Period Dramas

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Can anyone please recommend some Sunday period dramas? Last week I watched Pride and Prejudice the 90s version and The Calomine Lawn I really enjoyed them both.

Sanditon if you want to see period drama how it really, really shouldn’t be done. Good for a giggle though because it’s just that bad….

Fantastic suggestions 😊 will work my way through them over the winter. I have seen Bridgerton and upstairs downstairs and Brideshead. I loved them all. I've seen more period drama than I thought. So sorry for the typo the chicken pox version 😂

Lost in Austen with its fabulous cast is an interesting twist on Pride and Prejudice.

@CrossPurposes

Lost in Austen with its fabulous cast is an interesting twist on Pride and Prejudice.

Oh yes I love this with its alternative stories. That bit where Mr Darcy follows Amanda and pops up… in a different place. I love it when he is just looking around…

*trying to to give a spoiler!

I love North and South.
Only recently watched Sense and Sensibility and really enjoyed it. Alan Rickman stole the show for me.

@GoodnightGrandma

I love North and South. Only recently watched Sense and Sensibility and really enjoyed it. Alan Rickman stole the show for me.

Alan Rickman always steals the show, no matter what he is in. It's so sad to think that he's gone.

Lady Chatterley’s Lover - but that might be a bit old fashioned.

I know ! He is so funny in Robin Hood. He really was a great actor 😭

Bleak House (2005) and Little Dorrit (2008), both fantastic adaptions of Dickens' classics. The TV adaptions of Catherine Cookson's novels are also enjoyable if you like her tales. And the Australian series A Place to Call Home, it's set in the 1950s so technically a period drama although a more modern one. You can see them all on UKTV Play if you have it.

The other North and South mini series with Patrick Swayze about the American civil war

Was browsing iplayer for period drama the other day, and saw the BBC have allowed Middlemarch for the next two months. OP, it's so good and really worth watching if you haven't before, made at the same time as P&P, when the BBC were doing really good adaptations.

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p00tckx3/middlemarch

Excellent, thanks for the info @ChevreChase

@LadyHalesBroach

Sanditon if you want to see period drama how it really, really shouldn’t be done. Good for a giggle though because it’s just that bad….

It was awful. So naturally they've made a second series.

Lark rise to candleford and Cranford.

[quote ChevreChase]Was browsing iplayer for period drama the other day, and saw the BBC have allowed Middlemarch for the next two months. OP, it's so good and really worth watching if you haven't before, made at the same time as P&P, when the BBC were doing really good adaptations.

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p00tckx3/middlemarch[/quote]
Thanks will have a look at this just now 😊

So far we have watched Wolf Hall which was really enjoyable. Then we watched the Tudors which was absolutely fantastic.

Flambards

Moll Flanders

Dickensian

... and a festive treat, The Man Who Invented Christmas

Tipping the Velvet
The Cazalets
Vanity Fair with Natasha Little

OMG thanks @ChevreChase, I'd completely forgotten about Middlemarch! A young Rufus Sewell!!

I've never seen Middlemarch (although remember it being on TV at the time). Will give it a watch!

The white Queen
The white Princess
The Spanish princess
The Tudors
Victoria
Borgias

Bleak House

Oh, Rufus Sewell. Watch Cold Comfort Farm to see him in his glorious prime as he broods magnificently by the well. Or by a horse trough? Can't remember, but stripped to the waist and having a wash. Cold Comfort Farm is an absolute joy. Late 1920s-early 1930s. It's very funny with a great cast.