Jamaica Inn (1983 TV series) visits the Reverend at his church. The production was originally broadcast as a two episode program in Britain totalling 187 minutes. Later, it was edited down to 150 minutes to fit in a 3 hour timeslot with 30 minutes of advertising for the U.S. market; it was also divided into three parts, the second and third parts constituting the original second episode. Jamaica Inn (1983 TV series) Jamaica Inn is a 1983 British television miniseries adapted from the novel "Jamaica Inn" by Daphne du Maurier. It is a gothic period piece of piracy, smuggling and murder set in northeastern Cornwall,
The New Inn The New Inn The New Inn, or The Light Heart is a Caroline era stage play, a comedy by English playwright and poet Ben Jonson. "The New Inn" was licensed for performance by Sir Henry Herbert, the Master of the Revels, on 19 January 1629, and acted later that year by the King's Men at the Blackfriars Theatre. The original production was a "catastrophic failure...hissed from the Blackfriars stage..." An intended Court performance never took place, according to Jonson's epilogue to the play in the 1631 edition. Jonson was profoundly affected by the failure, and wrote about the affair in