The Onedin Line played "Charlotte Onedin" in "Month of the Albatross", "A Clear Conscience" and "Undercurrent". There are six novels based on the series. The first five are all by the series creator, Cyril Abraham: The books are not straightforward novelisations of the television episodes, since the author introduced additional material and also changed a number of details, though dialogue from the series that Abraham had penned himself is utilised. In print, Elizabeth's child is conceived in a private room above a restaurant, not on the "Charlotte Rhodes"; George Callon lasted considerably longer and died in bed after suffering a stroke, not in
The Great War (TV series) The Great War (TV series) The Great War is a 26-episode documentary series from 1964 on the First World War. The documentary was a co-production of the Imperial War Museum, the British Broadcasting Corporation, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the Australian Broadcasting Commission. The narrator was Michael Redgrave, with readings by Marius Goring, Ralph Richardson, Cyril Luckham, Sebastian Shaw and Emlyn Williams. Each episode is long. In August 1963, at the suggestion of Alasdair Milne, producer of the BBC's current affairs programme "Tonight", the BBC resolved to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War with