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- The Pallisers is Simon Raven's dramatisation for television of six great novels by Anthony Trollope - the finest sequence of fiction ever to be based on British Parliamentary life.
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The Pallisers is a 1974 BBC television adaptation of Anthony Trollope's Palliser novels. Set in Victorian era England with a backdrop of parliamentary life, Simon Raven 's dramatisation covers six novels and follows the events and characters over two decades.
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When the Duchess dies unexpectedly, Palliser comes to realise how necessary she has been to his happiness. She has been his only true friend: all others were either merely political allies or her friends. The widower is left to deal with the marriages of two of his three grown children, neither of which initially meets with his approval.
Dramatised for BBC2 in 1974, The Pallisers remains one of the most ambitious TV adaptations ever undertaken. Covering six books, spanning 20 years and with a supberb cast, The Pallisers took 13 months to film, and the result is a true epic.
The Pallisers is dramatised by Martyn Wade. Martyn and producer Cherry Cookson were the creative team behind the hugely successful radio version of The Barchester Chronicles. Trollope' six Palliser novels adapted over 12 episodes and first broadcast in 2008.
The Palliser series is a series of political fiction novels written by one of the noteworthy English authors named Anthony Trollope. This series consists of a total of 6 books published between the years 1865 and 1880.
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The Pallisers is based on Trollope's six wonderful political novels, and this production is very faithful to the source material. I was a little nervous when I heard that the first eight episodes were being released because I was afraid that they wouldn't be as good as I had remembered.
