The Pallisers The Pallisers The Pallisers is a 1974 BBC television adaptation of Anthony Trollope's Palliser novels. Set in Victorian era England with a backdrop of parliamentary life, Simon Raven's dramatisation covers six of Anthony Trollope's novels and follows the events of the characters over two decades. The series featured a huge cast of prominent and rising actors. The series begins with the story of Lady Glencora (Susan Hampshire), fiancée of the dry, aristocratic Plantagenet Palliser (Philip Latham) who will inherit the title of the Duke of Omnium and Gatherum from his uncle (Roland Culver). Although they marry, Lady Glencora still pines
The Pallisers "Phineas Redux". Plantagenet Palliser becomes Prime Minister. Lady Glencora becomes a society hostess. It concludes with the death of Glencora, and the story of the marriages of the children. These episodes cover the events of the last two of Trollope's Palliser novels, "The Prime Minister" and "The Duke's Children". All episodes of "The Pallisers" are available on DVD in Australia, the United Kingdom and North America. Reviewing the series for the 2016 rebroadcast, Gerald O'Donovan wrote, "In a world where BBC drama tends to be commissioned in taste-testing dribs and drabs of three or six episodes the mere fact that