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| Series cast summary: | |||
| Glenda Jackson | ... | Queen Elizabeth I 6 episodes, 1971 | |
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Ronald Hines | ... | William Cecil (Lord Burghley) 5 episodes, 1971 |
| Robert Hardy | ... | Robert Dudley (Earl of Leicester) 3 episodes, 1971 | |
| Stephen Murray | ... | Walsingham 3 episodes, 1971 | |
| John Shrapnel | ... | Earl of Sussex 3 episodes, 1971 | |
| Angela Thorne | ... | Lettice Knollys, Lady Leicester 3 episodes, 1971 | |
| Robin Ellis | ... | Robert Devereaux (Earl of Essex) 2 episodes, 1971 | |
| Peter Jeffrey | ... | King Philip II of Spain 2 episodes, 1971 | |
| Rachel Kempson | ... | Kat Ashley 2 episodes, 1971 | |
| Vivian Pickles | ... | Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots / ... 2 episodes, 1971 | |
| Peter Howell | ... | Lord Howard 2 episodes, 1971 | |
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When Elizabeth Tudor comes to the throne, her (male) advisers know she has to marry. Doesn't she? Thus starts a decades-long political/ matrimonial game, during an age of high passions and high achievement.
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13 February 1972 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Elizabeth R See more »Filming Locations:
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Glenda Jackson would later reprise her role as Queen Elizabeth I in Mary, Queen of Scots (1971). Coincidentally, Rachel Kempson's daughter Vanessa Redgrave played the title character in that production. See more »Goofs
The courtyard in Elizabeth's palace contains an aviary with several Australian white cockatoos, long before any European had landed in Australia. See more »Quotes
Queen Elizabeth I: I grieve, and dare not show my discontent. I love, and yet I am forced to seem to hate. I do, yet dare not say I ever meant. I seem stark mute, but inwardly I do prate. I am, and not. I freeze, yet am burned since from myself my other self I turned. My care is like my shadow in the sun... follows me flying, flies when I pursue it. Stand and lies by me, doth what I have done. This too familiar care doth make me rue it, not means I find to rid him from my breast. Til, by the end of things, it be ...See more »
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While it's perfectly true that production values have come along way since this early Masterpiece Theater effort, the writing and acting are of such high quality that you won't mind; this one certainly helped set the standards for subsequent series and performances.