Tales of the City (1993 miniseries)

Tales of the City
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Also known as	Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City
Genre	Drama
Based on	Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
Screenplay by	Richard Kramer
Directed by	Alastair Reid
Starring	Olympia Dukakis Donald Moffat Chloe Webb Laura Linney William Campbell Paul Gross Marcus D'Amico Thomas Gibson Barbara Garrick Nina Foch Stanley DeSantis
Theme music composer	John Keane
Country of origin	United Kingdom United States
Original language	English
No. of episodes	6
Production
Producers	Antony Root Alan Poul
Cinematography	Walt Lloyd
Editor	David Gamble
Running time	360 min.
Production companies	Working Title Films Propaganda Films
Original release
Network	Channel 4
Release	28 September (1993-09-28) – 2 November 1993 (1993-11-02)
Related
Tales of the City (2019 miniseries)
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Tales of the City (formally Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City) is a 1993 television miniseries based on the first of the Tales of the City series of novels by Armistead Maupin.

To date, the first three books have been adapted into television miniseries; the first, Tales of the City, was produced by the UK's Channel 4 and was first screened in the UK in 1993, then shown on PBS in the US in January 1994. Channel 4 eventually teamed up with the American cable network Showtime to produce the sequel, More Tales of the City, which premiered in the US and UK in 1998. The third installment of the series, Further Tales of the City, was produced by Showtime (without Channel 4) and was originally aired in the US on Showtime in May 2001.

A fourth installment, Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City, premiered on Netflix on June 7, 2019, with Laura Linney, Olympia Dukakis, Barbara Garrick and Paul Gross reprising their roles.^[1]