Audience Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
Binding: DVD
EAN: 5014503148720
Format: Black & White, PAL
Label: 2 Entertain Video
Languages: EnglishOriginal Language
Manufacturer: 2 Entertain Video
Number Of Discs: 7
Number Of Items: 7
Publisher: 2 Entertain Video
Region Code: 2
Release Date: August 23, 2004
Running Time: 999 minutes
Studio: 2 Entertain Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1967

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.co.uk Review:
The Forsyte Saga is often cited as the first television miniseries; it wasn't, but there's no question that it was a singular, powerful cultural phenomenon that deservedly got under the skin of European viewers in 1967. Today the 26-episode production, based on several novels and short stories by John Galsworthy, is a more timeless enterprise than many of the protracted British TV dramas that have followed. While it would be wrong to consider The Forsyte Saga high art, it's certainly a mesmerizing and inspired mix of theater, sprawling Victorian narrative, thinking man's soap opera, and some finely tuned, 1960s black-and-white production values that (especially when shot outdoors) are strikingly handsome.

Above all, Forsyte is driven by its characters--perhaps to an extreme, though the two-generation storyline makes no apologies for creating compelling people whose capacity for short-sighted blundering, bursts of grace, and slow-brewing redemption make them recognizably human. Eric Porter towers over everything as Soames Forsyte, a humorless attorney whose guiding principles of measurable value cause great heartache but slowly evolve, leaving him a graying, good father, arts patron, and sympathetic repository of memory. From the cast of 150 or so, other standouts include Susan Hampshire as Soames's troubled daughter, Nyree Dawn Porter as the wife of two very different Forsyte men, and Kenneth More as the family's artistic black sheep. --Tom Keogh




Rating: - BY ALL MEANS GO FOR IT
I was sent to bed when the serie was shown in France in 1967, 10 years old at the time, but I amazingly remembered Kenneth More, Eric Porter and Nyree Dawn Porter faces. My mother was absolutly taken by the show and had no time for a kid.
Just last year, in Oslo, I walked into a news stand and found a very cheap print of the book. I bought it...........and let it rest until this summer on my coffee table. I finally took it while on a 10 days hike in the austrian alps and couldn't let go of ... Read More

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Rating: - Why hadn't they the foresight to make it in colour?
I can vividly remember the panic of Sunday evenings - bath, hairwash, school uniform laid out by 7.15pm or suffer the wrath of Mum. If she missed a second of this series the consequences were dire.
As I watched this DVD I remembered most of the plot, even though I was definitely too young to watch it back in the day. I think I was actually remembering Mum's reactions to the plot and my view of the characters was certainly coloured by her opinion - initially.
Am the only viewer who actually ... Read More

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Rating: - The Not So Discreet and Limited Charm of the Bourgeoisie
The Forsytes are a Victorian extended family of property owners and solicitors whose main obsession is keeping their capital intact and above all in the family. This series was first shown on in the UK, on BBC2 and later BBC1 in 1967 and was eventually shown in many other countries including American PBS (public TV) and in the Soviet Union, where it was the first series from the West to be allowed on TV, no doubt because it shows the materializing effects of bourgeois lifestyle and culture. Nyree Dawn Porter ... Read More

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Rating: - A TV Serial that is High Art
Now available on 7 DVDs, comprising all 26 episodes plus several hours of additional features, this most celebrated and splendid of BBC TV serials was the brainchild of adapter and producer Donald Wilson. Its world-wide success is known to all, but some might not be aware of the following: -

Donald Wilson was denied funds to produce it for ten years. Had there been a delay of a further year the series would have been filmed in colour, as he wished, rather than black and white.

The first ... Read More

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Rating: - Interestingly Dated
An excellent example of British period drama during the New Wave era of the late sixties. Although it is rather repetitive after episode 4/5, it's great for anyone interested in looking at filming techniques of early tv adaptations.

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