The Forsyte Saga(1967)

The Forsyte Saga is a 1967 BBC television series that adapts John Galsworthy's classic novels about the upper-middle-class Forsyte family across generations. Eric Porter stars as the driven Soames Forsyte, with Kenneth More and Nyree Dawn Porter in key roles, as the family navigates love, inheritance, and social change in turn-of-the-century England. Originally broadcast in twenty-six episodes on BBC2 from January to July 1967, the series found its true audience through Sunday repeats on BBC1 beginning in 1968, eventually drawing 18 million viewers for its finale. The Forsyte Saga became a cultural phenomenon, broadcast worldwide and notably the first BBC series sold to the Soviet Union, cementing its status as a landmark British television achievement that brought literary prestige to the small screen.