The Moonstone (miniseries)
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| Genre | Drama |
| Based on | The Moonstone novel by Wilkie Collins |
| Written by | Rachael Flowerday Sasha Hails |
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| Composer(s) | Patrick Neil Doyle |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 5 |
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| Producer(s) | Joanna Hanley |
| Cinematography | Stephen Murphy |
| Running time | 45 minutes |
| Production company(s) | King Bert Productions |
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| Original network | BBC |
| Original release | 31 October – 4 November 2016 |
| External links | |
| BBC website | |
The Moonstone is a daytime drama series produced by King Bert Productions for BBC 1 Daytime. It is an adaptation of the Wilkie Collins novel described by T.S. Eliot as the first and greatest of English detective novels. It stars Joshua Silver and John Thomson.
Rachel Verinder, a young English woman, inherits a large Indian diamond on her eighteenth birthday. It is a legacy from her uncle, a corrupt British army officer who served in India. The diamond is of great religious significance as well as being extremely valuable, and three Hindu priests have dedicated their lives to recovering it. Rachel's eighteenth birthday is celebrated with a large party, at which the guests include her cousin Franklin Blake. She wears the Moonstone on her dress that evening for all to see, including some Indian jugglers who have called at the house. Later that night, the diamond is stolen from Rachel's bedroom, and a period of turmoil, unhappiness, misunderstandings and ill-luck ensues in a complex plot to explain the theft, identify the thief, trace the stone and recover it.
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