The Love School
series not in production
Ended
Drama
Seasons | 1
Episodes | 6
avg.Runtime | 75 min
First EP | 1975-01-22
Last EP | 1975-02-26
Overview
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The Love School is a BBC television drama miniseries originally broadcast from 22 January to 26 February 1975 about the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. The series was written by John Hale, Ray Lawler, Robin Chapman, and John Prebble, and directed by Piers Haggard, John Glenister and Robert Knights. The drama was a significant influence on the subsequent 2009 series Desperate Romantics. It was also the basis of the historical novel of the same name by Hale.
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Season List
season 1 || Miniseries
Relesed on | 1975-01-22
1
The Brotherhood
1975-01-22
In 1848, social unrest abounds. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a secret group of young artists, forms in order to take on the sclerotic Royal Academy. The original three members add four friends to their ranks.
2
An Impeccable Elopement
1975-01-29
Art critic John Ruskin and his wife Effie travel to Scotland with John Everett Millais, a PRB leader. Millais falls in love with Effie and discovers that the Ruskins' marriage is in fact a sham.
3
Seeking the Bubbles
1975-02-05
Millais has married Effie after the annulment of her first marriage. William Holman Hunt and Millais both become successful artists.
4
Remember Me
1975-02-12
Dante Gabriel Rossetti's life and relationships become complicated, especially after the tragic death of his wife Lizzie.
5
Beata Beatrix
1975-02-19
Rossetti acquires a follower in William Morris but his life is troubled by drug addiction, and he becomes increasingly isolated.
6
The Artisan
1975-02-26
Pre-Raphaelitism begins to disintegrate when Morris adopts a new ideal in socialism.
CAST
charactor: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Original: Ben Kingsley
Total EP: 5
charactor: Lizzie Siddal
Original: Patricia Quinn
Total EP: 4
charactor: William Morris
Original: David Burke
Total EP: 3
charactor: John Everett Millais
Original: Peter Egan
Total EP: 3
charactor: Holman Hunt
Original: Bernard Lloyd
Total EP: 3
charactor: John Ruskin
Original: David Collings
Total EP: 3
charactor: Frederick Stephens
Original: Patrick Troughton
Total EP: 3
charactor: Edward Burne-Jones
Original: Kenneth Colley
Total EP: 3
charactor: Jane Morris
Original: Kika Markham
Total EP: 3
charactor: William Rossetti
Original: Nickolas Grace
Total EP: 3
charactor: Annie Miller
Original: Sheila White
Total EP: 3
charactor: Euphemia 'Effie' Ruskin
Original: Anne Kidd
Total EP: 3
charactor: Christina Rossetti
Original: Aviva Goldkorn
Total EP: 3
charactor: Thomas Woolner
Original: Gareth Hunt
Total EP: 2
charactor: Mrs. Rossetti
Original: Izabella Telezynska
Total EP: 2
charactor: Algernon Charles Swinburne
Original: Frank Vincent
Total EP: 2
charactor: Queen Victoria
Original: Christine Ozanne
Total EP: 2
charactor: William Millais
Original: David Wood
Total EP: 2
charactor: James Collinson
Original: John Quentin
Total EP: 1
charactor: Ford Madox Brown
Original: Malcolm Tierney
Total EP: 1
charactor: Mrs. Millais
Original: Peggy Ann Wood
Total EP: 1
charactor: Mr. Rossetti
Original: George Herbert
Total EP: 1
charactor: Ragged Child
Original: Sean Hyde
Total EP: 1
charactor: Model
Original: Elissa Derwent
Total EP: 1
charactor: Dancer
Original: Barbara Clift
Total EP: 1
charactor: Dancer
Original: Maggy Maxwell
Total EP: 1
charactor: Frederick Crawley
Original: Peter Wickham
Total EP: 1
charactor: John James Ruskin
Original: Andrew Crawford
Total EP: 1
charactor: Sir Charles Eastlake
Original: Alan Cullen
Total EP: 1
charactor: Lady Elizabeth Eastlake
Original: Jacqueline Maude
Total EP: 1
charactor: Mrs. Ruskin
Original: Ella Milne
Total EP: 1
charactor: Mr. Gray
Original: Bill Gavin
Total EP: 1
charactor: Mr. Gladstone
Original: Harold Goldblatt
Total EP: 1
charactor: Edith Waugh
Original: Jenifer Armitage
Total EP: 1
charactor: Fanny Waugh
Original: Angela Morant
Total EP: 1
charactor: Alice Waugh
Original: Anne Rutter
Total EP: 1
charactor: Mrs. Waugh
Original: Patricia Moore
Total EP: 1
charactor: Older Edith Waugh
Original: Daphne Newton
Total EP: 1
charactor: Visitor at St. Paul's Cathedral
Original: James Garbutt
Total EP: 1
charactor: Attendant at Grosvenor Gallery
Original: Jack Lambert
Total EP: 1
CREW
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