The Count of Monte Cristo

George Dolenz, father of future Monkees star Mickey, leads the cast in this enormously popular series based on Alexandre Dumas’ famous story of betrayal and redemption.

Lacing Dumas’ tale with swashbuckling adventure, the series sees the wronged Frenchman fighting injustice wherever it is encountered as he traverses Europe against a backdrop of revolutionary ferment, dynastic feuding and political intrigue. The Count of Monte Cristo was an early ITC production, originally screened in 1956 and intended for a younger audience, and features appearances from several now-familiar television faces including Patrick Troughton and Stratford Johns.

This release contains every episode of the complete series.

Storyline

Edmond Dantès, a young merchant sailor, is falsely accused and convicted of treason, and incarcerated in one of the most feared prisons of nineteenth-century France: the notorious Chateau d’If. During his imprisonment, however, the Abbé Faria, a dying fellow inmate, tells Dantès of the treasure hoard that can be found on the Italian islet of Monte Cristo.

He seizes his chance and breaks out of the prison, eventually locating the island treasure and claiming it as his own; and when Edmond Dantès re-enters society, it is with a new name and a new, aristocratic identity. Thus begin the adventures of the Count of Monte Cristo…