BBC Television Shakespeare - Season 1 Episode 34
Prince Pericles, visiting Antioch, solves King Antiochus's riddle to his daughter's suitors - the answer is that the King has had an incestuous relationship with his daughter. Pericles realizes he must escape to Tyre, and from there he goes to Tarsus to relieve a famine. Pursued by Antiochus's men, his ship is wrecked on the shores of Pentapolis and he marries Thaisa, the daughter of its King. Thaisa gives birth to a daughter, Marina, at sea, and in a great storm Thaisa is thrown overboard in a sea-chest. Coming to land at Ephesus, she believes Pericles is drowned and becomes a priestess of Diana.Pericles arranges for Marina to be brought up by Cleon of Tarsus and his wife Dionyza, and returns to Tyre. Fourteen years go by, and Dionyza, jealous of Marina, is about to have her murdered, when Marina is kidnapped by pirates, who send her to a brothel in Mytilene. Cleon tells Pericles that Marina is dead. Meanwhile, in Mytilene Marina's purity triumphs, startling the governor of the city,
First Air Date : 1978-12-03
Last Air date : 1985-04-27
Runtime : 57 minutes
Cast :
Crew : Shaun Sutton (Producer)
Quality :
Subtitles :
- Season 1 : Episode 11978-12-03
- Season 1 : Episode 21978-12-10
- Season 1 : Episode 31978-12-17
- Season 1 : Episode 41979-02-11
- Season 1 : Episode 51979-02-18
- Season 1 : Episode 61979-02-25
- Season 1 : Episode 71979-12-09
- Season 1 : Episode 81979-12-16
- Season 1 : Episode 91979-12-23
- Season 1 : Episode 101980-01-06
- Season 1 : Episode 111980-02-27
- Season 1 : Episode 121980-02-27
- Season 1 : Episode 131980-10-23
- Season 1 : Episode 141980-02-17
- Season 1 : Episode 151981-01-04
- Season 1 : Episode 161981-02-08
- Season 1 : Episode 171981-04-16
- Season 1 : Episode 181981-05-08
- Season 1 : Episode 191981-10-04
- Season 1 : Episode 201981-11-07
- Season 1 : Episode 211981-12-13
- Season 1 : Episode 221982-09-19
- Season 1 : Episode 231982-12-28
- Season 1 : Episode 241983-01-02
- Season 1 : Episode 251983-01-09
- Season 1 : Episode 261983-01-16
- Season 1 : Episode 271983-01-23
- Season 1 : Episode 281983-07-10
- Season 1 : Episode 291983-11-05
- Season 1 : Episode 301983-12-24
- Season 1 : Episode 311983-12-27
- Season 1 : Episode 321984-04-21
- Season 1 : Episode 331984-11-24
- Season 1 : Episode 341984-12-08
- Season 1 : Episode 351984-12-22
- Season 1 : Episode 361985-01-05
- Season 1 : Episode 371985-04-27