Television series set in the 1870s

Deadwood

Series Age rating: 14 Year: 2004 IMDB Rating: 8.6

The story of the early days of Deadwood, South Dakota; woven around actual historic events with most of the main characters based on real people. Deadwood starts as a gold mining camp and gradually tu...

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Warrior

Series Age rating: 17 Year: 2019 IMDB Rating: 8.4

A gritty, action-packed crime drama set during the brutal Tong Wars of San Francisco’s Chinatown in the second half of the 19th century. The series follows Ah Sahm, a martial arts prodigy who immigrat...

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Roots

Series Age rating: 12 Year: 1977 IMDB Rating: 8.4

The epic tale of celebrated Pulitzer-prize winning author Alex Haley's ancestors as portrayed in the acclaimed twelve hour mini-series Roots, was first told in his 1976 bestseller Roots: The Saga of a...

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Edward the Seventh

Series Age rating: 7 Year: 1975 IMDB Rating: 8.3

Edward the Seventh is a 1975 television drama series, made by ATV in 13 episodes. Based on the biography of Edward VII by Philip Magnus, it starred Timothy West as the elder Edward VII and Simon Gipp...

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The Forsyte Saga

Series Age rating: 10 Year: 2002 IMDB Rating: 8.1

Epic series spanning three generations of the upwardly mobile Forsyte family at the turn of the 20th century.

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Tales of Wells Fargo

Series Age rating: 12 Year: 1957 IMDB Rating: 7.9

Jim Hardie helps Wells Fargo agents battle the bad guys.

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Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill

Series Age rating: 4 Year: 1974 IMDB Rating: 7.8

Lee Remick stars as Jennie Jerome, born in the United States in 1845, who eventually became Lady Randolph Churchill, and gave birth to Sir Winston Churchill in this seven-part, seven-hour biographical...

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The Paradise

Series Age rating: 10 Year: 2012 IMDB Rating: 7.7

An intoxicating love story set in England's first department store in the 1870s. The Paradise revolves around the lives of the people who live and work in the store, each bound in their own way by the...

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The Big Valley

Series Age rating: 8 Year: 1965 IMDB Rating: 7.6

The Big Valley is an American western television series which ran on ABC from September 15, 1965, to May 19, 1969. The show stars Barbara Stanwyck, as the widow of a wealthy nineteenth century Califor...

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