Thanks to everyone who took part! After one week and 300 people casting their vote, the results are in. I don't think there are many surprises at the top of the list but I'm surprised with some of the films that haven't been seen by as many as I'd thought such as Berkeley Square, The Lost Prince and Lark Rise to Candleford. I can understand that Lark Rise hasn't yet been aired in the States so hopefully once it does, that number will change! Berkeley Square and The Lost Prince are two of my favourite period dramas and I thought more people would have had the chance to watch them! There was a total of 6,182 votes cast in total which gives an average of 20.6 out of 50 films watched for each person.
(Update: As of December 2009, over 700 people have cast their votes. Thanks for taking part everyone! The results have changed only slightly and can be seen at PollDaddy)
full list found here>> BBC Period Dramas
(number who have seen the film, followed by percentage of voters)
| Pride and Prejudice (1995) | 294 | 98% |
| Sense and Sensibility | 261 | 87% |
| Jane Eyre (2006) | 246 | 82% |
| Persuasion (2007) | 240 | 80% |
| Persuasion (1995) | 236 | 79% |
| Becoming Jane | 228 | 76% |
| North & South | 219 | 73% |
| Cranford | 215 | 72% |
| Wives and Daughters | 200 | 67% |
| Miss Austen Regrets | 172 | 57% |
| Bleak House | 170 | 57% |
| Little Dorrit | 167 | 56% |
| Room with a View | 167 | 56% |
| Jane Eyre (1983) | 167 | 56% |
| Robin Hood | 164 | 55% |
| Daniel Deronda | 151 | 50% |
| Mansfield Park | 149 | 50% |
| Emma | 139 | 46% |
| Middlemarch | 138 | 46% |
| David Copperfield | 135 | 45% |
| Tess of the D'Urbervilles | 132 | 44% |
| Under the Greenwood Tree | 126 | 42% |
| Pride and Prejudice (1980) | 126 | 42% |
| Tenant of Wildfell Hall | 120 | 40% |
| Our Mutual Friend | 119 | 40% |
| Oliver Twist | 116 | 39% |
| Tudors | 116 | 39% |
| The Way We Live Now | 104 | 35% |
| Buccaneers | 99 | 33% |
| Lorna Doone | 97 | 32% |
| He Knew He Was Right | 90 | 30% |
| Les Miserables | 90 | 30% |
| Ballet Shoes | 85 | 28% |
| Other Boleyn Girl | 83 | 28% |
| Old Curiosity Shop | 78 | 26% |
| Anne of Avonlea | 77 | 26% |
| Lark Rise to Candleford | 74 | 25% |
| Lost Prince | 72 | 24% |
| Six Wives of Henry VIII | 68 | 23% |
| Berkeley Square | 68 | 23% |
| Mill on the Floss | 57 | 19% |
| Sharpe's Challenge | 55 | 18% |
| Madame Bovary | 53 | 18% |
| Jewel in the Crown | 49 | 16% |
| Barchester Chronicles | 48 | 16% |
| Cambridge Spies | 32 | 11% |
| The Pallisers | 25 | 8% |
| Adam Bede | 24 | 8% |
| Byron | 21 | 7% |
| The Cazalets | 20 | 7% |
The original poll is here if you'd like to vote...
I'm just starting to catch up with my favourite blogs after being away on holiday, so am late in seeing this poll, but have now "cast my votes" - too late for the count! This list of movies and series brings back some great memories, and also gives me some hints of goodies yet to see. (Some of these were actually made by ITV but I think they may have been packaged as BBC when being sold abroad.) A great idea for a poll.:) Judy
ReplyDeleteThanks to this great blog which I recently discovered, yesterday I had a marathon of Cranford, and I'm totally in love with the series.
ReplyDeleteI grew up with BBC's series, the first one was The Forsyte Saga, I was only ten and I was allowed to stay up late one evening a week. Then came The Six Wives of Henry VIII, Elizabeth R and many others. I was twelve when I fell in love with that fabulous actor called Sir Anthony Hopkins and his portrait of Pierre, my favourite character in War and Peace, which I had already read by then.
In these odd times Portuguese television no longer gives us British series, we are reduced do depressing reality shows. Thank you for alerting me to Cranford, a true gem, I ordered it from Amazon.
My beloved Dame Judi Dench, whom I had the privilege to see along with Dame Maggie Smith a few years ago, third row center, in David Hare's The Breath of Life at the Haymarket Theatre is wonderful as always. And so are all the others.
Needless to say, I'm ordering Elizabeth Gaskell's three novels on which the series was inspired right away.
One final question: any news of a DVD release of the magnificent Clayhanger? Why hasn't it been released yet?
Teresa, Lisbon, Portugal
Ah, so sad to see Maurice didn't rank.
ReplyDeleteThanks for voting! I'll repost results later if they differ from the current count.
ReplyDeleteTeresa, I've never heard of Clayhanger.
Gail, this list was just a sampling since there are more than 50, way more than I had initially thought!
I wish the BBC would release a dvd of Clayhanger (A .Bennett)this is a wonderful drama series shown in 1976 and set in the Potteries Five Towns
ReplyDeleteCould they not be persuaded to show it again on TV as they did with Poldark
Clayhanger was not a BBC production -it was produced by the now defunct ATV.
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