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The Glittering Prizes

  • TV Mini Series
  • 19761976
  • 7h 51m
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8.4/10
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Tom Conti in The Glittering Prizes (1976)
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Twenty years in the lives of some Cambridge undergraduates, who all find that the real world of a changing Britain is a hard place.Twenty years in the lives of some Cambridge undergraduates, who all find that the real world of a changing Britain is a hard place.Twenty years in the lives of some Cambridge undergraduates, who all find that the real world of a changing Britain is a hard place.
IMDb RATING
8.4/10
156
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POPULARITY
31,048
158
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    • Stars
      • Tom Conti
      • Barbara Kellerman
      • Mark Wing-Davey
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      • Tom Conti
      • Barbara Kellerman
      • Mark Wing-Davey
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    • 13User reviews
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    • Nominated for 2 BAFTA Awards
      • 1 win & 2 nominations total

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    Tom Conti
    Tom Conti
    • Adam Morris
    4 episodes4 eps • 1976
    Barbara Kellerman
    Barbara Kellerman
    • Barbara Morris…
    4 episodes4 eps • 1976
    Mark Wing-Davey
    Mark Wing-Davey
    • Mike Clode
    4 episodes4 eps • 1976
    Clive Merrison
    Clive Merrison
    • Bill Bourne
    3 episodes3 eps • 1976
    Emily Richard
    Emily Richard
    • Anna Cunningham
    3 episodes3 eps • 1976
    John Gregg
    John Gregg
    • Alan Parks
    3 episodes3 eps • 1976
    Malcolm Stoddard
    Malcolm Stoddard
    • Dan Bradley
    3 episodes3 eps • 1976
    Roger Hammond
    Roger Hammond
    • Ronald Braithwaite…
    3 episodes3 eps • 1976
    Nigel Havers
    Nigel Havers
    • Denis Porson
    3 episodes3 eps • 1976
    Jeremy Child
    Jeremy Child
    • John Cadman
    3 episodes3 eps • 1976
    Leonard Sachs
    Leonard Sachs
    • Lionel Morris
    3 episodes3 eps • 1976
    Angela Down
    • Joyce Bradley…
    2 episodes2 eps • 1976
    Anna Carteret
    Anna Carteret
    • Barbara Parks…
    2 episodes2 eps • 1976
    Suzanne Stone
    • Jo-Ann Case…
    2 episodes2 eps • 1976
    Steve Plytas
    Steve Plytas
    • Bruno Lazlo
    2 episodes2 eps • 1976
    Simon Cadell
    Simon Cadell
    • Ken Hobbs
    2 episodes2 eps • 1976
    Dinsdale Landen
    Dinsdale Landen
    • Gavin Pope
    1 episode1 ep • 1976
    David Robb
    David Robb
    • Donald Davidson
    1 episode1 ep • 1976
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    • Trivia
      It was generally believed that the central character in this mini-series, a brilliant Jewish student at Cambridge who becomes a novelist and film writer, was an autobiographical portrait of Frederic Raphael, the scriptwriter of the series.
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      Featured in Zomergasten: Episode #2.1 (1989)

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    Why can't I buy this!!!
    This series, which ran on PBS in the '70s, was written by award-winning screenwriter and novelist Frederic Raphael. It follows a group of Cambridge students from the 50's through to the 70's. Several of them are thinly-disguised versions of their real-life counterparts. For example, Tom Conti plays Adam Morris, an aspiring Jewish novelist (presumably Raphael himself) and Mark Wing-Davey (of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy) plays Mike Clode (obviously David Frost.) A wonderful analysis of life in England from the post-war period through to the Swinging '70s. Shamefully, this series has never been released on video.
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    • Release date
      • January 21, 1976 (United Kingdom)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Language
      • English
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      • British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
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      7 hours 51 minutes
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      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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