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Period drama on DVD - recommendations please

AmfootAmfoot
edited May 2009 in Chit chat
I would be very appreciative of any thoughts you may have on good period costume drama available on DVD that are in the vein of 'The Dutchess of Duke Street', 'Upstairs Downstairs' or 'The Pallisers' - e.g. multi-part series that make for a good long viewing!

My wife is very keen on this sort of programme and I'm looking for other likely candidates beyond those listed above to buy for her birthday - any suggestions? They don't have to be based in the UK necessarily, but in the period 1850-1930 seem to be most popular.
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  • milemile
    edited May 2009
    poirot
    brideshead revisited
    sherlock holmes ( i think the ITV series)
    sharpe
    hornblower
    roots
  • Matt_BMatt_B
    edited May 2009
    Cranford
    Lark Rise To Candleford

    Well, they're what my wife likes in that vein anyway.
  • AmfootAmfoot
    edited May 2009
    Oh yes, I'd forgotten we'd waded through Cranford! Is Larkrise... out on DVD already then, I thought that was still on the telly?
  • ZagrebZagreb
    edited May 2009
    Poldark.
  • Matt_BMatt_B
    edited May 2009
    Amfoot wrote: »
    Oh yes, I'd forgotten we'd waded through Cranford! Is Larkrise... out on DVD already then, I thought that was still on the telly?

    Yep, there are a couple of DVDs of Lark Rise out; the one for the second series came out a couple of weeks back. There'll be a third series broadcast next year.
  • murtcepsmurtceps
    edited May 2009
    House of Elliot.
    Brothers
  • AmfootAmfoot
    edited May 2009
    these are all great suggestions, thanks - please keep them coming :smile:
  • Ian HamiltonIan Hamilton
    edited May 2009
    Rebecca?
  • milemile
    edited May 2009
    tipping the velvet
  • Ian HamiltonIan Hamilton
    edited May 2009
    Barry Lyndon
  • AmfootAmfoot
    edited May 2009
    Brilliant - thanks all.

    Have found and bought the complete House of Elliot series online, as this looks perfect for requirments - big thumbs up for Murtceps :p
  • Ian HamiltonIan Hamilton
    edited May 2009
    Amfoot wrote: »
    Brilliant - thanks all.

    Have found and bought the complete House of Elliot series online, as this looks perfect for requirments - big thumbs up for Murtceps :p
    Is that the series about the clothes designers? I remember seeing that on UK Gold a few years ago before Doctor Who would come on.
  • Dave_CDave_C
    edited May 2009
    A Woman of Substance

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085114/

    I remember my Mum enjoyed that one.
  • AmfootAmfoot
    edited May 2009
    Necros wrote: »
    Is that the series about the clothes designers? I remember seeing that on UK Gold a few years ago before Doctor Who would come on.

    Yes, so the blurb has it. I'm sure I'll love it too :lol:
  • The StargliderThe Starglider
    edited May 2009
    Going right back, there's always "I, Claudius", that's a period of history I suppose - and makes fab viewing!
  • Bermondsey BobBermondsey Bob
    edited May 2009
    The Starglider wrote: »
    Going right back, there's always "I, Claudius", that's a period of history I suppose - and makes fab viewing!

    I was just about to post that. My mum watches this from start to finish several times a year. She says it's the best series ever made!
  • MrCheeseMrCheese
    edited May 2009
    The Tudors
  • The StargliderThe Starglider
    edited May 2009
    how about something a bit more modern? Day Of The Triffids? Love that series.
  • jamieangusjamieangus
    edited May 2009
    Pride and Prejudice (the 1995 BBC adaptation)
  • torottorot
    edited May 2009
    brideshead revisited (tv series) is stunning. a must.
    the numerous catherine cookson adaptations are good too
  • ewgfewgf
    edited May 2009
    The Starglider wrote: »
    Going right back, there's always "I, Claudius", that's a period of history I suppose - and makes fab viewing!

    Seconded. Absolute classic.

    Also would Jeeves and Wooster (Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry) suit your requirements? You can buy the box set of all the episodes, and they're great. Not actually history, of course, but fictional characters set in a (slightly surreal version of a) real time. The time when younger siblings of nobility got nothing from their parents (the eldest male inherited everything, by law) except for money in the bank to live on, and the men employed a gentleman's gentleman (a valet).
  • murtcepsmurtceps
    edited May 2009
    MrCheese wrote: »
    The Tudors

    I initially liked the Tudors, but I got a bit annoyed and lost interest when they enlightened and changed things that really happened to make better interest.

    One example Cardinal Wolsey. I remember watching it and said to my wife "he dies in Leicester", At which on TV he promptly pull out a knife and kills himslf. Suicide is not mentioned in any History book I know.
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