A four-part drama adaptation about the life of polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton. Based on Shackleton’s own journals. In 1914 Ernest Shackleton chooses to lead a team on their famous journey aboard the Endurance. When the ship is trapped and crushed by pack-ice, Shackleton and five of his men embark on a desperate 800-mile journey from Elephant Island to South Georgia.

Shackleton (1983)
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Michael Hayward
‘Putty’ Marston (4 episodes)

David Schofield
Sir Ernest Shackleton (4 episodes)

David Rodigan
Frank Wild (4 episodes)
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Victoria Fairbrother
Emily Dorman (2 episodes)Emily Shackleton (1 episode)

Robert Lang
Major Darwin (3 episodes)

Robert James
Sir John Scott-Keltie (3 episodes)
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Neil Stacy
Robert Scott (2 episodes)

Geoffrey Chater
Sir Clements Markham (2 episodes)

Raymond Adamson
R.G.S. Member (2 episodes)