The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel

The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel is a British television series based on the 1905 adventure novel of the same name by Baroness Emmuska Orczy. The series was created by writer Michael Hogan and produced by the Towers of London for Incorporated Television Programmes. It was first screened in Britain in 1955 to 1956 in an eighteen episode run beginning on 28 September 1955. It was one of the first drama series shown on the fledging network, which had only begun transmission in London the week before.
Guest stars.
Many guest stars appeared in other ITC series, BBC series and films:
Episode list.
Dates are for the first broadcast on Independent Television in London (Associated-Rediffusion), Midlands and Northern.
Home media.
Alpha Home Entertainment released Volume 1 of "The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel" on DVD in 2006. Volume 2 was released in 2007. Each volume contains four episodes from the television series. The cover art used on these releases, however, erroneously used photos of Marius Goring in his character as Conductor 71 from his 1946 film "A Matter of Life and Death".
Network (UK) released the entire 18 episode series on a three disc DVD set on 30 July 2012 with some extras included: a behind the scenes photo gallery.