Watch Masterpiece Season 27 Episode 14: The Wingless Bird

PBS's longest running (and most honored) dramatic series is an Anglophile's delight, featuring British adaptations of literary classics and original works. The first `Masterpiece' was `The First Churchills,' and since then it has won nine Peabodys and 29 Emmys (beginning with Susan Hampshire's Best Actress award for `Churchills'). Its many memorable pro (more…)

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Season 27, Episode 14 The Wingless Bird

First Aired: February 8, 1998

"The Wingless Bird," a three-part drama of class differences in WWI England. In Part 1, a shopkeeper (Claire Skinner) is preoccupied by a well-born suitor (Edward Atterton), as well as her sister's clandestine love affair. Reginald: Julian Wadham. Mr. Conway: Frank Grimes.

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Premiered: January 10, 1971
Rating: TV-PG
Premise: PBS's longest running (and most honored) dramatic series is an Anglophile's delight, featuring British adaptations of literary classics and original works. The first `Masterpiece' was `The First Churchills,' and since then it has won nine Peabodys and 29 E… (more)