Aristocrats (TV series)

Aristocrats
GenreDrama
Based onBiography
by Stella Tillyard
Screenplay byHarriet O'Carroll
Directed byDavid Caffrey
ComposerMark Thomas
Country of origin
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
  • Ireland
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes6
Production
Executive producers
Production locationsMaynooth, County Kildare, Ireland
EditorNeil Thomson
Running time300 min. (6 episodes)
Original release
NetworkBBC One
Release20 June (1999-06-20) –
25 July 1999 (1999-07-25)
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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.


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