Churchill's People (1974)
Churchill's People (1974)
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Cast & Crew.

Brian Rawlinson
Creator / Script Editor

Alfred Lynch
King James I

Gerald Savory
Creator / Producer

Malcolm Williamson
Music

Bernard Hepton
Oliver Cromwell

Winston Churchill
Book

Geoffrey Matthews
Ealdred, Archbishop of York

Mark Donaldson
William I

Geoffrey Beevers
Philip

Jeremy Kemp
Lucius

Brian Cox
William Wallace

Tom Conti
Tom Mackenzie

Bernadette Windsor
Matilda
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This TV Show Is About.
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Churchill's People is a series of 26 historical dramas produced by the BBC, based on Winston Churchill's A History of the English-Speaking Peoples. They were first broadcast on BBC1 in 1974 and 1975. It was produced to mark the centenary of Churchill's birth.
The series was considered misconceived for multiple reasons, such as the studio-bound production which offered little in the way of realism and the lack of available funding. Each episode dealt with a particular period in British history, and the quality was consequently variable. Much of the acting was criticised, despite the involvement of Richard Johnson, Robert Hardy, Alan Howard, Colin Blakely, Anna Massey, Gemma Jones, and Edward Fox, amongst others. The series was reviewed at some length in the programme TV Hell, which revealed that viewing figures had plummeted from 2 million at the series' launch to less than half a million by the fifth episode. The programme was swiftly buried in a later time-slot for the remainder of its run.
Nancy Banks-Smith in The Guardian described it as having "little to offer us but blood, horsehair and history. Though a hell of a lot of each."