''The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel'' is a British television series based on the 1905
adventure novel of the same name by
Baroness Emmuska Orczy
Baroness Emma Orczy (full name: Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála Orczy de Orci) (; 23 September 1865 – 12 November 1947), usually known as Baroness Orczy (the name under which she was published) or to her family and friends as Em ...
. The series was created by writer
Michael Hogan and produced by the
Towers of London for
Incorporated Television Programmes. It was first screened in Britain in 1955 to 1956 in an eighteen-episode run beginning on 28 September 1955. It was one of the first drama series shown on the fledging network, which had only begun transmission in London the week before.
Cast and characters
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Marius Goring
Marius Re Goring, (23 May 191230 September 1998) was a British stage and screen actor. He is best remembered for the four films he made with Powell & Pressburger, particularly as Conductor 71 in '' A Matter of Life and Death'' and as Julian Cr ...
as Sir Percy Blakeney/The Scarlet Pimpernel
*Stanley Van Beers as
Chauvelin
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Patrick Troughton
Patrick George Troughton (; 25 March 1920 – 28 March 1987) was an English actor who was classically trained for the stage but became known for his roles in television and film. His work included appearances in several fantasy, science fiction ...
as Sir Andrew Ffoulkes
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Anthony Newlands
Anthony Newlands (31 January 1925, London – 6 October 1995), was a British actor, born Raymond Gordon Newland.
His parents were Lilian Elizabeth (née Manning) and Frederick Stanley. Newland had two sisters: Jean Lillian Newland (born 24 J ...
as Lord Richard Hastings
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Alexander Gauge
Alexander Gauge (29 July 1914 – 29 August 1960) was a British actor best known for playing Friar Tuck in ''The Adventures of Robin Hood'' from 1955 to 1959.
Born in a Methodist Mission station in Wenzhou in China,[Lucie Mannheim
Lucie Mannheim (30 April 1899 – 17 July 1976) was a German singer and actress.
Life and career
Mannheim was born in Köpenick, Berlin, where she studied drama and quickly became a popular figure appearing on stage in plays and musicals. Among ...]
as Countess la Valliere
Production notes
*Lucie Mannheim was married to Marius Goring
*Filming was at
Elstree Studios
Elstree Studios is a generic term which can refer to several current and demolished British film studios and television studios based in or around the town of Borehamwood and village of Elstree in Hertfordshire, England. Production studios ha ...
, London
*The series' sets were designed by the
art director
Art director is the title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, film industry, film and television, the Internet, and video games.
It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and ...
Duncan Sutherland
Duncan Sutherland (1 August 1905 – 1967) was a Scottish-born art director, based in England where he designed the sets for over eighty films and television series between the early 1930s and mid-1960s. Sutherland spent much of the 1940s employ ...
.
*Marius Goring previously played the role of Sir Percy in a
radio show
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Radio networ ...
which lasted from 1952 to 1953 in a total of 50 episodes. The series is now available to listen to for free on the
Internet Archive
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.
[''The Scarlet Pimpernel'' radio show on th]
Internet Archive
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*It was originally planned to produce 39 episodes but only 18 were eventually filmed and broadcast.
Guest stars
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Dates are for the first broadcast on Independent Television in London (Associated-Rediffusion), Midlands and Northern.
released Volume 1 of ''The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel'' on DVD in 2006. Volume 2 was released in 2007. Each volume contains four episodes from the television series. The cover art used on these releases, however, erroneously used photos of Marius Goring in his character as Conductor 71 from his 1946 film ''
''.
Network (UK) released the entire 18-episode series on a three disc DVD set on 30 July 2012 with some extras included: a behind the scenes photo gallery.