Prince Regent (TV series)

Prince Regent
Genre	Period drama
Written by	Ian Curteis
Directed by	Michael Simpson Michael Hayes
Starring	Peter Egan Nigel Davenport Keith Barron
Theme music composer	Carl Davis
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of episodes	8
Production
Producer	Colin Tucker
Running time	50 minutes
Production company	BBC
Release
Original network	BBC1
Original release	4 September (1979-09-04) – 30 October 1979 (1979-10-30)

Prince Regent is a British period television series made and transmitted by the BBC in 1979. It depicts the life of George IV from his youth time as Prince Regent and his reign as King. It consists of eight episodes of 50 minutes.^[1]

Cast[]

• Peter Egan as George, Prince of Wales
• Nigel Davenport as King George III
• Keith Barron as Charles James Fox
• Frances White as Queen Charlotte
• Susannah York as Maria Fitzherbert
• Dinah Stabb as Princess Caroline
• Bosco Hogan as Frederick, Duke of York and Albany
• David Horovitch as Lt. Col. Lake
• Clive Merrison as Richard Brinsley Sheridan
• Katy Durham-Matthews as Princess Mary
• Chrissy Iddon as Mary Robinson
• Robert Hartley as Lord Jersey
• Pat Nye as Frau Schwellenberg

Awards[]

The series won the make-up award (Toni Chapman) at the 1979 BAFTA television awards, and was nominated in the design (Barry Newbury, Barrie Dobbins), costume design (Raymond Hughes) and television cameraman (Rodney Taylor) categories.^[2]

DVD release[]

Prince Regent is available on DVD in the UK through Simply Media.

References[]

External links[]

• Prince Regent at IMDb

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