Moonfleet (1984 TV series)

Moonfleet
Genre	Adventure
Based on	Moonfleet by J. Meade Falkner
Written by	George Day
Directed by	Colin Cant
Starring	David Daker
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	6
Production
Producer	Paul Stone
Running time	30 minutes
Production company	BBC
Original release
Network	BBC One
Release	22 February (1984-02-22) – 28 March 1984 (1984-03-28)

Moonfleet is a British period television drama series which aired on BBC One in 1984. It is based on the classic 1898 adventure novel Moonfleet by J. Meade Falkner, about smuggling on the Dorset coast in the eighteenth century, earlier made into a 1955 film of the same title directed by Fritz Lang.

Main cast

• Victoria Blake as Grace Maskew
• David Daker as Elzevir Block
• Adam Godley as John Trenchard
• Bernard Gallagher as Sexton Ratsey
• David Gant as Reverend Glennie
• Ewan Hooper as Magistrate Maskew
• Stewart Harwood as Thomas
• Hilary Mason as Jane Arnold

Bibliography

• Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.

External links

• Moonfleet at IMDb