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Around the world in 80 days / a France Télévisions, ZDF, Rai Fiction series ; a Slim Film + Television & Federation Entertainment co-production ; in co-production with Peu Communications ; in co-production with Masterpiece, Be-Films and RTBF (Télévision belge) ; in association with the Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa Limited, Daro Films & BBC ; series created by Ashley Pharoah & Caleb Ranson ; written by Ashley Pharoah, Caleb Ranson, Claire Downes, Ian Jarvis, Stuart Lane, Jessica Ruston, Peter McKenna, Stephen Greenhorn ; produced by Peter McAleese ; directed by Steve Barron, Charles Beeson, Brian Kelly.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: MS62105 | PBSLanguage: English, Undetermined Original language: Undetermined, English Subtitle language: English Publisher: [Arlington, Virginia] : PBS, [2022]Distributor: [Arlington, Virginia] : Distributed by PBS Distribution Copyright date: ©2022Edition: Widescreen versionDescription: 3 videodiscs (approximately 7 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
ISBN:
  • 9781531714215
  • 1531714218
Other title:
  • Around the world in eighty days
Uniform titles:
  • Around the world in 80 days (Television program : 2021- ). Season 1.
  • Contained in (work): Masterpiece theatre (Television program)
Related works:
  • Television adaptation of (work): Verne, Jules, 1828-1905. Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Disc one. Episodes 1-3 (approximately 155 min.) -- Disc 2. Episodes 4-6 (approximately 155 min.) -- Disc 3. Episodes 7 & 8 (approximately 105 min.).
Production credits:
  • Director, Steve Barron, Brian Kelly, Charles Beeson.
Cast: David Tennant, Ibrahim Koma, Leonie Benesch, Jason Watkins, Peter Sullivan, Leon Clingman, Anthony Flanagan, David Sherwood.Summary: "London, 1872. Phileas Fogg lives a comfortable but utterly unfulfilling life in London, spending every day at his club with his friends Fortescue and Bellamy. But when he receives a hand-delivered postcard, with only the word 'COWARD' written on the back, it turns his world upside down. So much so, that the usual teasing at the hands of Bellamy provokes Fogg into undertaking a wager--to travel around the world in eighty days. Fogg is accompanied by quick-witted valet Passepartout, who has managed to convince Fogg they've never met before despite serving him his lunch at The Reform Club. And to Fogg's dismay, he realizes that headstrong journalist Abigail Fix is going with them to chronicle the journey--seeing as how her article inspired the original wager. So begins the journey around the world in eighty days--but the question is, can Fogg possibly win the wager? They find themselves in the midst of riots, on the run from the police, flying hot air balloons, crossing deserts and oceans. As they meet extraordinary people from different walks of life, and face challenges that could break them--can all three find the courage to keep going?"-- Publisher's website, viewed on March 15, 2022Summary: "London, 1872. On the day his world is turned upside down by a postcard from a lost love, Phileas Fogg ... is inspired by an article about the exciting advances in travel to take on an almost impossible wager--to circumnavigate the globe in just eighty days. As a man who has spent the last twenty years in a comfortable leather armchair at The Reform Club, he will need all the resilience he can muster and of course would be nowhere without the assistance of quick-witted Frenchman, Passepartout ... Joining them on the road will be the 'Daily telegraph' journalist who came up with the whole crazy idea in the first place--Abigail Fix ..."-- Container
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London, 1872. Phileas Fogg lives a comfortable but utterly unfulfilling life in London, spending every day at his club with his friends Fortescue and Bellamy. But when he receives a hand-delivered postcard, with only the word 'COWARD' written on the back, it turns his world upside down.

DVD ; NTSC, Region 1 ; widescreen presentation ; 5.1 surround sound ; [color]

Chiefly in English, some other languages (with English subtitles when other languages are spoken); English SDH subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing.

Subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH) in English

Title from disc labels.

David Tennant, Ibrahim Koma, Leonie Benesch, Jason Watkins, Peter Sullivan, Leon Clingman, Anthony Flanagan, David Sherwood.

Production company, creator, writer, producer, and director statements from container.

Based on the novel "Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours" by Jules Verne

Originally broadcast on the Belgian La Une network as a television series in 2021 ; later broadcast in 2022 on PBS as episodes of the television program "Masterpiece."

© Slim 80 Days/Federation Entertainment/Peu Communications/ZDF/Be-FILMS/RTBF (Télévision belge) 2021. ... Additional program materials © 2022 WGBH Educational Foundation. ... Additional disc material and packaging © 2022 PBS Distribution. Disc labels

Rating: TV-14.

"London, 1872. Phileas Fogg lives a comfortable but utterly unfulfilling life in London, spending every day at his club with his friends Fortescue and Bellamy. But when he receives a hand-delivered postcard, with only the word 'COWARD' written on the back, it turns his world upside down. So much so, that the usual teasing at the hands of Bellamy provokes Fogg into undertaking a wager--to travel around the world in eighty days. Fogg is accompanied by quick-witted valet Passepartout, who has managed to convince Fogg they've never met before despite serving him his lunch at The Reform Club. And to Fogg's dismay, he realizes that headstrong journalist Abigail Fix is going with them to chronicle the journey--seeing as how her article inspired the original wager. So begins the journey around the world in eighty days--but the question is, can Fogg possibly win the wager? They find themselves in the midst of riots, on the run from the police, flying hot air balloons, crossing deserts and oceans. As they meet extraordinary people from different walks of life, and face challenges that could break them--can all three find the courage to keep going?"-- Publisher's website, viewed on March 15, 2022

"London, 1872. On the day his world is turned upside down by a postcard from a lost love, Phileas Fogg ... is inspired by an article about the exciting advances in travel to take on an almost impossible wager--to circumnavigate the globe in just eighty days. As a man who has spent the last twenty years in a comfortable leather armchair at The Reform Club, he will need all the resilience he can muster and of course would be nowhere without the assistance of quick-witted Frenchman, Passepartout ... Joining them on the road will be the 'Daily telegraph' journalist who came up with the whole crazy idea in the first place--Abigail Fix ..."-- Container

Disc one. Episodes 1-3 (approximately 155 min.) -- Disc 2. Episodes 4-6 (approximately 155 min.) -- Disc 3. Episodes 7 & 8 (approximately 105 min.).

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Director, Steve Barron, Brian Kelly, Charles Beeson.

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