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| The Scarlet Pimpernel | |
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 Series one title card | |
| Based on | The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy |
| Written by | Richard Carpenter |
| Starring | Richard E. Grant Martin Shaw (series 1) Elizabeth McGovern (series 1) Caroline Carver (series 2) |
| Theme music composer | Michal Pavlíček |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| No. of series | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 6 |
| Production | |
| Producers | Julian Murphy Colin Ludlow |
| Cinematography | Simon Kossoff Peter Greenhalgh |
| Editors | Jeremy Strachan Beverley Mills |
| Running time | 90 minutes |
| Production companies | London Films A&E Television Productions BBC Birmingham Productions |
| Original release | |
| Network | BBC One |
| Release | 24 January 1999 – 1 November 2000 |
The Scarlet Pimpernel is a 1999 series of television drama programmes loosely based on Baroness Emmuska Orczy's series of novels, set during the French Revolution. [1]
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It stars Richard E. Grant as Sir Percy Blakeney, and his alter ego, the eponymous hero. [2] The first series also starred Elizabeth McGovern as his wife Marguerite and Martin Shaw as the Pimpernel's archrival, Paul Chauvelin. [2] Robespierre was played by Ronan Vibert.
It was filmed in the Czech Republic and scored by a Czech composer, Michal Pavlíček.
