It was this series that kickstarted my unhealthy obsession with the English Civil War and the 17th century. And the hats.

worth every groat of ye olde televiffion licence fee

@paulthomas9271

5 ай бұрын

Punch and Judy were free 😂

@xr6lad

4 ай бұрын

But then the Puritans won and took over Ye Olde CBC (Cromwell z Broadcasting Corporation ) and it became wall to wall sermons and no fun.

@kingcharlesireturn5495

2 ай бұрын

Hear hear

Who else remembers when this premiered on PBS?

@annastinehammersdottir1290

Жыл бұрын

I do! And I have looked for it for years but could not remember the title. So glad to see it again.

@dougearnest7590

Жыл бұрын

I saw Season Two (on PBS) without realizing there was a season one until it was mentioned in passing during one of the intros. It was so good I never would have suspected there was an entire season before it. I didn't have the opportunity to see the first season until decades later (on KZread).

Hands up others for whom watching marvellous content such as this is preferable to ingesting Hollywood rubbish on Netflix?⁉

So, I bethought me; ‘I shall seke upon ThouTube for televisional presentaciones of mine childhode’.

@horationelson57

11 ай бұрын

Well put, Squire.

@a.t.c.3862

6 ай бұрын

Verily!

I love old historical series.

The series, created by John Hawkesworth, was a historical drama set during the mid-17th century, dealing with the impact of the English Civil War on the fictional Lacey family, made up of both Royalist and Parliamentarian supporters. It follows the family as it is torn apart by the conflicting and changing loyalties of the war, as families were during that time, and the defeat of the Royalist forces at the end of the First English Civil War. Series two covers the second and third civil wars and the eventual Restoration of the Monarchy. The last episodes see the surviving members of the family (from both sides of the divide) witness the arrival of King Charles II on a visit to the ancestral Lacey home.

I did in enjoy Mary & George about King James & his lover , James V1 & 1 . As for production wonderful cast obviously huge money put into it yet at the same time. I’d absolutely adore these 70s 80s productions are so wonderful beautifully acted don’t have all the money behind them but yet they’re like Pure theatre plays such a treat

So pleased to find this. I loved this series.

OMG I remember when this first was aired. Really pleased to see this, thank you!

Haven't seen this since the 80s brilliant !! Thank you 😊

Superb series.

Thank You so much for posting this wonderful series! I have enjoyed them immensely 😊

What is a king, exactly? From where does his authority come? To what extent is opposition to his dictates justified? What if the nation also has an elected body to govern it? Which authority triumphs? By the seventeenth century, these issues were boiling over. Divine rule was no longer accepted without question.

What a great series ❤ Thank you for sharing it with us

Love the on period music and dancing

Before they started hiring actors from all over the world for period drama set in England

@LuciThomasHardylover-qx6ts

14 күн бұрын

Because now they have to sell to overseas. Americans are notorious for insisting on at least a couple of their own,they like what they know. We used to laugh along to the awful made-for-television 'films' of the 1980's, how they would shoehorn in the American actors - usually the rich American buying an enormous English country house is the setting for the murder or romance! 😂 It's not as though many home grown actors can really speak properly anyway. Watching younger actors trying to sound 'posh' is just stressful.

I think several of these actors maybe Quare. What say you Bunny!

great series. Saw this when I was a young lad.

A quick roll in the hay my lovely 😂

LOVE THIS SERIES . THANK YOU !

Thank you so much for this. Much appreciated. Great series. Love these.

It is a shame when this series came out I was not 16 years old or even older

“If our children start defying us, what hope is there for our country in these times.”

@paulthomas9271

5 ай бұрын

Imagine dealing with the kids now 😂probably put them in the dungeon 😂or a little go on the ducking chairs 😂

I love the fashions of this era. I'm not an expert, but it seems like the costumes, men's and women's, were well researched.

@LuciThomasHardylover-qx6ts

14 күн бұрын

They are well done. And the women's makeup is a fraction of what we'd have now, and the natural hair colours. It's a softness that modern casting doesn't even know it should try for. It all makes such a difference.

I wonder why they can't make historical drama series like this anymore? I guess viewership and costs. Well there, I answered my own damn question!😛

@ciaran6171

3 ай бұрын

I'd rather they wouldn't. They'd make a pig's ear of it showing how the dispute at the heart of the Civil War was actually racism.

@LuciThomasHardylover-qx6ts

14 күн бұрын

Not sure tbh. They spent the budget on costumes rather than overpriced actors, but I think that the budgets were probably quite modest compared to now..they couldn't replicate the standard now for many reasons. Primarily that they have to be able to sell the series abroad, America mainly,so have to pitch at a very different level and content. We have to have the obligatory sex scenes, however implausible and unnecessary, and some violence is a bonus. Preferably some sort of who-dunnit murder as a sub plot. Then the costumes are usually awful, without the proper undergarments, the female costumes are always misshapen, and the actresses are too vain to cover their heads as would be authentic. They also have obviously dyed hair, bleached teeth , orange skin and aggressive body language. All of which screams 21st century. As if the aggressive posture isn't odd enough in period costumes the dialogue is so awful now, having to pander to a tick list of modern sensibilities. The scene with the daughter defying her father which was rather briefer than one would expect to be realistic would be full of little speeches along the lines of Disney you -can-be-anything-you-want twaddle that we're supposed to tell our children to boost their self esteem 🙄 Then we'd have to have a couple of black noblemen and an openly gay priest to round things off, with no-one actually being able to speak properly but all forcing themselves to speak 'posh'. I very very rarely watch any dramas made after the turn of the century, just too painful.Dickens, Austin, Brontë,Hardy and Gaskell must spin in their graves!

8:29 - Pasties, pickools, ‘AM, cheesecake, woine! Lol Mrs Dumfrey.

thanks

Great show.

Thank you

Thanks alot

To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time Robert Herrick Gather ye Rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying: And this same flower that smiles to day, To morrow will be dying. The glorious Lamp of Heaven, the Sun, The higher he's a getting; The sooner will his Race be run, And neerer he's to Setting. That Age is best, which is the first, When Youth and Blood are warmer; But being spent, the worse, and worst Times, still succeed the former. Then be not coy, but use your time; And while ye may, go marry: For having lost but once your prime, You may forever tarry.[1]

@steelers6titles

7 ай бұрын

Let's Get It On--Marvin Gaye

Should be on the dvd.

I believe one negative review of this first episode was headlined "By the Script Defeated". I don't think it is badly written. I just find stuff shot on video looks cheap.

Many thanks for the upload. Is there somewhere these files are available?

When she said around the 32.15 Mark our family have worshiped here since King Henry’s time with no thought of Rome Was she refereeing to King Henry I or King Henry VIII

@proudhon100

Жыл бұрын

Henry VIII - "with no thought of Rome."

Thank you for uploading this. Makes a change from all the woke trash being currently churned out.

Would they be allowed to wander off together without a chaperone?

@morbius109

7 ай бұрын

I dare say with their fathers and stewards distracted, and Goodwife Margaret with Lucinda, it wasn’t too hard for them to slip away for a while. Though you’re right that in those days, an as yet unwed couple wouldn’t normally be let to do so, haha.

@korowheke3182

3 ай бұрын

There a country estate, distant from polite society so prone to be more lax than they should be@@morbius109

@LuciThomasHardylover-qx6ts

14 күн бұрын

Nor would the father have been quite so cool by his daughter snubbing marriage to a title. However old his family, there would have been repercussions for them to have caused such a loss of face.

The best part is the spanking scene, but not as good as the scene in lady Jane.