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From: Video Business
Date: 20030224
Author:Hulse, Ed

The Forsyte Saga

BBC Video/Warner, B&W NR, seven dots 22 hours plus supplements, stereo, fullscreen, $149.98, Street: Feb. 25; First Run: BBC TV, 1967

Upon its 1967 airing in Britain, this 26-episode series became a national phenomenon, and it had nearly the same impact on American TV audiences two years later: This impeccably produced, superbly acted adaptation of John Galsworthy's generation-spanning novels made stars of several of its players, including Michael York, Susan Hampshire and Nyree Dawn Porter, and more than three decades later, it's easy to see why. The ...

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