@narnian78 

I haven't seen those in a while, but I remember enjoying them. I think the second was a combination of three books, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, and Anne of Windy Poplars.

I also remember watching Anne of Green Gables: The Animated Series when I was kid on PBS. I think there was also a series called the Road to Avonlea which I haven't seen.

@jasmine_tarkheena 

The second series was Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel and I believe it was adapted from the books that you mentioned.  I would recommend all of the series, although I only purchased the first three. They aren’t that expensive to buy if you really like them. It’s so enjoyable watching the programs again even though I have seen them multiple times. The acting is so excellent!  🙂

I caved and we started watching season 4 of The Fugitive before finishing Mannix. I really enjoy the black and white shows, so I wasn't expecting to like the color season that well...but I have been pleasantly surprised by it. We've watching just over half of the season. One of the nice things about it being the only season in color is no episode endings are from the previous seasons.  

SnowAngel

I am almost finished with the third series of Anne of Green Gables.  Although I like the first two series better it is quite good drama. My set doesn’t have anything else from the series that followed except for a few clips in the bonus features.  So I can’t honestly say what the other programs are like, although they do seem kind of interesting. It’s kind of unfortunate that it didn’t turn into a long running television series. But if it would it probably will become something like the Little House on the Prairie television show, which was a very loose adaptation of the books.  I can’t say I dislike Little House since the TV series had some fine acting, although it wasn’t always accurate to the books. It would have been nice if more of the stories of Anne of Green Gables would have come to the screen.

I wonder if the Anne of Green Gables books could be made into a TV series. I'm not saying it would happen but it's a thought. I know that Netflix tried to do that with Anne With An E but it didn't turn out so well. So if they could do a TV series (one that follows the books closely), it would be something! 

@jasmine_tarkheena 

It would be a great idea if a series longer than a miniseries could be created.  But I don’t know if anyone could raise the money for it or if a really good actress could be found to play Anne. It would be hard to find someone as good as Megan Follows.  But maybe someday another great series will be created. It happened many times with movies and television shows based on Charles Dickens’ books. Perhaps the same thing could be done with Anne of Green Gables. 🙂

I was rewatching Voyagers! and I was pleased with the show’s accuracy in depicting historical events.  It is quite a good series although it lasted only twenty episodes. I always liked the promotion for libraries at the end of each episode. The show was made in the 1980’s, and it is still interesting to watch over forty years laters later. In fact there is a new DVD set of the series available, which shows that it still appeals to a modern audience. Other science fiction has featured time travel, but this series was probably the most realistic since the characters are like real people. 🙂

I have been rewatching the DVD's of BBC Dickens television series which were made in the 1970's and '80's. I watched the first half of Dombey and Son tonight.  They are quite accurate to the books, although they were made on a small budget. The acting is quite good although the production is somewhat stagey.  I find them very enjoyable since they are old fashioned and have a certain charm about them.   🙂

Í remember being introduced to a lot of classics, via BBC dramas (shown in NZ).  Very well done. Dickens, Bronte, possibly Austen. (also read a lot of Dickens and Austen at school and university - English major)

The standard of performance and production that BBC presented set a high bar for any others.  I'm grateful for them.

@coracle 

I was an English major in college and I read Dickens and other British authors for my courses. In the 1970’s and ‘80’s many of the adaptations were shown on Masterpiece Theatre on public television, and about twenty five years later they were released on DVD. Masterpiece Theatre was the title of the PBS series which offered the best of British television here in the U. S.  I think it was excellent television who people who loved old fashioned dramas. 🙂

We finished The Fugitive on Sunday night, it had a pretty good finale. Although I am kind of sad it's over, I was really enjoying it. I think we'll watch season eight of Mannix next and then maybe do some rewatching. The siblings have been watching a few episodes of The High Chaparral, maybe we'll rewatch season one.

SnowAngel

The Dickens series haven’t been broadcast on PBS in at least a decade. The Masterpiece series, which used to be called Masterpiece Theatre, doesn’t currently show them. They still are available on DVD so apparently people are still buying them.  It would be interesting to see some new programs and how they interpret the novels.  But unfortunately the classics aren’t as popular as they once were. If Narnia does get made into a new series other classic novels may become popular again.  People’s tastes will change with the times.

One of the saddest scenes in a Dickens novel was the one In which the father asks his own daughter to take bodies from the Thames River in London. Unfortunately it was how some people made their living during a very dark, depressing time.  This is at the beginning of Our Mutual Friend.  The scene was effectively done in the 1998 drama, which was one of the best adaptations of Dickens’ stories for television. I watched it again last night and I thought after seeing it several times through the years that it was very well done. Dickens’ novels are an experience of pathos for the reader. 

Here is more information about this fine miniseries:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0144727/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk

I have been rewatching Dickens of London, the miniseries about Dickens’ life. On the whole the series is quite good with Roy Doltrice playing the older Dickens and his father.  The series was made in 1976 on a small budget, but it somehow manages to capture the time of Victorian England quite faithfully. Some parts of it are rather conjectural such as the episode where Dickens meets Edgar Allan Poe.  That story is a bit dark and creepy and I am not sure if it actually happened. But most of the series is fairly close to Dickens’ life.

@narnian78 I remember a series from then.

I wonder if this the one where Charles is stuck a few chapters into The Pickwick Papers, and his younger brother comes in, whom he nicknames 'Sancho Panza'. Suddenly it dawns on Charles that a character like that is just what he needs, and he creates Sam Weller. I loved it, and it was probably the main reason that I decided to read the book; the first chapter or so were a bit stodgy!