The Regiment (TV series)
Appearance
The Regiment | |
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Genre | Drama |
Created by | Jack Gerson Nick McCarty William Slater |
Starring | Christopher Cazenove |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
No. of series | 2 |
No. of episodes | 23 |
Production | |
Producers | Royston Morley Terence Dudley |
Production company | BBC |
Original release | |
Network | BBC One |
Release | 21 February 1972 – 4 May 1973 |
The Regiment was a British television drama series produced by the BBC.[1] First broadcast on BBC One in 1972 it starred Christopher Cazenove and followed the story of a British Army regiment from the view of two families.[1]
The Regiment was based on a single 1970 play that was part of the BBC Drama Playhouse series.[1] The series followed the Cotswold Regiment from 1895 to 1904 and in particular the Gaunt and Bright families.[1] The first series broadcast in 1972 related to the regiment's time with the Boer War, the second 1973 series followed the regiment in the British Raj in India.[1]
It once received a brief review in the Glasgow Weekly News "The Regiment: ought to be disbanded".
Cast List
Actor | Character |
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Christopher Cazenove | Lt/Capt Richard Gaunt |
Maria Aitken | Dorothy Saunders |
Wendy Allnutt | Charlotte Gaunt |
Virginia Balfour | Mrs Cranleigh-Osborne |
James Bate | Cpl Ernest Bright |
Michael Brennan | RSM William Bright |
Bernard Brown | Capt/Major Robert Saunders |
Shirley Dixon | Maud Slingsby |
Michael Elwyn | Lt Henry Percival |
John Hallam | Lt James Willoughby |
John Hallet | Private Hodge |
Roy Herrick | Lt/Capt Jeffrey Sissons |
Penelope Lee | Dr. Mary Mitcheson/Gaunt |
Denis Lill | Captain/Major Alfred Slingsby |
Frederick Treves | Col Cranleigh-Osborne |
Wendy Williams | Alice Gaunt |
Richard Wordsworth | Lt Col Gaunt-Seymour |
References
- Evans, Jeff (2001). The Penguin TV Companion. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-051467-8.