The First Churchills (PBS Masterpiece Theatre) 1969

Format : Matroska ver 2
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Duration : 43mn 5s
Nominal bit rate : 1 500 Kbps
Width : 706 pixels
Height : 480 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 4:3
Frame rate : 29.970 fps
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Writing library : x264 core 120
Language : English


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The First Churchills was a BBC serial from 1969 about the life of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough and his wife, Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough. It starred John Neville as the duke and Susan Hampshire as the duchess, was written and produced by Donald Wilson, and was directed by David Giles.

The serial presents the lives of John and Sarah Churchill from their meeting in 1673 until a time shortly before the first duke's death in 1722, and shows, along the way, much of the context of English politics at the same time. Like many BBC serials of the era, it was made on a low production budget, with sound studio sets, and generally avoided battle and crowd scenes out of inability to stage them in a convincing manner. The series is based on the Marlboroughs' famous descendant Winston Churchill's life of his ancestor the Duke, and as such presents a very favourable portrait of the Marlboroughs.

The closing credits theme is the second piece, a Rondeau, of Henry Purcell's incidental music, composed about 1695, to Aphra Behn's 1676 play Abdelazer, or The Moor's Revenge.


01 - The Chaste Nymph
02 - Bridals
03 - Plot Counter-Plot
04 - The Lion and the Unicorn
05 - Rebellion
06 - The Protestant Wind
07 - Trial of Strength
08 - The Queen Commands
09 - Reconciliation
10 - A Famous Victory
11 - Breaking the Circle
12 - Not Without Honour