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unusual facts about television miniseries



Matthew Goodgame

Matthew Goodgame is currently starring in The Thorn Birds (A New Musical), playing the lead role of Father Ralph de Bricassart, which Richard Chamberlain played in the iconic television miniseries.

Merlin's Apprentice

It is a sequel to the hit 1998 television miniseries Merlin with Sam Neill and Miranda Richardson reprising their roles as Merlin and the Lady of the Lake, albeit slightly different versions of their characters.

Reversible Errors

In 2004, a television miniseries based on the novel and bearing the same title was released starring William H. Macy, Tom Selleck and Felicity Huffman.

Stanley Levison

Levison's role as advisor and friend to King was portrayed by actor Steven Hill in King, a 1978 television miniseries.

Vanessa Stacey

In 2005, Stacy had a guest appearance in the Hercules television miniseries and, the next year, appeared in a supporting role in Robert Sarkies's drama Out of the Blue.


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A Woman Named Jackie

A Woman Named Jackie is a 1991 American made for television miniseries chronicling the life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

Barry Quin

In 1980, he would star in the television miniseries Lucinda Brayford co-starring Wendy Hughes and Sam Neill and, the following year, in Sara Dane.

Although having minor roles in I Can't Get Started and Departure, he had moderate success as Lt. Zachariah Hicks in the 1987 television miniseries Captain James Cook followed by Emma: Queen of the South Seas (1987) and Cappuccino (1989) in which he was also credited as an associate producer.

Char Fontane

One of her most memorable performances was as a prostitute in the 1978 ABC television miniseries, Pearl.

Claudio Gioè

Gioè, however is best known to Italian viewers for his portrayal of Mafia boss Salvatore Riina in the 2007 television miniseries "Capo dei Capi" ("Boss of Bosses").

Clouds of Witness

The novel was adapted as a television miniseries in 1972, starring Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter and Glyn Houston as Bunter.

Commonwealth Club

Commonwealth Jazz Club, a 1965 music television miniseries co-produced in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom

Country Sunshine

Country Sunshine With Myrna Lorrie, a Canadian country music television miniseries

Daniel Lapaine

He also starred in the 2000 television miniseries The 10th Kingdom as Prince Wendell White, ruler of the 4th Kingdom, and played Tim Allerton in the 2004 Agatha Christie's Poirot episode Death on the Nile.

Dinosaur Planet

Planet Dinosaur, a six-part documentary television miniseries produced by the BBC

Elfego Baca

In 1958, Walt Disney Studios released a television miniseries entitled The Nine Lives of Elfego Baca and starring Robert Loggia in the title role.

Erebus: The Aftermath

Erebus: The Aftermath was a 1988 New Zealand television miniseries about Air New Zealand Flight 901, which crashed in Antarctica in 1979.

Frank Crowe

The Hoover Dam construction project and Frank Crowe's role (portrayed by actor Jay Benedict) was dramatised in an episode of the BBC's 2003 docudrama television miniseries Seven Wonders of the Industrial World.

Guy Richer

Aside from a few other roles, he is notable for his portrayal of Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien in the 2002 television miniseries Trudeau.

Hollywood novel

A couple years after the novel’s release, it was turned into a made for television miniseries by Aaron Spelling, and was a huge hit for the ABC network.

In between

In Between (TV miniseries), an Australian television miniseries which aired on SBS in 1986.

Jardine House

Jardine House was prominently displayed in the 1988 NBC television miniseries Noble House as the headquarters for Struan’s.

Line Arlien-Søborg

In 1986 Arlien-Søborg performed in the Danish television miniseries Kaj Munk and she once again performed for Malmros in his 1989 film Århus by Night.

Lisa Pelikan

Other high points in her career include her performances as the lusty Lucy Scanlon in the Television miniseries Studs Lonigan (1979), and the title character of the horror film Jennifer (1978).

Lives of the Saints

In 2004, in the novel was adapted into a television miniseries, entitled Lives of the Saints, in an Italian-Canadian co-production starring Sophia Loren, Fabrizio Filippo, Jessica Paré, Sabrina Ferilli, Kris Kristofferson and Nick Mancuso.

Melville Shavelson

He also wrote,produced and co-directed the six-hour ABC screenplay to the 1979 television miniseries Ike about Dwight D. Eisenhower, based on the World War II exploits of Gen. Dwight Eisenhower.

Michael Korda

Among Korda's better-known books are Charmed Lives, which was a memoir about his life with his father and uncle, and the novel Queenie, which is a roman à clef about his aunt, actress Merle Oberon, which was later adapted into a television miniseries.

Morgan Paull

He is also known for playing the scheming Philip Wendell in the 1978 American television miniseries Centennial and a greedy businessman in the 1984 comedy Surf II.

Palmyra Atoll

The book led to a CBS television miniseries by the same name starring James Brolin, Rachel Ward and Hart Bochner.

Robin Bruce Lockhart

The son of the British spy R. H. Bruce Lockhart, he wrote the 1967 book Ace of Spies about the super-spy Sidney Reilly, which was made into a 1983 television miniseries Reilly: Ace of Spies, starring Sam Neill as the title character and Ian Charleson as his father.

Ronald Speirs

Speirs was portrayed in the television miniseries Band of Brothers by Matthew Settle.

Shattered City: The Halifax Explosion and the Road to Recovery

A CBC television miniseries in 2004 Shattered City: The Halifax Explosion took the same title of the book, but the miniseries had no connection to the book or its author.

Terri Seymour

In 2000, she appeared in NBC's television miniseries In the Beginning featuring concealed frontal nudity for her role of Eve, and in 2002 played a small role in the British film 24 Hour Party People.

The Boy in the Bush

The Boy in the Bush was made into a television miniseries in 1984, directed by Rob Stewart and starring Kenneth Branagh and Sigrid Thornton.

The Last Templar

NBC made a two-part television miniseries starring Mira Sorvino, Scott Foley, Victor Garber, and Omar Sharif.

The Light Bearer

In 2001, The Light Bearer was optioned by Hallmark Entertainment for a four-hour television miniseries that was not produced.

The Lost Empire

:*Lost Empires, a 1986 television miniseries adapted from the Priestley novel

The Moneychangers

A television miniseries bearing the same name and based on the novel was broadcast in 1976 with

The Story of Us

America: The Story of Us, 2010 American documentary-drama television miniseries

The Witches and the Grinnygog

The story was adapted as a six-episode television miniseries produced by Television South in the UK in 1983 and subsequently broadcast in the US, Canada New Zealand and Israel.

William Takaku

He co-wrote, with Albert Toro, and directed the television miniseries Warriors in Transit (1992).

As an actor, he co-starred as Man Friday alongside Pierce Brosnan in the film Robinson Crusoe (1997) and he appeared as Magnus in the television miniseries The Violent Earth (1998).

Winter in Wartime

In 1973 the novel won the Gouden Griffel and in 1975 it was made into a popular television miniseries directed by Aart Staartjes.