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    Drama TV Shows - 1970s 4 Mins Read

    Edward The Seventh

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    13 x 60 minute episodes

    This £2 million, 13-part biopic from ATV was ITV’s major triumph for 1975. Arguably the first royal soap, the series looked closely at the life and loves of the Prince and also focused on the personality of the great Queen herself and other members of the royal family.

    With scenes filmed within Osborne House, Sandringham and St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle, by permission of the present Queen, the series was much applauded for its attention to detail, production techniques and the performances of the lead actors.

    Annette Crosbie won BAFTA’s best actress award for her portrayal of Queen Victoria from a young girl to the aged, disgruntled pudding in black, though her efforts during the death scene were not helped by the dog hired to play the Queen’s old darling!

    The white Pomeranian fell ill so the makeup department had to dye the fur of a substitute brown dog. It ended up with sticky unpleasant-looking tufts.

    Worse, every time Annette stretched out her hand to touch it and it was required to lie still and give a last baleful glance at its dying mistress, it playfully rolled on its back exposing its belly to the camera.

    In lesser roles, Charles Sturridge did well as the adolescent Prince of Wales, a difficult task, when he must have been aware that we were all the time waiting for him to turn into Timothy West, while Deborah Grant had some charming moments as the young Alix.

    André Morell’s Palmerston was, perhaps, too civil, and Felicity Kendal, though very alike in appearance, did not really convey the stern intellectualism of the Princess Royal.

    There were many incidental pleasures: seeing those little Land-seer dogs come to life, spotting the correct royal portraits on the walls, some of the groupings, which were a delight to the eye, and the camera-work, which was unobtrusively marvellous throughout.

    The series ended with around 16 million viewers as #1 in the ratings. Five of the 13 episodes had also hit the top spot.

    Based on a biography by Philip Magnus, it was written mainly by David Butler, formerly dishy Dr Nick Williams in Emergency – Ward 10. Butler went on to co-write Lillie for LWT in 1978, in which Francesca Annis reprised her Lillie Langtry role.

    Edward The Seventh was retitled Edward The King when it screened in the USA. Lew Grade had sold it to CBS in less than an hour – before Britain had seen it – and it was a hit stateside too.

    Edward (Adult)
    Timothy West
    Edward (Teenager)

    Charles Sturridge
    Queen Victoria

    Annette Crosbie
    Prince Albert

    Robert Hardy
    Princess Vicky
    Felicity Kendal
    Princess Alexandra
    Helen Ryan
    Charles Carrington
    Guy Slater
    Dowager Empress Dagmar
    Jane Lapotaire
    Prince George
    Michael Osborne
    W.E. Gladstone
    Michael Hordern
    Kaiser Wilhelm II
    Christopher Neame
    Francis Knollys
    Peter Howell
    Fritz
    Michael Byrne
    Princess May
    Judy Loe
    Affie
    Ian Gelder
    Princess Toria
    Madeleine Cannon
    Charlotte Knollys
    Barbara Laurenson
    Lord Palmerston
    André Morell
    Alice Keppel
    Moira Redmond
    Alice
    Shirley Steedman
    Helena
    Deborah Makepeace
    Princess Louise
    Vanessa Miles
    Princess Maud
    Rosalyn Elvin
    Duchess of Kent
    Alison Leggatt
    Lord Salisbury
    Richard Vernon
    Bertie
    Charles Sturridge
    Princess Christian
    Kathleen Byron
    Czarevitch Alexander
    Bruce Purchase
    A.J. Balfour
    Lyndon Brook
    Luis de Soveral
    Edward de Souza
    Prince Christian
    Anthony Douse
    Colonel Bruce
    Harry Andrews
    Oliver Montagu
    John Normington
    Lord Esher
    Basil Hoskins
    George I of Greece
    Paul Greenhalgh
    Frederick Ponsonby
    Denis Lill
    John Brown
    William Dysart
    Sir Ernest Cassel
    Robert Robinson
    Czar Nicholas II
    Michael Billington
    Benjamin Disraeli
    John Gielgud
    Alix – Princess Alexandra of Denmark
    Deborah Grant
    Baron Christian von Stockmar
    Noel Willman
    Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
    Geoffrey Bayldon
    Lillie Langtry
    Francesca Annis
    Daisy Lady Warwick
    Carolyn Seymour
    Lord Rosebery
    Edward Hardwicke
    Minny
    Gwyneth Strong
    Sir John Fisher
    James Berwick
    Lord Beresford
    Gareth Thomas
    Prince Eddy
    Charles Dance
    Frederick Crichton
    Nigel Havers

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