Moonfleet (1984 TV series)

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Moonfleet
GenreAdventure
Based on Moonfleet by J. Meade Falkner
Written byGeorge Day
Directed by Colin Cant
Starring David Daker
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series1
No. of episodes6
Production
ProducerPaul Stone
Running time30 minutes
Production company BBC
Original release
Network BBC One
Release22 February (1984-02-22) 
28 March 1984 (1984-03-28)

Moonfleet is a British period television drama series which aired on BBC One in 1984. It is based on the classic 1898 adventure novel Moonfleet by J. Meade Falkner, about smuggling on the Dorset coast in the eighteenth century, earlier made into a 1955 film of the same title directed by Fritz Lang. [1]

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  1. Goble p.150

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