Vanity Fair (1967 TV serial)

Vanity Fair
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Based onVanity Fair
by William Makepeace Thackeray
Screenplay byRex Tucker
Directed byDavid Giles
StarringSusan Hampshire
Music byDouglas Gamley (unknown episodes)
Original languageEnglish
Production
ProducerDavid Conroy
Running time5x1 hour
Original release
NetworkBBC
Release2 December (1967-12-02) –
30 December 1967 (1967-12-30)
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Vanity Fair is a BBC television drama serial adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's 1848 novel of the same name broadcast in 1967.[1] It was the first drama serial in colour produced by the BBC.[2] Vanity Fair starred Susan Hampshire as Becky Sharp.[3] The serial was also broadcast in 1972 in the US on PBS television as part of Masterpiece Theatre, and Hampshire received an Emmy Award for her portrayal in 1973.[4]

This was the second of four television adaptations of Vanity Fair produced by the BBC; other serials had been transmitted in 1956/57, in 1987, and in 1998.[5]

  1. ^ "Vanity Fair: Part 1: The Famous Little Becky Puppet". 2 December 1967. p. 9 – via BBC Genome.
  2. ^ "BFI Screenonline: TV Literary Adaptation". www.screenonline.org.uk.
  3. ^ "Vanity Fair Part 4 The Wicked Nobleman (1967)". BFI. Archived from the original on 24 October 2020.
  4. ^ "Susan Hampshire". Television Academy.
  5. ^ "William Makepeace Thackeray". BFI. Archived from the original on 9 August 2016.