A Tale of Two Cities

Season 1

Overview

A pair of lookalikes, one a former French aristocrat and the other an alcoholic English lawyer, fall in love with the same woman amongst the turmoil of the French Revolution.

Episodes

1. Part 1

May 21, 1989

95 min

The similarity of a dissolute English lawyer to an exile from revolutionary France proves useful.

2. Part 2

May 22, 1989

95 min

To save Charles from the guillotine, Carton proposes a desperate measure.

Jean-Pierre Aumont

Alexandre Manette

Serena Gordon

Lucie Manette (later Darnay)

Xavier Deluc

Charles Darnay

James Wilby

Sydney Carton

John Mills

Jarvis Lorry

Gérard Klein

Ernest Defarge

Kathy Kriegel

Thérèse Defarge

Anna Massey

Miss Pross

Alfred Lynch

Jerry Cruncher

Jonathan Adams

C. J. Stryver

Karl Johnson

Solomon Pross/'John Barsad'