I first saw this on the original broadcast dates back in the Eighties. It's a fantastic series, showing Many well known (and not so known at the time) British actors outside of their usual Genre.
Martin Shaw as Scott Slyvester McCoy as Bowers. Bill Nighy as Meares Hugh Grant as Cherry-Garrard
THe whole series is view-able on you tube in something like 10 minute clips.
Unfortunately the howling over the reputation of Scott as portrayed in the Book this drama is based upon seems to have overshadowed the conversion of the book to the screen. The author's work is heavily biased against Scott as to how wrongly or rightly depends on how much spin from each side a reader is prepared to accept. I would recommend enjoying the screen adaption of the book as exactly that and if you care to look deeper into the historical story, read more than the book this is based on.
Martin Shaw as Scott Slyvester McCoy as Bowers. Bill Nighy as Meares Hugh Grant as Cherry-Garrard
THe whole series is view-able on you tube in something like 10 minute clips.
Unfortunately the howling over the reputation of Scott as portrayed in the Book this drama is based upon seems to have overshadowed the conversion of the book to the screen. The author's work is heavily biased against Scott as to how wrongly or rightly depends on how much spin from each side a reader is prepared to accept. I would recommend enjoying the screen adaption of the book as exactly that and if you care to look deeper into the historical story, read more than the book this is based on.