Back in the mid-70s, I remember watching a mini-series of the Odyssey, probably about eight episodes and likely a BBC production.
Does anyone else remember it? Is it available on DVD?
I remember watching this one, but it wasn’t in the '70s:
Sure you’re not thinking of the feature film starring Kirk Douglas? :dubious:
Coul it be this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Odissea
http://www.superstrangevideo.com/gallery.asp?prodID=3161&prodTitle=Odissea
Italian (not BBC) production but from 1968. I’m pretty sure it’s the one I saw on a French channel in the summer of 1990.
That looks like it. The wiki article says that it showed in Canada in the late 70s. Thanks!
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Sure you’re not thinking of the feature film starring Kirk Douglas?
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No, definitely not Douglas.
It probably wasn’t this one, since the date is wrong, but I’d like to throw a plug in for the Hallmark Network version with Armand Asante from 1997. It was a two-night event IIRC, and was later available on DVD:
Henson’s Muppet Workshop did a lot of the effects, and executive producer was Nicholas Meyer, the King of Good TV Movies. It takes quite a few liberties with the story, but overall is the most faithful version I’ve seen. It does a particularly good job of showing Odysseus’ chummy relationship with the gods. It’s also worth watching for the interesting cast –
Bernadette Peters as Circe
Vanessa Williams as Calypso
Christopher Lee (!) as Tiresias
Michael J. Pollard as Aeolus, the god of the Winds. I swear, the only thing I remember him from was that first-season episode of Star Trek , “Miri”, but I heard that voice and I instantly knew who he was – can’t trust the “grups”
Ooooooooooooooooooh, my God, yessssssssssss!!! Mmmmmmm, mmmmmmm, mmmmmmm!!! :o
He was great in Bonnie and Clyde, too. If I were making a movie version of Going after Cacciato, I’d want Central Casting to find me a “young Michael-J-Pollard type” to play the title character.