TV series

The Buccaneers

1995 · 1 season

A polished, slow costume drama of manners where young women navigate chilly drawing rooms and disappointing suitors.

Created by: Philip Saville
Genres: Drama
Starring: Carla Gugino, Mira Sorvino, Alison Elliott

Tagline: Innocent conquerors.
Overview: Because of their "new money" background, four American girls have difficulty breaking into the upper-crust society of New York. Laura Testvalley, the governess of one of the girls, suggests a London season and thus the young women set sail for England and the unsuspecting English aristocracy. In England, all the girls soon find eligible husbands and the youngest girl, Nan, seems to land the best husband of them all: the handsome and very wealthy Julius, Duke of Trevennick. The girls soon discover that English upper-class men are not at all what they expected and hoped for.

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Created by: Philip Saville
Genres: Drama
Starring: Carla Gugino, Mira Sorvino, Alison Elliott

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Tone
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: class
identity
love
family
betrayal
Places: big city
single country house
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: serialised
Content intensity: Gore none
Language none
Violence none
Sex mild

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Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	1
Horror	0
Humour	3
Realism	7
Romance	6
Tension	3
Darkness	4
Complexity	5
Emotional weight	5

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Genres: drama
Created by: Philip Saville
Written by: Maggie Wadey
Starring: Carla Gugino, Mira Sorvino, Alison Elliott, Rya Kihlstedt, Dinsdale Landen, Cherie Lunghi, Greg Wise, James Frain
Music: Colin Towns
Cinematography: Remi Adefarasin
Length: 1 seasons, 5 episodes, 55 min each
Network: BBC One
Languages: English

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