Title: Around the World in Eighty Days
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Years on Air: 1989 (3-part miniseries)
Main Concept: The wealthy Phileas Fogg makes a wager with a few friends from his gentlemen's club that he can circumnavigate the world in eighty days. He embarks with his new manservant Passerpartout, while unaware he is being followed by Detective Fix, who believes Fogg is a bank robber.
Network: NBC
The miniseries is based on the novel by Jules Verne.
Starring: Pierce Brosnan as Phileas Fogg
Eric Idle as Jean Passerpartout
Julia Nickson as Princess Aouda
Peter Ustinov as Detective Wilbur Fix
I don't like to say anything bad about the shows included in this book, but this is one that I don't really have anything good to say about it. I didn't even watch the whole series, but the storyline got so far away from Jules Verne's novel that it was getting stupid.
I will say that casting Pierce Brosnan as Phileas Fogg was a good choice, but I think he really fit the character. I didn't see Julia Nickson as Aouda (I didn't get that far), but I personally don't think Eric Idle and Peter Ustinov were good casting choices for Passerpartout and Mr. Fix.
However, if getting rather far away from the novel it's based on isn't something that bothers you, I would recommend this one.
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