cult of poldark

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Originally shown on BBC Four, this documentary reviews the extraordinary popularity of the BBC dramatisation of Winston Graham's Poldark saga.

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@maryen65 Жыл бұрын

I realy loved the old Poldark series. I named my daughter Demelza ❤

@pdetestable Жыл бұрын

Fantastic!!

@mcworster Ай бұрын

I named mine Verity ❤️

@shirleylane131 10 жыл бұрын

There will never be another series that captures such magic. Love Robins blogs.......a wonderful gorgeous man!!!

@josemantorres 9 ай бұрын

Thank you Robin Ellis for always being Captain Poldark. With Demelza. Unique. Many more successes. From Lima Peru. Blessings

@janeglenn6759 2 жыл бұрын

As a teenager I was enchanted by eighteenth century Cornwall with the handsome, manly Ross and the fair and fragile Elizabeth. I still am!

@TomRivieremusic 5 жыл бұрын

Truly a masterpiece of acting and actors. I watch it every year now. Unfortunately, I just discovered this series just 2 years ago. In the USA we don't have so many classic British programs. I'm so glad I have a chance to see this in my lifetime. The British have a great history of culture.

@debbierichens3910 2 жыл бұрын

My mum and I used to be glued to the tv on Sunday nights to watch Poldark in 1975. I have tried but just cannot take to the new version. For starters, Angharad Rees’ portrayal of Demelza was so full of charm as well as having that stunning red hair. Jill Townsend was amazing too, at putting on an English accent - I never knew when I first watched it in the 1970s that she was American. With the new series, I found it difficult to recognise each character even once they’d been introduced. I’ve just started watching the original again as I have it on DVD. Excellent.

@cynthiahawkins2389 3 жыл бұрын

My fave in the series in terms of what actors call 'character development"? Demelza, hands down. She starts out as this ragamuffin, dressed as a boy, who tries to pick Ross's pocket at the market..and the story of her connection with Ross Poldark begins and gains steam from there. Just wonderful. Sorry to hear - we lost Miss Rees some years ago.

@darrylwiggins1156 3 жыл бұрын

When i first tuned in to this show it was out of boredom.on a lark.when i saw the title of it i thought it was a place.a town.then i watched.i swear this was the best adventure and drama a 16teen year old could have asked for.i never missed a episode and was pleased to see mr.ellis in the excellent remake.

@JohnSmith-qm6xx 2 жыл бұрын

I HAVE THE COMPLETE SERIES ON VIDEO. WATCH IT AT LEAST TWICE A YEAR..NEVER GET FED UP WITH IT..BRILLIANT!!

@user-ll8mt4so4l 5 ай бұрын

Lots cut from dvds

@nahnni 9 жыл бұрын

This was a fabulous watch. Thank you for uploading!

@luciatilyard2827 10 жыл бұрын

I think the 1970's were when television really reached its peak. Wouldn't it be fantastic if they managed to do as well again?

@stewartshreenan8256 Ай бұрын

I watched it when I was 16. I've just bought myself the box set. Absolutely love it. Robin Ellis was born to play Ross. That's for sure. X🎉

@happymusic1832 9 жыл бұрын

Wonderful series! Robin Ellis....one of the sexiest men on earth!

@paulaward3976 Жыл бұрын

I found a scruffy, dirty little kitten that I cleaned up and brought into my home. She grew up to be a beautiful Siamese. I named her "Demelza" after the character since they both had the same sort of metamorphosis.

@tamarabedic9601 3 ай бұрын

Thank you for taking her in!

@blmetal65 9 жыл бұрын

Among the best & memorable British TV series

@cehlattin 3 жыл бұрын

Ralph Bates is the one and only George Warleggan

@Blue-Eyes2525 4 жыл бұрын

My favourite series

@kath-phlox 9 жыл бұрын

The new series is very good, but in all honesty it does not compare to the original with Robin Ellis. There are no details like there was in the original.. that's missing.

@silviahannak3213 3 жыл бұрын

Good to know. Anyways. It is great, fantastic same like Austen, Bronte, Shakespeare and so many other famous british writers. But hey, there are less to no Darcys and more Willoughbys. ;-P

@stewartshreenan8256 Ай бұрын

read all the novels of Poldark too. Was enchanted. Sorry to hear of Angharred's passing. All great actors. X😊

@KerryJ 10 жыл бұрын

One of my first TV crushes was Robin Ellis as Ross Poldark. They shot some of it in Southern NH and I was so disappointed that my dad - who did some security on the site - wouldn't get me his autograph. And Mr Darcy - you're a weenie next to Ross Poldark!

@annenyman678 5 жыл бұрын

Kerry J they shot some of it in New Hampshire?

@HerAeolianHarp 4 жыл бұрын

Robin Ellis was the best Poldark though I love the new series, too.

@Highlandcoffee1 9 жыл бұрын

I wondered why Richard Morant who was terrific in series 1 ( and was also a fab 'Flashman' in a BBC adaptation of Tom Brown's Schooldays) didnt continue his role as Dr Enys in series 2 Now I know !!! Dont usually like period drama but I enjoyed Poldark - as a teenager I watched it with my mum on Sunday nights - and now have the DVD's to watch whenever I wish Great cast - sadly some of the actors are no longer with us - gorgeous scenery and a wonderful story

@DiscerningWon 9 жыл бұрын

Highlandcoffee1 There was a row about a scene that Robin and Richard didn't like--and their take on it was true to Winston Graham's original novel. Richard decided not to return--apparently in part because that conflict with the director left a bad taste in is mouth. Robin writes about this in his memoir, Making Poldark.

@paulpresto7346 2 жыл бұрын

Mom and I watched this and it was a great time - miss u Ma!

@luciatilyard2827 10 жыл бұрын

Ah yes, I remember Poldark and Demelza, and even saw Robin Ellis doing narrations at a church in Ipswich!

@bt9124 4 жыл бұрын

where he spent the earliest part of his life; he has such a natural and loyal sense of history

@nicolettapompei5547 4 жыл бұрын

My Ross ❤

@rosaalves5951 3 жыл бұрын

Robin Ellis, divino, antes e agora também!

@ecureuil85 9 жыл бұрын

I'm going to start watching this alongside the current remake. Interested to see how they compare.

@user-ll8mt4so4l 5 ай бұрын

They don't

@silviahannak3213 3 жыл бұрын

Season 6 please ! Would be great. Or something about the kids of all of them. Best thing ever: George has left the building and i can hear Aunt Agatha laughing. Or at least her 102 year old ghost making a sound with her lips. Or shaking her bones.

@mrpurser6378 9 жыл бұрын

Brilliant British Drama & Soundtrack, i was in love with Verity [Norma Streader] when i was young, she was my type alright.

@jennyparsons1343 Жыл бұрын

I miss anharod rees

@babi7808 2 жыл бұрын

The Cult of Sunday Onedin line, please

@teelasalada 3 жыл бұрын

This was fun! Just finished the new series and never watched this one. But this was fun to watch. Some of the actors in the old series remind me of the newer one too. Ross, Osborne, and Dwight 1. “I’m not the same man that went away” 😂

@michellemckay7336 9 жыл бұрын

In hindsight its very similar to the Charles and Diana and Camilla love triangle! I loved this series as a ten year old in New Zealand. I was so sad to hear Angharad Rees died in 2012.

@fomalhauto 4 жыл бұрын

not really the only similarity is just a love triangle Camilla was Prince Charles' true love that he ended up being married Charles never really love Diana and they were married for 15 years and had two children Charles married Camilla after Diana died Diana died young Camilla was a commoner Diana was upper class In the book and two series Elizabeth was an idealized love Demelza was the true love Elizabeth died young Demelza was a commoner Elizabeth was upper class Ross stayed married to the same woman - Demelza in the book, Ross and Demelza was married for over 30 years and five children

@miisu111 Жыл бұрын

Sad to hear about her😢

@mariateresa4548 7 жыл бұрын

me enamoré de ti ROBIN ELLIS. en ROS POLDARK

@JESUS0710 4 жыл бұрын

Hermosa serie hojala y se hubiera publicado la tercera temporada

@jennyparsons1343 Жыл бұрын

I love poldark

@hammadoolass 3 жыл бұрын

Aaaah --- always wondered why Richard Morant didn't do series 2. I only watched Poldark to see Richard Morant.

@karlatova6348 4 жыл бұрын

Hard and strong film. The life on the land ,also on the water .They had to know swiming and ride on the horse. The main heroe is a man and his second pair is very young with love The love brings the strengs to live.

@niculesculiana6225 5 жыл бұрын

imi doresc sa fie reluat full serialul poldark 1975-1977, de TVR1

@crazydog3307 Жыл бұрын

hehe sounds like quite an interesting fellow XD ill have to watch the series sometime

@christophergraves6725 7 ай бұрын

I love the original series dramatizing the Poldark novels. There are two comments in this video that need to be corrected. The first is the comment that is wrongly conceived is that Robin Ellis as Poldark appears effeminate because he has long hair. The way that Robin and the other male characters had their hair done for their parts in the 1970's series was exactly the way that men wore their hair in the late 18th Century. That comment is incredibly anachronistic. One of the big problems with the most recent series is that Aidan Turner and the other actors portraying men at the time don't look like they are of their social class in the late 18th Century. Aidan's hair is long but is not long enough in the back and then tied up in a bow. The other male characters who have shorter hair and long sideburns look like they are in the Regency Period. The second issue in the video that was raised that I disagree with was articulated by Robin Ellis himself. He envisioned Ross Poldark as a radical. He was not. In the novels, Ross reads with approval Edmund Burke's critique of the French Revolution. Ross was horrified by the radical nature of the French Revolution and opposed taking reforms as far as they did, past reasonable and measured reforms to a top-to-bottom re-structuring of French society. Rather, Ross sought the best for all whom he encountered. He was a tender-hearted man with a sense of justice and fairness. He hated to see strong, honorable men and their families taken advantage of by the rising middle class and looked for ways to make sure those in the working class received enough to survive and even thrive on. Ross' concern for the working class, especially those who worked for him, was based more a traditional sense of Noblesse Oblige with moderate reforms than a wholesale overthrowing of the social and economic system. Poldark was no radical egalitarian. He respected and admired Americans fighting for their liberty and their dignity even though he fought against them, but strongly opposed the radicalism of the French Revolution. Socially, the American Revolution never challenged traditional religious or moral order. On his political and social views, Ross hit the same balance as did Edmund Burke, the founder of conservatism in the English speaking world.

@Evie-be5et 11 күн бұрын

@christophergraves6725 .... Ross made an angry comment, in a scene, powered from seeing horrible the poverty in his own backyard, disparaging William Wilberforce. His criticism being that the latter was giving all attention to fighting against the slave trade which should have been directed towards his own kin (my words of how I remember the comment). I let Ross know somebody needed to fight that fight, just as somebody was needed to be courageous to fight this fight !

@e.h.2265 13 күн бұрын

We loved to watch Poldark in Germany.

@merlinstwin 9 жыл бұрын

I admit it. I swooned.

@kurisucosmo7954 9 жыл бұрын

They mentioned that Demelza's character in the series was different from the book. Does anyone know in what way? I just wanna know if this newer Poldark is actually more true to the books in terms of Demelza's character. Either way, Demelza in the original series was AWESOME, and I can't really imagine Demelza any other way.

@klaxi100 7 жыл бұрын

Kristine Silmaro The new Poldark is like 99% of the book while the old one is like 65% especially in serious cases. Like Ross marrying Demelza because she was pregnant. Never that. He decided to marry her the second day he first slept with her. Or burning down Trentwith, how can?. When it's the house Geoffrey-Charles inherits for future Poldark generation. Or Aunt Agatha living elsewhere but Trentwith. Never true. The book are so rich as per scripts that new Series Writer Debbie said, no need to change much. Demelza in the book was as dark as Ross and quite tall.

@kurisucosmo7954 7 жыл бұрын

seyi klaxi So I went and read all 12 books, so yeah I know about all this. But while it's true the book is rich, and the newer series is more true to it...... I still really love the older series. In some ways, more than the new one. Just because Ross and Demelza are different in the older one doesn't mean they're characters are bad. I loved seeing a more fiery Demelza, and to me the fact that Ross would only marry Demelza when he found out she was pregnant is more believable. Because I'm sure he's slept with other women besides her, and didn't feel the inclination to marry them. But for some reason, he married Demelza even though he didn't particularly love her at the time?? Plus, even though the newer series is more true to book, it didn't feel as rich because I could barely feel the passing of time like I could in the older one. There aren't as many of the "smaller moments" like there were in the older one where I felt I could get to know the characters better. And I don't know, I just feel like the way dramas are cut and edited today are just too choppy, and they seem to like adding in a lot of montage scenes of people looking out into the distance for no real reason. Don't get me wrong, I really enjoy the new series. I think Aiden and Eleanor do a great job of portraying Ross and Demelza. But the older Ross and Demelza were just as good, and I felt like the series just flowed better, even if it deviated from the books.

@christophergraves6725 7 ай бұрын

@@klaxi100 I think most of the changes made in the original series improved the story such as Ross marrying Demelza out of a sense of responsibility for her and then coming to love her over time. The choice he was forced to make between her and Elizabeth put an edge on how things unfolded. It was much more dramatic and made more sense than the way that Ross came to marry Demelza in the novel. They did leave out a lot of scenes, however, that would have enhanced the TV series. As Winston Graham complained, the TV series moved too quickly. But the later series was much worse at the rapidity in which the story unfolded. I felt rushed through the sequences in the later version. I consider Jack Pullman's (and others')teleplay to be much better than what we saw from Debbie Horsfield. She did not play up the economic, class, and religious conflicts as much as what we saw in the original series. The 70's version was much more raw and visceral as were the actors' portrayals of their characters who seemed to step right from the 18th Century including the way that they were dressed and had their hair fixed. The more recent version's male characters did not look like they were in the late 18th Century. They were dressed and had hair styles more like the Regency Period. You are right that Demelza looked different in the novels as did Caroline (she was the red head). Demelza though had black hair but only a light olive complexion. Ross was fair and blue-eyed in the novels with dark brown hair with copper highlights. He was not short, stocky and dark like Aidan. Robin Ellis looks exactly like Ross is pictured in the novels as well as conveying a more provocative and independent character than Aidan. Angharad Rees' Demelza acted and looked more the part of the fiery and determined young woman that matched Ross' character as the novels describe than the withdrawn, quiet Eleanor Tomlinson. By the way, Angharad Rees was tall. She just looks short when standing next to Robin Ellis. Aidan is too short and dark to play Ross and too tame.

@mcworster Ай бұрын

I’m going to be unpopular but I don’t think any of the screen Demelzas has captured book Demelza. I really wish they had kept to the physical description that Winston Graham so emphatically mentioned. Dark haired and dark eyed. Also screen Demelzas shouts and nags too much ! Book Demelza is too wise and intuitive to ever be that loud and annoying.

@brownies4you 10 жыл бұрын

What did the narrator say at 3:30....(The Forsyte Saga and)....."The Need in Line" from the 1970s?

@mcworster 10 жыл бұрын

The Onedin Line which was another popular period drama series.

@mrwatcherofolde9714 9 жыл бұрын

Forty years ago---wow- seems like just a few..

@brunothor2696 9 жыл бұрын

I like them all.

@astorgenevieve3993 7 ай бұрын

Il y a un acteur qui joue dans les deux série il me semble, celui qui joue le juge dans Poldark deuxième version avec Aidan Turner. Mais c'est la version avec Aidan et Eléanor et tout le casting que je trouve formidable. C'est la deuxième version que je préfère mais c'est celle que j'ai vu en premier et en entier.

@irmamazor1102 2 ай бұрын

😂מעבר לסידרה המצויינת 'פולדארק',הסיבה האמיתית שצפיתי בסידרה היה רובין אליס יפה התואר,הייתי מאוהבת בו עד כלות.❤

@suehurst6544 9 жыл бұрын

I loved Robin Ellis, named my son Robin after him. Have never been forgiven -lol.

@suehurst6544 9 жыл бұрын

Evidently he's the Judge in this new series. I will watch this new series but in my opinion it can never beat the original Ross and Demelza.

@JJTownley_Classical-Composer 9 жыл бұрын

Robin has a blog and you can write and tell him how much you enjoyed Poldark. He answers every entry. A very gracious gentleman.

@suehurst6544 9 жыл бұрын

Really, how wonderful, as you say 'a very gracious gentleman'. Not many of them around. Thank you for that.

@merlinstwin 9 жыл бұрын

J Joe Townley And an accomplished cook as well!

@suehurst6544 9 жыл бұрын

Yes he is, wish I could go on one of his courses in France, they seem so informal and laid back.

@MilagroEncisoBerdejo 7 күн бұрын

El documental en español

@peaceandlove544 9 жыл бұрын

The original series is much better than the new version regardless of the great cinematography of the 2015 version, the acting, the cast and the script of the original series is top of the line and the new version Its ok but not very good specially if you saw the original version or read the books. The New main actor is too young and rough and neurotic for me.

@JuneJarka Жыл бұрын

Agreed.

@johnrand3713 2 ай бұрын

Couldn't disagree more!

@vittoriasimonella1440 3 жыл бұрын

Perché non lo trasmettete in italiano??

@DRush76 7 жыл бұрын

It's not a bad documentary, but I think this could have been a little bit more in-depth on the series. As for the 1996 TV movie, I thought it was pretty good.

@vittoriasimonella1440 4 жыл бұрын

Perché non lo trasmettete in italiano?

@vittoriasimonella1440 3 жыл бұрын

Non rispondete mai