The Count of Monte Cristo was a 1956 ITC Entertainment

ITC Entertainment

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/TPA

Television Programs of America

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 television series adapted very loosely from the novel

The Count of Monte Cristo

The Count of Monte Cristo is an adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas. It is often considered to be, along with The Three Musketeers, Dumas's most popular work. He completed the work in 1844...

 by Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumas, père

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, adapted by Sidney Marshall. It premiered in the UK in early 1956 and ran for 39 thirty minute episodes. The first twelve episodes were filmed in the US, at the Hal Roach

Hal Roach

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 studios, with the rest being filmed at ITC's traditional home of Elstree

Elstree

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A 5-disc DVD set containing all thirty-nine episodes was released by Network Studio on April 12th 2010 (currently only in Region 2 PAL format; not yet available in the United States).

ITC produced a film

Film

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 based on the same source-material, The Count of Monte-Cristo

The Count of Monte Cristo (1975 film)

The Count of Monte-Cristo is a 1975 television film produced by ITC Entertainment and based upon the book The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, père...

, in 1975.

Main cast

• George Dolenz
  George Dolenz
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   as the title character
• Fortunio Bonanova
  Fortunio Bonanova
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• Robert Cawdron
• Nick Cravat
  Nick Cravat
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Minor guest stars who would go on to later fame included Patrick Troughton

Patrick Troughton

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, Stratford Johns

Stratford Johns

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, Cyril Shaps

Cyril Shaps

-Biography:Shaps was born in Highbury, London; he was of Polish ancestry and his father was a tailor.He was a child broadcaster, providing voices for radio commercials at the age of 12. After grammar school and Army service he trained at RADA and then worked for two years as an announcer, producer...

, Anthony Newlands

Anthony Newlands

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 and Nigel Davenport

Nigel Davenport

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Episode list

1. A Toy for the Infanta
2. Marseilles
3. The Luxembourg Affair
4. The Texas Affair
5. The Mazzini Affair
6. The Carbonari
7. The Devil's Emissary
8. Bordeaux
9. Flight to Calais
10. Albania
11. Naples
12. The Art of Terror
13. The Experiment
14. Mecklenburg
15. The Portuguese Affair
16. Lichtenburg
17. Burgundy
18. Majorca
19. Sicily
20. A Matter of Justice
21. Athens
22. The Talleyrand Affair
23. The Island
24. The Barefoot Empress
25. The Brothers
26. Monaco
27. Point, Counter Point
28. The Black Death
29. Victor Hugo
30. Return to the Chateau D'if
31. The Pen and the Sword
32. The Sardinian Affair
33. The Affair of the Three Napoleons
34. The Dubarry Affair
35. The First Train to Paris
36. The Golden Blade
37. The Duel
38. Andorra
39. An Affair of Honour

External links

• TV.com entry