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Elizabeth R: With Glenda Jackson, Ronald Hines, Robert Hardy, Stephen Murray. When Elizabeth Tudor comes to the throne, her (male) advisers know she has to marry. Doesn't she? Thus starts a decades-long political/matrimonial game, during an age of high passions and high achievement.
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Elizabeth R is a BBC television drama serial of six 90-minute plays starring Glenda Jackson as Queen Elizabeth I of England. It was first broadcast on BBC2 from February to March 1971, through the ABC in Australia and broadcast in the United States on PBS's Masterpiece Theatre.
The fragile succession heralds dangerous times for the young Princess Elizabeth. Having narrowly avoided implication in Sir Thomas Seymour's attempted abduction of her sickly half-brother, the boy King Edward VI, she becomes an unintentional figurehead for a Protestant rebellion led by Thomas Wyatt the Younger when her half-sister Queen Mary I ...
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Years: 1971. Seasons: 1. Genre: Drama. Glenda Jackson stars as Queen Elizabeth I in this series documenting the dramatic reign of the Virgin Queen.
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PBS. Documentary. Watchlist. Where to Watch. This six-part BBC chronicle of the Tudor queen garnered star Glenda Jackson an Emmy for Outstanding Single Performance in a Leading Role. Season 1...