I, Claudius

Limited Series

1976

50m

TV-14

BBC Two

1 Season

12 Episodes

Episode Guide

English

Drama, War & Politics, History

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8.6

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Acclaimed blackly comic historical drama series. Set amidst a web of power, corruption and lies, it chronicles the reigns of the Roman emperors - Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula and finally Claudius.

I, Claudius

TV-14

Limited Series

1976

50m

English

BBC Two

Drama, War & Politics, History

1 Season

12 Episodes

Episode Guide

Watch on Acorn TV

Acclaimed blackly comic historical drama series. Set amidst a web of power, corruption and lies, it chronicles the reigns of the Roman emperors - Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula and finally Claudius.

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Cast

Claudius

Sejanus

Nero

Drusus

Naevius Sutorius Macro

Augustus

Julia

Antonia

Livia

Tiberius

Caligula

Germanicus

Directed By: Herbert Wise (12 Episodes)

Written By: Robert Graves (12 Episodes) (Novel), Jack Pulman (12 Episodes)

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FinFan says...

7 years ago

In a way this is similar to shows like The Borgias or The Tudors albeit 40 years older. This is done like a stage play, which was typical for the BBC around the time, that kind of puts the viewer on the stage amidst the actors. I´m guessing it must have cost a fortune by 70s TV standards to produce this. It features an amazing cast of actors, a lot of them would become well knows stars of TV and cinema.

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Blast_Fiend says...

3 years ago

A perfectly adequate political chamber drama, but its adherence to the BBC model of bone-dry theatre impersonation makes you wonder why it needed to exist. All the more tragic then that one of the supreme masters of cinema, Josef von Sternberg, never finished his planned film adaptation of Graves' novels. Sternberg's decadence and psychological grotesquerie would have been a far better match for the source material than the dull, anti-art sensibilities of crusty BBC writers and directors.

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rnhaas

8/10 3 months ago

I don’t know when the first English-language TV adaptation of a novel or series of novels was, but I suspect this has a claim to be one of the earlier ones. Even if we spread out to movies, there were very few thorough and complete adaptations of novels, as movies were just too short. So, whatever More

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