Product Description Victorian England's upper class leaps to life in this BBC jewel from the 1970s. Based on Anthony Trollope's novels, The Pallisers was a huge hit on both sides of the Atlantic, winning raves and an Emmy® Award for the splendid Susan Hampshire. Series 3 includes the final nine episodes. Each is 4 cassettes or 4 DVDs (with extras). "Powerfully addictive...in the grand tradition of Upstairs, Downstairs... elegant, historical soap opera"-Time. Simon says: Before he got into the theater, Sir Michael Gambon swept up after and served tea to factory workers. He left school at age 15. From the Back Cover "Wonderfully detailed etchings of manners, fashion and Parliamentary maneuvering." - The New York Times Based on the six "political" novels of Anthony Trollope, The Pallisers follows the fortunes of three generations in one aristocratic family and their circle of friends and foes. In this lavishly staged and beautifully acted BBC production, wealth and power mix with scandal, danger and bitter disappointment to produce powerfully addictive drama. In the last nine episodes, the principled but headstrong Phineas Finn faces murder charges, the ruthlessly ambitious Ferdinand Lopez wrecks havoc in Parliament and parlors and the next generation of Pallisers comes of age in a rapidly changing world. But the enduring marriage of Plantagenet Palliser (Phillip Latham) and Lady Glencora (Emmy Award-winner Susan Hampshire) - tested yet again by public and private crises - touchingly proves its mettle. Also starring Jeremy Irons (Damage), Anthony Andrews (Brideshead Revisited) and Kate Nichols (Nicholas Nickleby).
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