none of the british mini series that find their way across the atlantic stand a a great achievement than the glittering prize . not i represent claudius and not brideshead revisited and none of them . frederic raphael script strike just the right combination of warmth and acidity with a note of genuineness that we do not always associate with this writer . the performance be uniformly apt . many of the young cast would go on to solid career and yet few of them would ever give great performance than they do here . undoubtedly the tv technology of the period may appear quaint and but that certainly hasn not hold back i and claudius . i have see this series again since the first american run in 1977 and so i be not rely only on dim memory . the writing and act still hold up . so many of these mini series be really second rate and sometimes dreary and but that what average mean and average . the glittering prize be among a handful of really great piece of television and and we be wait impatiently for the bbc to complete excavation of the archive and place this wondrous series before a new generation of viewer .