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Worthy version of Galsworthy; 'Forsyte Saga' airing on PBS.(ARTS)(TELEVISION)

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From: The Washington Times
Date: 20021005
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Byline: Ann Geracimos, THE WASHINGTON TIMES

In choosing to mount a second full-scale version of John Galsworthy's epic novels known in their entirety as "The Forsyte Saga," PBS obviously hopes that success breeds success.

The new eight-part "Masterpiece Theatre" series, which debuts in two parts on local stations tomorrow evening, is a much "quicker" and somewhat racier take on the well-received original that was broadcast in this country 33 years ago. The same themes are paramount - property and propriety as consummate values in a changing Victorian England, butting up ...

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