TV series · 1982
The Barchester Chronicles
“Donald Pleasence is the clergyman at the centre of a scandal.”
First aired 10 November 1982 Drama TMDB ↗
The Barchester Chronicles is a 1982 BBC television serial produced by Jonathan Powell and dramatised by Alan Plater, based on Anthony Trollope's first two Chronicles of Barsetshire, The Warden (1855) and Barchester Towers (1857). Against the sumptuous background of Peterborough Cathedral and its environs, one is carried into Trollope's world of the intriguing machinations of the clerical establishment of Barchester. Backed by the authenticity of the period detail, the portrayal of all the characters accurately conveys the whole range of human emotions within the stories.
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Donald Pleasence
as Septimus Harding
Nigel Hawthorne
as Dr Grantly
Alan Rickman
as Obadiah Slope
Barbara Flynn
as Mary Bold
Janet Maw
as Eleanor Harding
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Cyril Luckham
as Bishop Grantly
Denis Carey
as Skulpit
Joseph O'Conor
as Bunce
Ursula Howells
as Miss Thorne
Richard Leech
as Wilfred Thorne
John Ringham
as Finney
Jonathan Adams
as Quiverful
Phyllida Law
as Mrs Stanhope
Geraldine McEwan
as Mrs Proudie
Trevor Baxter
as Dr Gwynne
Peter Blythe
as Bertie Stanhope
Clive Swift
as Dr Proudie
Susan Hampshire
as La Signora Madeline Vesey Neroni
Angela Pleasence
as Mrs. Grantly
David Gwillim
as John Bold
Susan Edmonstone
as Charlotte Stanhope
William Redgrave
as Samuel Grantly
George Costigan
as Tom Towers