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March 21

Pride and Prejudice 1983 60 Minutes

I've recently been looking through all the adaptations of Pride and Prejudice and one of them I've really been struggling to find information about is the 1983 version which was shown as an episode of the tv series 60 Minutes, broadcast on 5 December 1983 and it starred Peter Sallis and Patsy Rowlands. So does anyone know any information about it. Also has this 1983 version ever been released on DVD by itself or on any 60 Minutes DVD's. If it hasn't been released on DVD is it available to watch online. Matthew John Drummond (talk) 17:03, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Are you sure you have the program name correct? 60 Minutes is a news magazine show, not a drama. I find it incredibly hard to believe that 60 Minutes would ever produce such an episode.--User:Khajidha (talk) (contributions) 21:05, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I see that he was in a stage production of P&P at that time. Could this simply be some sort of news piece on the play?--User:Khajidha (talk) (contributions) 21:11, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

IMDb doesn't have entries for individual segments of an episode. Clarityfiend (talk) 22:34, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It isn't supposed to, true. But that doesn't mean that some well-meaning idiot won't add such a thing.--User:Khajidha (talk) (contributions) 23:20, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Here is a link; 5 December 1983 was the opening night in the Ashcroft Theatre, Croydon. ‑‑Lambiam 23:41, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The episode from 1983 is shown on IMDB. Matthew John Drummond (talk) 21:56, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That has now been deleted. Clarityfiend (talk) 11:13, 22 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I thought obviously OP intended some other 60 Minutes in some other anglophone country where it's a rotating entertainment series, but everything in 60 Minutes (disambiguation) is news. —Tamfang (talk) 23:55, 24 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

IMDb doesn't show any such credit for either person, nor did I expect it to. 60 Minutes? Seriously? That's like Mike Wallace auditioning for The Gong Show. It's vandalism. Clarityfiend (talk) 21:50, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Interestingly, IMDb shows two entries for a 60 Minutes episode for that date: Pride and Prejudice and non-PaP. I have reported the issue to IMDb. Clarityfiend (talk) 22:23, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Does that mean that Pride and Prejudice 1983 is ment to be an episode of different tv series not 60 Minutes. Matthew John Drummond (talk) 22:45, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It could be a different series. It could be simple vandalism. Or it could be what I suggested above, a 60 Minutes report about the play. We don't know. What we can assume is that it is in some way erroneous. 60 Minutes is not a drama series, it is a news magazine.--User:Khajidha (talk) (contributions) 22:52, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The obvious assumption would be that it was a report about the production. 60 Minutes often had reports about cultural events. They wouldn't actually present the production itself. If nothing else, it would be hard to cram the entire story into 60 minutes minus commercials. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 23:29, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It's worth pointing out that Dec 5, 1983 was a Monday. 60 Minutes is always on Sundays, far as I know. Could it be there is an unrelated UK program called 60 Minutes? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 23:43, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

60 Minutes (disambiguation) only lists news programs. Clarityfiend (talk) 23:48, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Also, the IMDb entry for PaP displays the 60 Minutes stopwatch. Clarityfiend (talk) 23:57, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

There was indeed such a UK programme [sic, it being British], Sixty Minutes (British TV programme), which is a more likely candidate given that the production mentioned by Khajidha and linked by Lambiam was in Britain by a then-prominent British theatre company. It too was a news magazine programme, and ran during 1983 and 1984 (so the dates match), replacing the earlier and better-known Nationwide, and being superceded by the Six O'clock News.

It's quite plausible that this programme carried a report on the production; it's unlikely that each weekday broadcast had a formal title, but perhaps the P&P title was added by a contributor to IMDb as an additional identifier. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 94.2.64.108 (talk) 00:37, 22 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The IMDb page has now been deleted, but when it was up it mentioned Don Hewitt, so it must have been for the CBS news magazine 60 Minutes. If the IMDb contributor intended to mark attention given by the BBC1 programme Sixty Minutes to the theatrical production of David Pownall's dramatization, they were both quite confusing and quite confused. ‑‑Lambiam 12:26, 22 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

"Confusion will be my epitaph." {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 94.2.64.108 (talk) 22:31, 22 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]