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Actors: Eric Porter, Margaret Tyzack, Nyree Dawn Porter, June Barry, Kenneth More
Directors: James Cellan Jones
Writers: Lennox Phillips
Format: Black & White, PAL
Language English
Subtitles: English
Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
Number of discs: 7
Classification: 12
Studio: 2 Entertain Video
DVD Release Date: 23 Aug 2004
Run Time: 999 minutes

Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (18 customer reviews)

ASIN: B0002CH7NO
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 780 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)
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The Forsyte Saga is often cited as the first television miniseries; it wasn't, but there's no question that it was a singular, powerful cultural phenomenon that deservedly got under the skin of European viewers in 1967. Today the 26-episode production, based on several novels and short stories by John Galsworthy, is a more timeless enterprise than many of the protracted British TV dramas that have followed. While it would be wrong to consider The Forsyte Saga high art, it's certainly a mesmerizing and inspired mix of theater, sprawling Victorian narrative, thinking man's soap opera, and some finely tuned, 1960s black-and-white production values that (especially when shot outdoors) are strikingly handsome.

Above all, Forsyte is driven by its characters--perhaps to an extreme, though the two-generation storyline makes no apologies for creating compelling people whose capacity for short-sighted blundering, bursts of grace, and slow-brewing redemption make them recognizably human. Eric Porter towers over everything as Soames Forsyte, a humorless attorney whose guiding principles of measurable value cause great heartache but slowly evolve, leaving him a graying, good father, arts patron, and sympathetic repository of memory. From the cast of 150 or so, other standouts include Susan Hampshire as Soames's troubled daughter, Nyree Dawn Porter as the wife of two very different Forsyte men, and Kenneth More as the family's artistic black sheep. --Tom Keogh

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The Forsyte Saga, in telling the remarkable story of a nouveau riche English family, introduced the world to a new kind of TV. Millions of people devoted the next half year of their lives to following the frank treatment of all the sins, foibles and peccadillos of the Forsytes and their circle. The passing decades can never the erase the memory of their extraordinary evenings with the Forsytes: Kenneth More as Jo, the philosophical outsider; Eric Porter as Soames, the grasping man of property; Nyree Dawn Porter as Irene, "born to be loved and to love" and in later episodes, Susan Hampshire in an Emmy-winning performance as Fleur, Soame's 'restless' daughter. With 150 characters, 2000 separate costumes and over 100 sets, this sprawling yet intimate saga continues to move, provoke and entrance viewers today.

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5.0 out of 5 stars This series has a timeless quality. First rate production., 3 May 2000

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This review is from: The Forsyte Saga - Vol. 1 [VHS] [1967] (VHS Tape)

I saw this many years ago on television and it is as facinating now as it was then. I even forgot that I was watching it in black and white!

If you are a reader of good books you will know that screen versions are usually disappointing. Of course, there is not all the detail but having read the books the timing and content of this presentation is accurate enough to draw you through the epic saga without the usual irritations of "screen licence". It is one of the very few book-to-screen productions I would highly recommend - the others are also BBC Drama Productions.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A TV Serial that is High Art, 15 Nov 2005

By	John Austin "austinjr@bigpond.net.au" (Kangaroo Ground, Australia) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

Now available on 7 DVDs, comprising all 26 episodes plus several hours of additional features, this most celebrated and splendid of BBC TV serials was the brainchild of adapter and producer Donald Wilson. Its world-wide success is known to all, but some might not be aware of the following: -

Donald Wilson was denied funds to produce it for ten years. Had there been a delay of a further year the series would have been filmed in colour, as he wished, rather than black and white.

The first of the John Galsworthy novels on which the series is based contains almost no dialogue. BBC script writers supplied the dialogue that helped make the ten siblings in the eldest Forsyte generation so memorable.

Galsworthy intended the Forsytes to represent the rapaciousness, greed and snobbery of the English upper middle class. In this adaptation they are much more endearing.

Being filmed in black and white made it possible to interpolate archival film of Queen Victoria’s funeral procession and of combat scenes from WW1.

Joseph O’Conor who plays the part of Old Jolyon was two years younger than Kenneth More who plays his son.

Eric Porter and Margaret Tyzack, who play Soames Forsyte and his sister Winifred, are in each episode and are required to age almost 50 years.

Although never credited, the music that opens and closes each episode is the first movement, “Halcyon Days”, from the suite “The Three Elizabeths” written in the early 1940s by Eric Coates.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful dramatisation of this saga of Victorian life., 18 Mar 2002

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This review is from: The Forsyte Saga - Vol. 1 [VHS] [1967] (VHS Tape)

I have been given volumes 1 and 2 of this saga. Having seen the original episodes when first shown on television, I was prepared to be disappointed (memory can view things through rose-coloured spectacles). Not so! I have been enthralled by these episodes, not being able to wait to see the next one on the video. The acting is superb - Kenneth More, Nyree Dawn Porter, Eric Portman, to mention a few. The fact that the series is in black and white does not detract from it at all. I can't wait to purchase the next volumes, which I will do as soon as I can afford them. I thoroughly recommend this to any one who has an interest in life as it was in the rarefied atmosphere of those days of the affluent middle class, and what goes on behind the facade.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Brilliant British Product
This first televised version of the Forsyte Saga is a masterpiece. The writing, casting and acting are flawless. Read more

Published 1 month ago by Neil Brough

4.0 out of 5 stars Such an excellent series
I had forgotten what an excellent and gripping series this was. Even though in black and white (and the quality of the DVDs is a bit iffy at times) it does not detract from the... Read more

Published 2 months ago by La Espanola

5.0 out of 5 stars Forsyte Saga
Half the price of the US edition, couldn't pass it up. Watched the whole set in 5 days. It's black and white, but who cares, the print was very good, as was the sound.

Published 2 months ago by Gary C. Williams

5.0 out of 5 stars Still brilliant!
Have thought about buying this set for ages! The reduction in the price finally persuaded me. I'm so glad I bought it as it is still a wonderful series. Read more

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4.0 out of 5 stars 4 sagasighth
Good but sorry subtitles in Dutch double dutch to me wife deaf and subtitles a great help otherwise good

Published 3 months ago by Mr. K. Griffiths

5.0 out of 5 stars The Fortsyte Saga
ASIN The DVD's are very good indeed and bring back memories of just how much impact they had on English life when they were first shown on TV on Sunday evenings... Read more

Published 3 months ago by Mr. David J. Rees

5.0 out of 5 stars Compulsive viewing!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful Classic
A wonderful classic serial that has stood the test of time and with such a distinguished cast. A must for anyone who loves classic drama.

Published 5 months ago by Willshake

5.0 out of 5 stars BY ALL MEANS GO FOR IT
I was sent to bed when the serie was shown in France in 1967, 10 years old at the time, but I amazingly remembered Kenneth More, Eric Porter and Nyree Dawn Porter faces. Read more

Published 9 months ago by B. Bruno

4.0 out of 5 stars Why hadn't they the foresight to make it in colour?
I can vividly remember the panic of Sunday evenings - bath, hairwash, school uniform laid out by 7.15pm or suffer the wrath of Mum. Read more

Published 23 months ago by Morton Macleod

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