The Glittering Prizes

The Glittering Prizes

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Drama

The Glittering Prizes is a British television drama about the changing lives of a group of Cambridge students, starting in 1952 and following them through to middle age in the 1970s. It was first broadcast on BBC2 in 1976.

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Tom Conti
Tom Conti
Barbara Kellerman
Barbara Kellerman
Nigel Havers
Nigel Havers
Roger Hammond
Roger Hammond
Roger Hammond
Roger Hammond
Ronald Brathwaite
Tim Pigott-Smith
Tim Pigott-Smith
Tim Dent

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First air dateJan 21 1976

Total Episodes6

Total Seasons1

Official siteVisit here

LanguageEnglish

Production companiesBBC

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