Name: Brideshead Revisited
Released: 1981-10-12T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Jeremy Irons, Claire Bloom, Roger Milner

Available on ITVX

A young painter becomes involved with an eccentric aristocratic family in this dramatisation of the Evelyn Waugh novel. Charles Ryder, portrayed by Jeremy Irons, meets Sebastian Flyte (Anthony Andrews) at Oxford, and though they are from very different levels of society, they develop a bond.

Drama · 1981 · 1 hr 40 min

Starring Jeremy Irons , Claire Bloom , Roger Milner

Director Charles Sturridge , Michael Lindsay-Hogg

EPISODE 1

Et in Arcadia Ego

Army Capt. Charles Ryder (Jeremy Irons) recalls former times at his new billet, Brideshead Castle.

1 hr 39 min · 12 Oct 1981
EPISODE 2

Home and Abroad

Sebastian (Anthony Andrews) invites Charles to Brideshead for the summer, where he meets other family members.

51 min · 20 Oct 1981
EPISODE 3

The Bleak Light of Day

When Sebastian returns to school bent on his own destruction, his mother asks an Oxford don to watch over him.

53 min · 27 Oct 1981
EPISODE 4

Sebastian Against the World

Visiting Brideshead, Charles finds alienated Sebastian drunk in his room.

53 min · 3 Nov 1981
EPISODE 5

A Blow Upon a Bruise

New Year at Brideshead furthers Sebastian's descent in the eyes of his family, and Charles angers the Marchmains when he attempts to help.

50 min · 10 Nov 1981
EPISODE 6

Julia

Rex Mottram visits Charles in Paris with news of the Marchmains.

50 min · 1 Jan 1981