- The Devil's Crown
"The Devil's Crown" was a
BBC television series which dramatised the reigns of threemedieval Kings of England : Henry II and his sons Richard I and John. It was shown in theUnited Kingdom in thirteen 55-minute episodes between30 April and23 July 1978 . It has never been released onDVD .The series was written by Jack Russell and Ken Taylor. It starred
Brian Cox as Henry II, Michael Byrne as Richard I, andJohn Duttine as John, withRalph Arliss as Geoffrey Bastard,Lynsey Baxter asIsabella of Angoulême , Peter Benson asBlondel de Nesle ,Roy Boyd asRanulf de Glanvill e,Lucy Gutteridge as Princess Alys, Michael Hawkins as Richard De Lacy, Ian Hogg as William de Brieuse,Charles Kay asLouis VII of France ,Jane Lapotaire as Aliéner d'Aquitaine,Ralph Michael asHubert Walter , andPatrick Troughton as William Marshal.External links
* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0170908/ "The Devil's Crown" at the Internet Movie Database]
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