Period drama recommendations please!

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Any suggestions for good period dramas? I'm just getting into the genre, recent watches I have loved are Downton Abbey, Home Fires and have nearly finished Cranford.

I have Lark Rise to Candleford on dvd, just wondering if it is a better spring/summer type watch?

I have Netflix, Now TV, Prime and usual UK terrestrial channels apps.

The Forsyte Saga (2002/3 - not the recent version) is on Netflix and is excellent.

My absolute favourite is North And South staring a young Richard Armitage. It’s brilliant and I watch it at least twice a year.

It was a BBC production but I think it is currently available on U.

North and South

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The BBC has made loads and loads. We enjoyed all of these:

1995 Pride and Prejudice, Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth
Persuasion (later 1990s) - Amanda Root and Ciaran Hinds
Our Mutual Friend - Keeley Hawes, Steven Mackintosh etc - cracking cast
Martin Chuzzlewit - Paul Schofield, Tom Wilkinson
The Barchester Chronicles, 1982 - another fabulous cast (well, they all do). Alan Rickman absolutely magnificent in one of his first big roles.

There's also a really excellent feature film version of Little Dorrit, split into two parts. 1987, stars Derek Jacobi and Alec Guinness.

I enjoyed The Paradise (on U)

Sanditon was lovely but it’s hard to find

Bridgeton

Outlander!

Poldark
Mr Selfridge
Marie Antoinette
The Serpent Queen
3 little birds
The Gilded Age

Middlemarch - the version with Robert Hardy, Rufus Sewell. Daniel Deronda. Wuthering Heights with Kay Adshead ( the best adaptation I've seen - covers the whole book, not just the first half). All BBC serials and were on iPlayer recently

All4 has the serpent queen, white queen, white princess and the spanish princess - I'm partway through the serpent queen but haven't seen the others. It might still have The Tudors too.
Bridgerton (netflix)
Harlots (netflix, I think?)
The Great (all4 I think)

Upstairs Downstairs and Persuasion (The Ciaran Hinds one)
Ive been rewatching Flambards on YouTube which is quite good.

Love this thread!

A few more have come to mind. The Count of Monte Cristo, the one starring Gerard Depardieu. The Story of Adele H which is about the daughter of Victor Hugo starring Isabelle Adjani and is very atmospheric.

Poldark

Bleak House with Anna Maxwell Martin

Miss Austen
Outrageous

Both on iplayer

War & Peace
Dickension
Oliver Twist
Les Miserables

All have been on iplayer

North and South!! Absolute classic with Richard Armitage looking glorious.

The Hardacres.
Gentleman Jack.
Mr Selfridge.

I've really enjoyed The Hardacres on channel 5 and The Gilded Age on sky. I'm hoping both will do another series this year.

The original Upstairs Downstairs with Gordon Jackson and Jean Marsh
To Serve Them All My Days - a boys' school between the wars.
Goodbye Mr Chips with Martin Clunes - another boys' school story.

Dark Winds, set in 1970's on a Navajo reservation.
Ripper Street Victorian crime drama