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The series was later adapted into the film Henry VIII and His Six Wives in which Angela Pleasence's father Donald Pleasence played Henry VIII's chief minister Thomas Cromwell.
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Keith Michell (Henry VIII) and Bernard Hepton (Archbishop Thomas Cranmer) are the only actors to reprise their roles in Henry VIII and His Six Wives.
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Unlike most programs that air on "Masterpiece Theatre", this miniseries aired on CBS (a commercial television network) when first presented in the U.S. It was only years later that "Masterpiece Theatre" showed it.
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