Persuasion | |
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Written by |
Jane Austen (novel) |
Directed by | Campbell Logan |
Starring | Paul Daneman |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of episodes | 4 |
Production | |
Producer(s) | Campbell Logan |
Running time | 60min episodes (approx.) |
Release | |
Original network | British Broadcasting Corporation |
Original release | 30 December 1960 | – 20 January 1961
Jane Austen (novel)
Barbara Burnham (screenplay)
Persuasion is a 1960 British television mini-series adaptation of the Jane Austen novel of the same name. It was produced by the BBC and was directed by Campbell Logan. Daphne Slater stars as Anne Elliot, and Paul Daneman as Captain Frederick Wentworth. The mini-series has four episodes, each about an hour in length.
According to shmoop.com, this mini-series was possibly destroyed in the BBC clean-out of the 1970s.