Series II [original for the screen] Nostromo ▼ Joseph Conrad A Royal Scandal ▼ [original for the screen] Breaking the Code Andrew Hodges Prime Suspect: Errors of Judgement [original for the screen] Lynda LaPlante Persuasion ▼ Jane Austen Rebecca ▼ Daphne DuMaurier Season 27: 1997-1998 The Mill on the Floss ▼ George Eliot The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Anne Bronte The Moonstone ▼ Wilkie Collins Bramwell, Series III [original for the screen] Rhodes [original for the screen] Reckless ▼ [original for the screen] The Wingless Bird ▼ Catherine Cookson The Woman in White ▼ Wilkie Collins Painted Lady [original for the screen] Far from the Madding Crowd ▼ Thomas Hardy Season 28: 1998-1999 King Lear ▼ William Shakespeare (play) Wuthering Heights ▼ Emily Bronte A Respectable Trade Philippa Gregory The Unknown Soldier ▼ Peter Barwood [original for the screen] The Prince of Hearts [original for the screen] Lee Hall Our Mutual Friend ▼ Charles Dickens Bramwell, Series IV [original for the screen] Cider with Rosie ▼ Laurie Lee [memoirs] Reckless: The Sequel ▼ [original for the screen] Frenchman's Creek ▼ Daphne DuMaurier Great Expectations ▼ Charles Dickens Goodnight Mr. Tom ▼ Michelle Magorian Season 29: 1999-2000 A Rather English Marriage ▼ Angela Lambert Aristocrats ▼ Stella Tillyard Lost for Words ▼ Deric Longden Shooting the Past ▼ [original for the screen] Stephen Poliakoff Bramwell, Series V [original for the screen] Madame Bovary ▼ Gustav Flaubert All the King's Men ▼ Robert Penn Warren The Turn of the Screw ▼ Henry James David Copperfield ▼ Charles Dickens Seeing Red Coral Atkins Monsignor Renard [original for the screen] Russell Lewis Season 30: 2000-2001 Oliver Twist ▼ Charles Dickens Cora Unashamed ▼ Langston Hughes (short story) Her Majesty Mrs. Brown The Railway Children ▼ E. Nesbit Stiff Upper Lips The American ▼ Henry James Bramwell, Series VI [original for the screen] Anna Karenina ▼ Leo Tolstoy Wives and Daughters ▼ Elizabeth Gaskell The Song of the Lark ▼ Willa Cather Take a Girl Like You Kingsley Amis Talking Heads 2: Miss Fozzard Finds Her Feet Alan Bennett [original for the screen] Season 31: 2001 - 2002 The Merchant of Venice William Shakespeare [play] The Ponder Heart ▼ Eudora Welty The Cazalets ▼ Elizabeth Jane Howard My Uncle Silas ▼ H.E.
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