The Feathered Serpent (TV series)
Appearance
The Feathered Serpent | |
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Genre | Historical/Drama |
Created by | John Kane |
Directed by | Vic Hughes Michael Custance Stan Woodward |
Starring | Patrick Troughton Diane Keen Brian Deacon |
Composer | David Fanshawe |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of series | 2 |
No. of episodes | 12 |
Production | |
Running time | 30 minutes |
Original release | |
Network | ITV |
Release | 21 June 1976 8 May 1978 | –
The Feathered Serpent is a British children's television series made for ITV by Thames Television. Set in pre-Columbian Mexico and starring Patrick Troughton as the scheming High Priest Nasca. Two series were transmitted in 1976 and 1978.
Cast
- Nasca: Patrick Troughton
- Chimalma: Diane Keen
- Heumac: Brian Deacon
- Kukulkan: Tony Steedman
- Tozo: Richard Willis
- Mahoutec: Robert Gary
- Chadac: George Lane Cooper
- Maxtla: Alfred Hoffman
- Otolmi: George Cormack
- Xipec: Granville Saxton
- Keelag: Sheila Burrell
- Mataque: Robert Russell
Crew
- Written by John Kane
- Designed by Patrick Downing
- Music composed by David Fanshawe
- Produced and Directed by Vic Hughes
DVD release
A DVD containing both series of The Feathered Serpent was released in the UK in February 2009.
External links
- The Feathered Serpent at IMDb
- The Feathered Serpent at the BFI's Screenonline
Categories:
- 1970s British children's television series
- Television series set in the Pre-Columbian era
- ITV children's television shows
- 1976 British television series debuts
- 1978 British television series endings
- Television series by Fremantle (company)
- Television shows produced by Thames Television
- English-language television shows
- Aztecs in fiction
- British children's television show stubs