The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel
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The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel is a British television series based on the adventure novel of the same name by Baroness Emmuska Orczy. The series, produced by the Towers of London for Incorporated Television Programmes, was created by writer Michael Hogan, who wrote most of the show's episodes; it ran from 1955 for a total of eighteen episodes. The production starred Marius Goring as Sir Percy Blakeney (aka the Scarlet Pimpernel), Stanley Van Beers as Chauvelin, Patrick Troughton as Sir Andrew Ffoulkes, Anthony Newlands as Lord Richard Hastings, Alexander Gauge as George, the Prince Regent, Lucie Mannheim as Countess La Valliere, and Maureen Connell as Melanie de Monsants.
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