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A Victorian Age English gentleman takes a wager that he can circle the globe in the unprecedented time of just eighty days.A Victorian Age English gentleman takes a wager that he can circle the globe in the unprecedented time of just eighty days.A Victorian Age English gentleman takes a wager that he can circle the globe in the unprecedented time of just eighty days.
- Nominated for 3 Primetime Emmys
- 4 nominations total
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- TriviaSir John Mills and Robert Morley were the only actors who appeared in Around the World in Eighty Days (1956) and this adaptation.
- GoofsOn a map shown in the opening credits, the capital of China is identified as "Beijing". This spelling is in the Pin-Yin system of representing Chinese with Roman letters, which was not adopted until 1979. The Wade-Giles Romanization spelling of "Peking" would still have been in use. Wade-Giles was developed in 1859.
- Quotes
Detective Wilbur Fix: [drunkenly] Vive la France!
Jean Passepartout: [drunkenly] Up the English!
- ConnectionsReferences Jabberwocky (1977)
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This is a great miniseries for the whole entire family. Pierce Brosnan doing a Bond/Remington Steele as Fogg from a kind of cold-hearted but then caring Englishman making the legendary journey. Rambo and Babylon Five's Julia Nickson beautiful as the princess. The great and late Peter Ustinov in one of his fine performances. But the person to steal the show is Eric Idle of Monty Python as the caring and resourceful as well as comic relief Jean Passepartout. He played Passepartout as a frenchman and also was really the star but gave way to Pierce/Fogg. Idle is the real, real star. And the mini series is like the book. Unlike the Jackie Chan movie and David Niven. More like follows and stick closely to the Jules Verne novel!
- ShelbyTMItchell
- Oct 30, 2004
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- Runtime1 hour 29 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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By what name was Around the World in 80 Days (1989) officially released in India in English?
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