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Masterpiece (formerly known as Masterpiece Theatre) is a drama anthology television series produced by WGBH Boston. It premiered on Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) on January 10, 1971, making it America's longest-running weekly prime time drama series. The series has presented numerous acclaimed British productions. Many of these are produced by the BBC, but the line-up has also included programs shown on the commercial services ITV and Channel 4.
Masterpiece is best known for presenting adaptations of novels and biographies, but it also shows original television dramas. The first title to air was The First Churchills, starring Susan Hampshire as Sarah Churchill. Other programs presented on the series include The Six Wives of Henry VIII; Elizabeth R; I, Claudius; Upstairs, Downstairs; The Duchess of Duke Street; The Citadel; The Jewel in the Crown; Reckless, House of Cards; Traffik; and Jeeves and Wooster. More recent popular titles include Prime Suspect; The Forsyte Saga; Sherlock; and Downton Abbey.
Alistair Cooke KBE (20 November 1908 – 30 March 2004) was a British journalist, television personality and broadcaster. Outside his journalistic output, which included Letter from America and Alistair Cooke's America, he was well known in the United States as the host of PBS Masterpiece Theatre from 1971 to 1992. After holding the job for 22 years, and having worked in television for 42 years, Cooke retired in 1992, although he continued to present Letter from America until shortly before his death. He was the father of author and folk singer John Byrne Cooke.
Cooke was born in Salford, Lancashire, England, the son of Mary Elizabeth (Byrne) and Samuel Cooke. His father was a lay Methodist preacher and metalsmith by trade; his mother's family were of Irish Protestant origin. Originally named Alfred, he changed his name to Alistair when he was 22. He was educated at Blackpool Grammar School, Blackpool and won a scholarship to Jesus College, Cambridge, where he gained an honours degree (2:1) in English. He was heavily involved in the arts, was editor of Granta, and set up the Mummers, Cambridge's first theatre group open to both sexes, from which he notably rejected a young James Mason, telling him to stick to architecture.
MASTERPIECE THEATRE | The Complete Jane Austen | PBS
MASTERPIECE | Poldark: 1977 Series Introduction by Alistair Cooke | PBS
Reckless 1997 Part 1
VICTORIA on MASTERPIECE | Season 1 Episode 1 Scene | PBS
The Last of the Mohicans Tim Goodman
TRAFFIK ep1
The American (Masterpiece Theatre) 1/4
Rebecca 1997 TV
Masterpiece Theatre - Anna Karenina (Part 1)
Masterpiece Full Movie
The First Churchills PBS Masterpiece Theatre 02 Bridals
The First Churchills PBS Masterpiece Theatre 09 Reconciliation
The First Churchills PBS Masterpiece Theatre 05 Rebellion
The First Churchills PBS Masterpiece Theatre 01 The Chaste Nymph
Buy the DVD: http://www.shoppbs.org/entry.point?entry=3052871&source;=PBSCS_YOUTUBE_MAST453_JANEAUSTEN:N:DGR:N:N:209:QPBS MASTERPIECE THEATRE presents The Complete Jane Austen. This four-month, first-ever U.S. television extravaganza includes new productions of "Persuasion," "Northanger Abbey," "Mansfield Park," and "Sense and Sensibility," along with classic productions of "Emma" and "Pride and Prejudice." Save your Sundays! For more information visit http://www.pbs.org/janeausten PBS air dates: Starting Sunday, January 13 at 9/8C (check local listings).
Just in time for the premiere of the reimagined Poldark, see Alistair Cooke's introduction of the original, 1977 series. #PoldarkPBS
Official Website: http://to.pbs.org/2fQP1Kr | #VictoriaPBS Queen Victoria meets her Prime Minister and reveals the moment she knew she would be queen. Victoria premieres on Sunday, January 15, 2017 at 9/8c on MASTERPIECE on PBS. Subscribe to the PBS channel for more clips: https://www.youtube.com/user/PBS/featured Enjoy full episodes of your favorite PBS programs at pbs.org/video. Like MASTERPIECE on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/masterpiecepbs Follow MASTERPIECE on Twitter: https://twitter.com/masterpiecepbs Follow MASTERPIECE on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/masterpiecepbs/ Official MASTERPIECE website: http://www.pbs.org/masterpiece/ Like PBS on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pbs/ Follow PBS on Twitter: https://twitter.com/PBS Follow PBS on Instagram: https://www.inst...
A selection of clips from the classic BBC Series Last of the Mohicans from 1971 featuring Tim Goodman as Duncan Heyward.
EPISODE ONE (1) Premiered: April 22, 1990, `Masterpiece Theatre' on PBS Rating: TV-14 1989 British mini-series about the drug trade that spawned Steven Soderbergh's Oscar-winning movie `Traffic'. Winning an International Emmy, this gritty drama brilliantly interweaves stories of our contemporary, conventional producers, suppliers, users and others caught up in the global heroin business. SUMMARY: The operations (shit) stays the same (although complexities may change) only the flies change. " Going to the extremes of 'anything' is a form of insanity " ~expounded by C.Glow
The era when upstart America challenged the ancient privileges of Europe is portrayed in The American, an adaptation of Henry James's darkly romantic novel. Set in 1868, the story follows the fortunes of Christopher Newman (Matthew Modine), a 19th-century "new man" who has amassed a fortune in California and heads to Europe to learn its ways and find a wife. After arriving in Paris, naïvely receptive to all its charms and mysteries, he becomes enchanted with Claire de Cintré (Aisling O'Sullivan), a young Parisian widow whose beauty and enigmatic background ignite obsessive desire in the handsome American. But his overtures are discouraged in no uncertain terms by Claire's imperious mother, Madame de Bellegarde (Emmy award winner Diana Rigg), a descendant of ancient nobility who stops at ...
Based on the Gothic romance novel by Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca is a classic tale of love and hate. Maxim De Winter marries a woman half his age only a year after his first wife, the beautiful and accomplished Rebecca, dies. She finds herself in an aristocratic social world her middle class upbringing did not prepare her for, and housekeeper Mrs Danvers despises her for taking her darling Rebecca's place. But these are not the only problems to face...
PBS/Music Publishing Collecting Society (2000). Leo Tolstoy's powerful tale of love and marriage in imperial Russia comes to Masterpiece Theatre in a stunningly modern adaptation of Anna Karenina. Starring: Helen McCrory, Kevin McKidd, and Stephen Dillane.
PLEASE PLEASE SHARE this film it was shot on a miniscule to no budget and we need your help to get this film seen. Totally free for you all to view forever, please help support independent film and help out a struggling hard working team who created this film. Synopsis - Martin, a struggling writer, starts writing his first novel. However his Masterpiece leads him and those around him down a path of darkness, despair and violence. His Masterpiece could make him, or ultimately break him. IMBD link - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1495859/?ref_=rvi_tt
Full Episodes of The First Churchills PBS Masterpiece Theatre tv series
Full Episodes of The First Churchills PBS Masterpiece Theatre tv series
Full Episodes of The First Churchills PBS Masterpiece Theatre tv series
Full Episodes of The First Churchills PBS Masterpiece Theatre tv series
Where I was born ev`rything was dull and dingy
I lived in a place they called "The Inner City"
Getting ahead was strictly a no no
'Cause nobody cares what happens to the folks
That live in the ghetto
Thousands of lives wasting away
People living from day to day
It`s a challenge just staying alive
`Cause in the ghetto only the strong survive
Money I ain`t got none, job can`t find one
The streets raised me from a baby, ooh
Thousands of lives wasting away
People living from day to day
It`s a challenge just staying alive
`Cause in the ghetto only the strong survive
Broken down homes, kids strung out
They don`t even know what life`s all about
Stealin` cars, robbin` bars
Mugging, drugs, rat infested
And no one`s interested
Kids dodging cars for recreation
Only adds to a mother`s frustration
Break-ins, folks comin` home
And finding all their possessions gone
Oh it`s an ev`ry day thing - well well - in the ghetto
Oh it`s an ev`ry day thing in the ghetto