Churchill's People

*Churchill's People*
Churchill's People
Genre	Historical Drama
Country of origin	United Kingdom
No. of episodes	26
Production
Producer	Gerald Savory
Running time	50 min
Release
Original network	BBC1
Original release	30 December 1974 –; 23 June 1975

Churchill's People is a series of 26 historical dramas produced by the BBC, based on Winston Churchill's A History of the English-Speaking Peoples. They were first broadcast on BBC1 in 1974 and 1975. It was produced to mark the centenary of Churchill's birth.

The series was considered misconceived for multiple reasons, such as the studio-bound production which offered little in the way of realism and the lack of available funding. Each episode dealt with a particular period in British history, and the quality was consequently variable. Much of the acting was criticised, despite the involvement of Richard Johnson, Robert Hardy, Alan Howard, Colin Blakely, Anna Massey, Gemma Jones, and Edward Fox, amongst others. The series was reviewed at some length in the programme TV Hell, which revealed that viewing figures had plummeted from 2 million at the series' launch to less than half a million by the fifth episode. The programme was swiftly buried in a later time-slot for the remainder of its run.

Nancy Banks-Smith in The Guardian described it as having "little to offer us but blood, horsehair and history. Though a hell of a lot of each."^[1]

References[]

^ Banks-Smith, Nancy (7 January 1975). "Churchill's People". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 February 2010.

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[1] Banks-Smith, Nancy (7 January 1975). "Churchill's People". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 February 2010.

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