Six Wives of Henry VIII [4 Discs]

Keith Michell's Emmy-winning performance highlights this six-part historical drama tracing the monarch's half-dozen marriages and attempts to secure a male heir. The BBC import first ran in the U.S. on CBS in the summer of 1971, and was reshown on PBS's 'Masterpiece Theatre' the following year with about 10 minutes of new footage in each episode. Through the course of six chapters, Henry ages from a scant 18, when he becomes king, to a dissipated, dying man of 56.