Balladeer’s Blog’s recurring feature Forgotten Television returns with this look at four television presentations of works by the Russian writer Anton Chekhov.
UNCLE VANYA (February 10th, 1967) – On this date American public television aired the 1963 theatrically released film version of Anton Chekhov’s classic play. In late 1800s Russia, an elderly scholar and his young wife Yelena arrive at the home cared for by his first wife’s brother Vanya. Continue reading