Seeing the house for the first time in several years prompts a recollection of Charles' first meeting with Lord Sebastian Flyte, the Marchmains' younger son, at the University of Oxford in 1922, and the rest of the narrative moves from that time forward. In the spring of 1943, disillusioned Army captain Charles Ryder is moving his company to a new Brigade headquarters at a secret location - which he discovers is Brideshead, once home to the Marchmain family and the scene of both pleasant and anguished visits for the younger Charles.

It's utterly faithful to Evelyn Waugh's novel yet it's somehow more than that, too.' Episodes Episode number In 2015, The Telegraph listed it at number 1 in its list of the greatest television adaptations, stating that ' Brideshead Revisited is television's greatest literary adaptation, bar none. In 2010, it was second in The Guardian newspaper's list of the top 50 TV dramas of all time. In 2007, the serial was listed as one of Time magazine's '100 Best TV Shows of All- Time '.

In 2000, the serial was tenth on the list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes compiled by the British Film Institute, based on a poll of industry professionals. The 11-episode serial premiered on ITV in the UK on 12 October 1981 on CBC Television in Canada on 19 October 1981 and as part of the Great Performances series on PBS in the US on 18 January 1982. Charles Sturridge declared that 95% of the dialogue was from Waugh's original text. Although the credits attribute the screenplay to John Mortimer, Mortimer's script was not used. The screenplay was written by Derek Granger (the series' producer) and others. It follows, from the 1920s to the early 1940s, the life and romances of the protagonist Charles Ryder-including his friendship with the Flytes, a family of wealthy English Catholics who live in a palatial mansion called Brideshead Castle.

The serial is an adaptation of the novel Brideshead Revisited (1945) by Evelyn Waugh.

Most of the serial was directed by Charles Sturridge, with certain sequences directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg, who handled the initial phases of the production. It was produced by Granada Television for broadcast by the ITV network. Brideshead Revisited is a 1981 British television serial starring Jeremy Irons and Anthony Andrews.

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