Editing The Forsyte Saga (section)

====1967 serial====
{{main article|The Forsyte Saga (1967 TV series)}}
[[File:The Forsyte Saga.jpg|thumb|[[Susan Hampshire]] and [[Eric Porter]] in the 1967 television adaptation of ''[[The Forsyte Saga (1967 TV series)|The Forsyte Saga]]''.]]
A television adaptation by the BBC of ''The Forsyte Saga'', and its sequel trilogy ''[[A Modern Comedy]]'', starred [[Eric Porter]] as Soames, [[Joseph O'Conor]] as Old Jolyon, [[Susan Hampshire]] as Fleur, [[Kenneth More]] as Young Jolyon and [[Nyree Dawn Porter]] as Irene. It was produced by [[Donald Wilson (writer and producer)|Donald Wilson]] and was shown in 26 episodes on Saturday evenings between 7 January and 1 July 1967 on BBC2. It was the repeat on Sunday evenings on BBC1 starting on 8 September 1968 that secured the programme's success, with 18 million tuning in for the final episode in 1969. It was shown in the United States on public television and broadcast all over the world, and became the first British television programme to be sold to the Soviet Union.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/F/htmlF/forsytesaga/forsytesaga.htm|title=The Museum of Broadcast Communications – Encyclopedia of Television|work=museum.tv|access-date=26 July 2015}}</ref>