The Count of Monte Cristo
Created by	Sidney Marshall
Starring	George Dolenz
Country of origin	United Kingdom
No. of episodes	39
Production
Cinematography	Lionel Banes
Running time	25 minutes
Production companies	ITC Entertainment TPA
Original release
Network	ATV forITV
Release	20 February (1956-02-20) – 7 December 1956 (1956-12-07)

The Count of Monte Cristo is a 1956 British cult swashbuckler adventure television series produced byITC Entertainment/TPA and adapted very loosely fromthe 1844 novel byAlexandre Dumas by Sidney Marshall. It premiered in the UK in early 1956 and ran for 39 thirty-minute episodes dramatizing the continuing adventures of Edmond Dantès, the self-styled Count of Monte Cristo, during the reign ofLouis Philippe I d'Orléans, King of the French from 1830 to 1848. The first twelve episodes were filmed in the United States, at theHal Roach studios, with the rest being filmed at ITC's traditional home ofElstree.^[1]

ITC produced afilm based on the same source-material,The Count of Monte-Cristo, in 1975.

• George Dolenz as the title character
• Fortunio Bonanova
• Robert Cawdron
• Nick Cravat

Guest stars who would go on to later fame includedPatrick Troughton,Stratford Johns,Cyril Shaps,Anthony Newlands,John Barrard,Raf De La Torre andNigel Davenport.

1. "A Toy for the Infanta"
2. "Marseilles"
3. "The Luxembourg Affair"
4. "The Texas Affair"
5. "The Mazzini Affair"
6. "The Carbonari"
7. "The Devil's Emissary"
8. "Bordeaux"
9. "Flight to Calais"
10. "Albania"
11. "Naples"
12. "The Art of Terror"
13. "The Experiment"
14. "Mecklenburg"
15. "The Portuguese Affair"
16. "Lichtenburg"
17. "Burgundy"
18. "Majorca"
19. "Sicily"
20. "A Matter of Justice"
21. "Athens"
22. "The Talleyrand Affair"
23. "The Island"
24. "The Barefoot Empress"
25. "The Brothers"
26. "Monaco"
27. "Point, Counter Point"
28. "The Black Death"
29. "Victor Hugo"
30. "Return to the Chateau D'if"
31. "The Pen and the Sword"
32. "The Sardinian Affair"
33. "The Affair of the Three Napoleons"
34. "The Deberry Affair"
35. "The First Train to Paris"
36. "The Golden Blade"
37. "The Duel"
38. "Andorra"
39. "An Affair of Honour"

A 5-disc DVD set containing all thirty-nine re-mastered and uncut, original episodes was released by Network Distributing Ltd Home Entertainment/Granada Ventures Ltd on 12 April 2010 (currently only in Region 2 PAL format; not yet available in the United States).

• The Count of Monte Cristo atIMDb

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