Notorious Woman

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Notorious Woman
Genre Television drama
Written by Harry W. Junkin
Directed by Waris Hussein
Starring Rosemary Harris
George Chakiris
Jeremy Irons
Theme music composer Anthony Isaac
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes7
Production
Producer Pieter Rogers
Original release
Network BBC2
Release3 November 1974 (1974-11-03) 
1974 (1974)

Notorious Woman is a 1974 BBC television serial based on the life of the French author George Sand. It starred Rosemary Harris in the title role. The seven episodes were written by Harry W. Junkin and directed by Waris Hussein.

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In the United States, the series was broadcast in 19751976 as part of the fifth season of Masterpiece Theatre on PBS. [1]

For reasons never volunteered by the BBC, the series was shelved, never re-released nor given an explanation as to why.

Principal cast

Awards and nominations

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