The Crème de La Crème of Period Dramas ? ? ?

A more recent one on Netflix…Bridgerton I thought was superb.

I used to love Sam used to be on weekly about a mining community. Anyone else remember it.

Not sure if it’s classed as a period drama but The Thornbirds is definitely worth binge watching.

The Mayor of Casterbridge….Ciaran Hynes is brilliant in it.

Also loved Cranford and Larkrise.
That’s it decided …. I’m going to watch them all again…..thank you
Everything that’s on normal telly is dreadful just now anyway..so many quiz shows and cooking shows it’s unbelievable.
Back to Cranford first I think !

I haven’t read the whole thread, but I loved Love for Lydia, Tess of the D’Urbervilles (Peter Firth as Angel Clare) and South Riding when I was young. I’m guessing they were on TV in the late 70s. Period drama could be any period really!

Another recent one: The Gilded Age. Having watched it, I watched both series of Bridgerton, but Gilded Age had the better ball gowns (in my opinion).

The newer Forsyte Saga is on ITV player I am pretty sure - and it's excellent. Better than the very old one, imo.

Tenko is great - it is 'period' but not maybe what you are thinking of......women's prisoner of war camp.

Tenko is also on Britbox.

Period drama is, to me, any production set in a particular historical period characterised by the use of costumes, sets, and props that evoke the era.

Recently, I’ve loved watching the first three series based on Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels beginning with My Brilliant Friend. The two central female characters were born in 1944 and the story begins when they are very young girls in school so in that early post WW2 period, families trying to get by in a region controlled by the Camorra. On Sky or the no contract Now app.

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I haven’t read the whole thread, but I loved Love for Lydia, Tess of the D’Urbervilles (Peter Firth as Angel Clare) and South Riding when I was young. I’m guessing they were on TV in the late 70s. Period drama could be any period really!

We were at a works Christmas do when the last episode of Love for Lydia was on and went home to watch it then returned to the meal. Loved it.

I absolutely adore the new version of All Creatures Great and Small, every bit as good as the first one for me. And this from a true Yorkshire lass!

Crawford was excellent. I also loved Lark Rise to Candleford. It was the Postman for me that made it.

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Crawford was excellent. I also loved Lark Rise to Candleford. It was the Postman for me that made it.

Mark Heap is so good and he never seems to age!

Outlander - amazing.

Watched series 1,2 &3 on Amazon Prime but have had to buy series 4 & 5. About 13 episodes in each series.

Must be excellent for me to have spent money on TV !!!

( It was my husband who put us onto Amazon Prime )

Most of those mentioned plus Branwell and the Catherine Cookson novels.

We recently subscribed to BritBox because we wanted to watch Murder in Provence. Scrolling through the listings I found Blue Murder starring Caroline Quentin and Ian Kelsey, well worth watching. We are presently watching Kavanagh QC starring the lovely John Thaw. I'm going to seek out Lark Rise to Candleford ver the weekend.

Wives and daughters, and enjoying everyone else’s recommendations some I’ve not seen and will add to my watchlist.

Random question........does anyone remember South Riding?

Peaky Blinders for great writing, fabulous cinematography and the best acting I've ever seen.

The older ones I’d watch again would be The Forsyte Saga, & Upstairs Downstairs (used to love watching that with my Grandma) In more recent years, Versailles, Poldark and The Village which were all good.
I remember a period drama called Sam being on in the 70’s with a young Mark McManus, me & my mum used to love that but I’ve never seen it on any re-runs, I would like to watch that again.

Just adding to the thread (confess I haven’t read it all yet) that Our Friends in the North is being serialised on radio 4 at 2.15 - immediately after The Archers.

Peaky Blinders.
All Creatures Great and Small.
Father Brown (for a quick fix)

Secret Army (now on Britbox). Love it!

War and Peace.

Clarissa by Samual Richardson. Series made in the early 90’s I think. Not sure that it ever really became popular but it has always remained my favourite.

Richardson first presents the heroine, Clarissa Harlowe, when she is discovering the barely masked motives of her family, who want to force her into a loveless marriage to improve its fortunes. When Lovelace, a romantic who holds the code of the Harlowes in contempt, offers her protection, she runs off with him. She is physically attracted by, if not actually in love with, Lovelace, but she is to discover that he wants her only on his own terms and she refuses to marry him. In Lovelace’s letters to his friend Belford, Richardson shows that what is driving [Lovelace] to conquest and finally to rape is really revenge for her family’s insults and his sense of Clarissa’s moral superiority. For Clarissa, however, accepting marriage as a convenience is no better than accepting the opportunistic moral code of her family. As the novel comes to its long-drawn-out close, she is removed from the world of both the Harlowes and the Lovelaces, and she dies true to herself to the end.

The original Poldark if you can get it.
The original Darling buds of May ( this is available to buy on dvd)
Victoria is also very good.