Thursday, March 08, 2007

BBC's Eagle of the Ninth, 1977

Finally, I found a good photo of BBC's 1977 series of Eagle of the Ninth, showing Aqulia leading his troops. Details of the production can be found here. Marcus Aquila was played by Anthony Higgins. This scene, was, I think also briefly shown in Togas on TV recently, along with a couple of other scenes. Any chance of a DVD release please of the whole series, Auntie Beeb?

From a pedant's point of view, the armour looks dodgy. As it's AD 117 they'd be OK with lorica segmentata, but it looks like scale armour. And the helmets are odd too. Perhaps they are auxiliaries? Nethertheless, I'd rather have a well acted drama with naff costumes than nothing at all ...

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4 Comments:

At 8:29 PM, Blogger Eigon said...

I remember really enjoying the 1977 BBC series. It would be nice to see it again.

 
At 7:21 AM, Blogger Student of History said...

I found your blog by link and am searching for a historical timeline of her books. I am using many of them along with our study of history as they add such a rich layer to it. Do you have a list like this or know where I could obtain one?

Thank you!

Warmly,
Kate

 
At 3:13 PM, Blogger Sandra said...

Sorry, I'm not aware of a time-line. Charles Evans-Gunther, in his 3 part article on this blog gives a short one for some of the Roman Novels.

 
At 11:11 PM, Blogger dom said...

There may yet be a film by Bill Kenworthy ..... also Anthony Lawton has started up again at rosemarysutcliff.wordpress.com

 

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