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Set 1 contains the first 8 episodes of the BBC's 26-episode serialization of Anthony Trollope's Palliser novels (1865-1880), introducing Plantagenet Palliser and Lady Glencora, whose politically expedient marriage sets the stage for the rest of the Palliser dynasty's saga. The DVD's special features include a 36-page viewer's guide, an interview with Susan Hampshire (Lady Glencora), and information on Anthony Trollope, his fiction, and the Trollope Society. --Tara Chace
| ACTORS: | Philip Latham, Susan Hampshire |
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 01 January, 2000 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Acorn Media |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Color, Box set |
| TYPE: | Television |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| UPC: | 054961408894 |
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Customer Reviews of The Pallisers, Set 1
Why can't it go on forever? In my teens, I had a great love affair with Trollope novels, and usually am skeptical of tv renditions of my favorite reads. But the BBC's "Pallisers" portrays Trollope's political novels beautifully. (I remember watching this series in the 70's when I was a flight attendant with layovers in Salt Lake City -- this series was a warm friend in a city that rolled up the sidewalks at 5pm.)
Susan Hampshire's Glencora is perfection. She is the pivotal character who lights up the entire production. All of the characters are developed at such a comfortable pace, you're surprised when you find you've begun to love some you detested at first glance.
If you're not a great fan of Masterpiece Theater-type programs, you might find the first few episodes a little slow-moving as they set the stage for the gigantic group of characters and subplots to follow. But bear with it. The payoff is some of the best television ever filmed.
Fine, fine adaptation of Trollope's Palliser novels
This series adapts the six lengthy "Palliser" novels by Anthony Trollope into 26 episodes of delight and intrigue in Victorian England.
Susan Hampshire's Lady Glencora is without doubt the center of this series. Forced into a marriage with the wealthy but distracted Plantagenet Palliser, who seems far more interested in becoming Chancellor of the Exchequer than in his marriage, Lady Glencora must balance her relationship with her husband against that with another man, whom she has truly loved. Watching as the two Pallisers adjust their relationship to find their love is an absolute delight.
But this story is more than just the Pallisers. As the six lengthy novels are boiled down to 26 episodes (8 in the first set), we meet Phineas Finn, an Irish MP who is the title character of two of the books--one deemed a fine political novel, the other a suspenseful masterpiece. Both are well incorporated into the series. Barbara Murray amazes as Madame Max Goesler, a wealthy widow who interacts with the aristocratic Pallisers without ever letting her great good sense be overwhelmed by the privilege of associating with the creme de la creme.
Six novels boiled into a series requires a great ensemble cast, and one is provided. Such noted British TV actors as Derek Jacobi (later of I, Claudius) and Penelope Keith (of To the Manor Born) play small but important parts as the foppish Lord Fawn and his sister.
But in the final analysis, it all comes back to the relationship between Hampshire's Lady Glencora and Philip Latham's Plantagenet.
Well worth watching.
You Must See Them ALL - Brilliant Series!
I just love the regency era - the pomp the circumstance and especially the clothes. I'd never heard of the this particular series before but went completely by the period. I AM SO GLAD that I did! THis was an absolutely amazing series.... I had also never before been aware of Susan Hampshire and must now say I am a devoted fan.
The story tells of a young heiress who lives life to the fullest, has her flirtations and falls in love with what appears to be a fortune hunter, but before he gets his hooks into her she is made to enter into a betrothal and marriage with a 'no-nonsense', very staid peer of the realm (Philip Latham) and heir to the Duke of Omnium - who, by the way, was interested in another as well. It goes on to show their struggles to adjust to one another - with I might add, the female having to make the most adjustments as the fact that her being in love with another just "....did not signify!"
The trials and the tribulations of their struggles, and eventual accommodations to one another amidst the politics of the day are a rare treat and a masterpiece of brilliant acting.
I highly recommend this set and recommend picking up Sets 2 and 3 in order to perpetuate your total enjoyment of a magnificently brilliant series!