Rent The Glittering Prizes: The Complete Series (1976)
3.9 of 5 from 69 ratings
7h 45min
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- Synopsis:
Written by award-winning screen-writer and novelist Frederic Raphael, "The Glittering Prizes" is the critically acclaimed series of six teleplays chronicling the changing lives of friends who first meet at Cambridge University. Tom Conti (Shirley Valentine) stars as would-be novelist Adam Morris with Mark Wing-Davey and Nigel Havers among his college peers. Barbara Kellerman, Malcolm Stoddard, Connie Booth, Miriam Margolyes and Tim Pigott-Smith also feature among the cast. Meeting as undergraduates in the early fifties, the drama explores the hopes and dreams of a group of idealistic young students, following their intertwining lives into the turbulent sixties, and on through the successes and disillusionments of the seventies as they achieve contrasting levels of worldly success. - Actors:
- Tom Conti, Barbara Kellerman, Mark Wing-Davey, Malcolm Stoddard, John Gregg, Nigel Havers, Roger Hammond, Jeremy Child, Clive Merrison, Emily Richard, Leonard Sachs, Angela Down, Anna Carteret, Simon Cadell, Steve Plytas, Suzanne Stone
- Directors:
- Waris Hussein, Robert Knights
- Producers:
- Mark Shivas
- Writers:
- Frederic Raphael
- Studio:
- Simply Media
- Genres:
- British TV, TV Dramas
