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    Drama TV Shows - 1970s 2 Mins Read

    Regiment, The

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    Debuting in February 1972, this BBC1 drama series featured British regimental life at the turn of the 20th century from the view of two families – the Gaunts and the Brights.

    The first series related the Cotswold Regiment’s time in South Africa, fighting in the Boer War – including the disastrous fight for Magersfontein Hill – while the second series followed the regiment on a posting to British India.

    The use of multiple different writers (over 15 of them) was noticeable with key characters changing personalities and importance to the plot: For example, the original series hero, Lieutenant Gaunt, was eventually upstaged in the writers’ affections by Captain Willoughby – whose stiff upper lip penetrated as far as his brain causing him to say things like “It was Cowardice but I called it Honour”.

    Lt/Captain Richard Gaunt
    Christopher Cazenove
    Captain/Major Alfred Slingsby
    Denis Lill
    Charlotte Gaunt
    Wendy Allnutt
    Captain/Major Rupert Saunders
    Bernard Brown
    Dorothy Saunders
    Maria Aitken
    RSM William Bright
    Michael Brennan
    Cpl. Ernest Bright
    James Bate
    Hon Alice Gaunt
    Wendy Williams
    Mrs Cranleigh-Osborne
    Virginia Balfour
    Col. Cranleigh-Osborne
    Frederick Treves
    Lt James Willoughby
    John Hallam
    Lt/Captain Jeffrey Sissons
    Roy Herrick
    Maud Slingsby
    Shirley Dixon
    Lt. Henry Percival
    Michael Elwyn
    Cecil Rhodes
    Leon Sinden
    Pvt. Hodge
    John Hallet
    Dr Mary Mitcheson/Gaunt
    Penelope Lee
    Lt Col Gaunt-Seymour
    Richard Wordsworth
    Oliver Gaunt
    Richard Cornish

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