Aristocrats | |
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Genre | Drama |
Based on | Biography by Stella Tillyard |
Screenplay by | Harriet O'Carroll |
Directed by | David Caffrey |
Composer | Mark Thomas |
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Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 6 |
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Production locations | Maynooth, County Kildare, Ireland |
Editor | Neil Thomson |
Running time | 300 min. (6 episodes) |
Original release | |
Network | BBC One |
Release | 20 June 25 July 1999 | –
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Aristocrats is a 1999 television series based on the biography by Stella Tillyard of the four aristocratic Lennox sisters in 18th century England. The series consists of six episodes of 50 minutes each and was first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC, starting on 20 June 1999. It was a co-production between the United Kingdom, the United States, and Ireland.
Carton House in County Kildare in Ireland was a major location, where three of the sisters had been brought up by a fourth after the death of their father.