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Moonfleet (1984 TV series)

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Moonfleet
GenreAdventure
Based onMoonfleet by J. Meade Falkner
Written byGeorge Day
Directed byColin Cant
StarringDavid Daker
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series1
No. of episodes6
Production
ProducerPaul Stone
Running time30 minutes
Production companyBBC
Original release
NetworkBBC One
Release22 February (1984-02-22) –
28 March 1984 (1984-03-28)

Moonfleet is a British period television drama series which aired on BBC One in 1984. It is based on the classic adventure novel Moonfleet by J. Meade Falkner, about smuggling on the Dorset coast in the eighteenth century, earlier made into a 1955 film of the same title directed by Fritz Lang.[1]

Main cast

References

  1. ^ Goble p.150

Bibliography

  • Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.