PickFlick
The Scarlet Pimpernel

The Scarlet Pimpernel

14+1999•1h 30m•7.2/10
DramaAction & Adventure

Ratings

🎬TMDb
7.2/10(4)

A series of television drama programmes loosely based on Baroness Emmuska Orczy's series of novels, set in 1793 during the French Revolution. It stars Richard E. Grant as the hero, Sir Percy Blakeney, and his eponymous alter ego. The first series also starred Elizabeth McGovern as his wife Marguerite and Martin Shaw as the Pimpernel's archrival, Paul Chauvelin. Robespierre was played by Ronan Vibert. It was filmed in the Czech Republic and scored by a Czech composer, Michal Pavlíček.

Open in PickFlick

Language

EN

Status

Ended

First Aired

January 24, 1999

Last Aired

November 1, 2000

Networks

BBC One

Where to Watch
Region US · Lang EN
US
No providers available for this region.
Seasons & Episodes
Select a season to view episodes. Reddit links may contain spoilers.
Season
The Scarlet Pimpernel aka The Scarlet Pimpernel (Book 1)
E1
The Scarlet Pimpernel aka The Scarlet Pimpernel (Book 1)
Air date: 1999-01-24
In 1793, the terror of the French Revolution is at its height, and the guillotines are busy. But a mysterious figure is staging daring rescues, and Citizen Chauvelin, the head of the Central Committee of Surveillance, is determined to discover his true identity, and uses a number of informants, including the popular actress Minette Roland.
Valentine Gautier (aka The Scarlet Pimpernel Meets Madame Guillotine)
E2
Valentine Gautier (aka The Scarlet Pimpernel Meets Madame Guillotine)
Air date: 1999-01-31
The Pimpernel is called upon to track down Helene, the daughter of the Marquis de Rochambeau. However, Chauvelin is also looking for her, and so is Gabrielle Damiens, the head of the local revolutionary regime. Sooner or later, their paths are bound to cross.
The King's Ransom (aka The Scarlet Pimpernel and the Kidnapped King)
E3
The King's Ransom (aka The Scarlet Pimpernel and the Kidnapped King)
Air date: 1999-02-07
The Dauphin is being held prisoner by the Republicans. When he is captured by a masked intruder, Robespierre orders Chauvelin to find the boy before news gets out.

Cast

Richard E. Grant

Richard E. Grant

Percy Blakeney/The Scarlet Pimpernel

Elizabeth McGovern

Elizabeth McGovern

Marguerite Blakeney

Martin Shaw

Martin Shaw

Citizen Chauvelin

Anthony Green

Anthony Green

Sir Andrew Ffoulks

Emily Bruni

Emily Bruni

Annette de Martignac

Ronan Vibert

Ronan Vibert

Robespierre

Christopher Fairbank

Christopher Fairbank

Fumier

Jamie Bamber

Jamie Bamber

Lord Anthony Dewhurst

Beth Goddard

Beth Goddard

Lady Suzanne Foulkes

Gerard Murphy

Gerard Murphy

Planchet

Emilia Fox

Emilia Fox

Minette Roland

Ron Donachie

Ron Donachie

Arturo Mazarini

Jonathan Coy

Jonathan Coy

The Prince of Wales

John McEnery

John McEnery

Sir William Wetherby

Milton Johns

Milton Johns

Fisher

Jim Sturgess

Jim Sturgess

Erik

Anton Lesser

Anton Lesser

Antoine Picard

Jim Carter

Jim Carter

General La Forge

Richard Dempsey

Richard Dempsey

Comte de Claris de Florian

Recommended

Hammer House of Horror

Hammer House of Horror

7.1
1980
TV Show

Anthology series, in which each self-contained episode featured a different kind of horror. These varied from witches, werewolves, ghosts, devil worship and voodoo, but also included non-supernatural horror themes such as cannibalism, confinement and serial killers.

Hammer House of Horror

1980
7.1
Stranger Things

Stranger Things

8.6
2016
TV Show

When a young boy vanishes, a small town uncovers a mystery involving secret experiments, terrifying supernatural forces, and one strange little girl.

Stranger Things

2016
8.6
Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

8.2
2013
TV Show

A single-camera ensemble comedy following the lives of an eclectic group of detectives in a New York precinct, including one slacker who is forced to shape up when he gets a new boss.

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

2013
8.2
Breaking Bad

Breaking Bad

8.9
2008
TV Show

Walter White, a New Mexico chemistry teacher, is diagnosed with Stage III cancer and given a prognosis of only two years left to live. He becomes filled with a sense of fearlessness and an unrelenting desire to secure his family's financial future at any cost as he enters the dangerous world of drugs and crime.

Breaking Bad

2008
8.9
Death Note

Death Note

8.6
2006
TV Show

Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects—and he’s bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil. But will Light succeed in his noble goal, or will the Death Note turn him into the very thing he fights against?

Death Note

2006
8.6
Wednesday

Wednesday

8.4
2022
TV Show

Smart, sarcastic and a little dead inside, Wednesday Addams investigates twisted mysteries while making new friends — and foes — at Nevermore Academy.

Wednesday

2022
8.4
Doctor Who

Doctor Who

7.6
2005
TV Show

The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a living—more of a hobby actually, and the Doctor's very, very good at it.

Doctor Who

2005
7.6
Prison Break

Prison Break

8.1
2005
TV Show

Due to a political conspiracy, an innocent man is sent to death row and his only hope is his brother, who makes it his mission to deliberately get himself sent to the same prison in order to break the both of them out, from the inside out.

Prison Break

2005
8.1
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

7.6
2000
TV Show

A Las Vegas team of forensic investigators are trained to solve criminal cases by scouring the crime scene, collecting irrefutable evidence and finding the missing pieces that solve the mystery.

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

2000
7.6
Two and a Half Men

Two and a Half Men

7.4
2003
TV Show

A hedonistic jingle writer's free-wheeling life comes to an abrupt halt when his brother and 10-year-old nephew move into his beach-front house.

Two and a Half Men

2003
7.4
The Flash

The Flash

7.8
2014
TV Show

After being struck by lightning, CSI investigator Barry Allen awakens from a nine-month coma to discover he has been granted the gift of super speed. Teaming up with S.T.A.R. Labs, Barry takes on the persona of The Flash, the Fastest Man Alive, to protect his city.

The Flash

2014
7.8
To the Lake

To the Lake

7.3
2019
TV Show

A grim drama that unfolds against the backdrop of a global catastrophe. An unknown new virus turns Moscow into a city of the dead. Money loses its value and those not yet infected struggle desperately for food and survival.

To the Lake

2019
7.3

Similar TV Shows

Tojima Wants to Be a Kamen Rider

Tojima Wants to Be a Kamen Rider

7.9
2025
TV Show

Even after turning 40 years old, Tojima Tanzaburo still seriously wants to be a Kamen Rider. Just when it seems like his dream may never come true, he gets caught up in a series of infamous Shocker-inspired robberies... Shibata Yokusaru, the author of Air Master and 81 Diver, presents a story about adults who love Kamen Rider a little too much, and start playing pretend... for real!

Tojima Wants to Be a Kamen Rider

2025
7.9
Lady & Liar

Lady & Liar

7.5
2015
TV Show

Set in 1930s Shanghai, Jiang Xin, an heir to a wealthy family, loses her memory in an accident. Du Xiaohan assumes her identity, while the real Jiang Xin is captured by powerful businessman Bai Zhangjie.

Lady & Liar

2015
7.5
No Image

Sword of Honour

1967
TV Show

Sword of Honour is a three-part miniseries produced as part of the anthology Theatre 625, and broadcast on BBC2, based on Evelyn Waugh's 1952–61 novels of the same name. It stars Edward Woodward as 35-year-old Englishman Guy Crouchback, who returns home from Italy at the start of WWII, determined to fight the good fight. Horrified by Nazi barbarism and emotionally shattered by a painful divorce, Crouchback eagerly accepts a post with the elite Royal Corps of Halberdiers.

Sword of Honour

1967
Super Force

Super Force

5.8
1990
TV Show

Super Force is an action-adventure TV series about a former astronaut who uses an advanced combat suit and motorcycle to fight crime in the city of Metroplex during the year 2020. Among the features of the suit were enhanced strength and armament, whereas the motorcycle had an array of James Bond-type gadgets and weapons.

Super Force

1990
5.8
The Return of Iljimae

The Return of Iljimae

4.4
2009
TV Show

The Return of Iljimae is a 2009 South Korean historical action television series, starring Jung Il-woo in the title role of Iljimae, Yoon Jin-seo, Kim Min-jong and Jung Hye-young. It aired on MBC from January 21 to April 9, 2009 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 for 24 episodes. The series is based on comic strip Iljimae, published between 1975 and 1977, by Ko Woo-yung which was based on a Chinese folklore from the Ming dynasty about a masked Robin Hood-esque character during the Joseon era. MBC bought the rights to the comic strip for their adaptation, which was to star Lee Seung-gi in the title role of Iljimae. However he pulled out and was replaced by Jung, which makes him the third Korean actor to play the hero following Jang Dong-gun and Lee Joon-gi for Iljimae.

The Return of Iljimae

2009
4.4
Little House on the Prairie

Little House on the Prairie

7.9
1974
TV Show

When the big woods of Wisconsin becomes a difficult spot for hunting, Charles Ingalls reluctantly decides to move his family, pioneering west. Their life on the farm in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, in the 1870s and 1880s is full of adventure, tragedy, and triumph. Based on the books of Laura Ingalls Wilder.

Little House on the Prairie

1974
7.9
Dexter: New Blood

Dexter: New Blood

7.9
2021
TV Show

10 years after Dexter went missing in the eye of Hurricane Laura, we find him living under an assumed name in the small town of Iron Lake, New York. Dexter may be embracing his new life, but in the wake of unexpected events in this close-knit community, his Dark Passenger beckons.

Dexter: New Blood

2021
7.9
Public Morals

Public Morals

6.8
2015
TV Show

Set in the early 1960's in New York City's Public Morals Division, where cops walk the line between morality and criminality as the temptations that come from dealing with all kinds of vice can get the better of them.

Public Morals

2015
6.8
Mercy Street

Mercy Street

6.1
2016
TV Show

Follows the lives of two volunteer nurses on opposing sides of the Civil War - New England abolitionist Mary Phinney and Confederate supporter Emma Green. Based on true stories and set in a Union hospital in the occupied Confederate city of Alexandria, viewers are taken beyond the battlefield and into the lives of Americans on the Civil War home front as they face the unprecedented challenges of one of the most turbulent times in our nation’s history.

Mercy Street

2016
6.1
Into the Flames

Into the Flames

3.0
2014
TV Show

Based on the life of Park Tae-joon, founder and honorary chairman of multinational steel-making company POSCO, this is the story of the people who battled poverty and despair after the colonial era and the Korean War with a relentless pursuit of economic innovation, and the choices they made in the name of love, loyalty and sacrifice. Park worked tirelessly to build a mill that produced steel, which became pivotal to Korea's modernization.

Into the Flames

2014
3.0
Casanova

Casanova

5.9
2015
TV Show

Exiled from his beloved Venice, Giacomo Casanova flees to Paris at the dawn of the Enlightenment in hopes of putting his reputation as a playboy behind him. But old habits die hard, and temptation is everywhere as Casanova finds a wealth of new opportunity... and trouble. Part of Amazon's fall 2015 pilot season. Currently only the pilot has been made.

Casanova

2015
5.9
The Royal

The Royal

7.6
2003
TV Show

Follows the staff and patients of a Yorkshire cottage hospital in the 60s, embroiled in tangled love lives and bitter power struggles.

The Royal

2003
7.6