How Green Was My Valley
GenreDrama adaptation
Based onnovel by Richard Llewellyn
Written byElaine Morgan
Directed byRonald Wilson
StarringStanley Baker
Siân Phillips
Nerys Hughes
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes6
Production
ProducerMartin Lisemore
Camera setupmulti-camera video/location film
Running time50 mins. (approx.)
Production companyBBC/20th Century Fox Television
Original release
NetworkBBC 2
Release29 December 1975 (1975-12-29) –
2 February 1976 (1976-02-02)

How Green Was My Valley is a BBC Television serial based on the novel by Richard Llewellyn, and features one of the last performances by Stanley Baker. It was first shown in the UK from 29 December 1975 in six weekly parts. Producer Martin Lisemore also cast Siân Phillips in his next production, I Claudius (1976). Phillips won a BAFTA award for best actress in 1976 for her portrayal of Beth Morgan.[1] The series was co-produced by 20th Century Fox as they owned the rights to the novel and had produced the 1941 film.[2]

Plot synopsis

Set in South Wales during the reign of Queen Victoria, the story of the Morgans, a coal-mining family, is told. The story centres around Huw, the youngest boy, whose academic ability enables him to consider a future away from the mines in which his father and five brothers toil. Huw has a life-changing experience after his father is trapped in a mine cave-in.

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