Longitude (2000)
Synopsis
The fascinating story of John Harrison who, in the 18th century, believed he could make a clock that would work on board a ship—and so solve the problem of finding longitude at sea.
First Air Date: 2000-01-02
Last Air Date: 2000-01-03
Number of Seasons: 1
Number of Episodes: 2
Networks: Channel 4
Top Cast
- Michael Gambon as John Harrison
- Jeremy Irons as Rupert Gould
- Gemma Jones as Elizabeth Harrison
- Anna Chancellor as Muriel Gould
- Emma Kay as Laura Gurney
- Barbara Leigh-Hunt as Dodo Gould
- Peter-Hugo Daly as John Jefferies
- Alec McCowen as Sir Frank Dyson
- Kevin Hudson as Lieutenant (uncredited)
- T. P. McKenna as Edmund Burke
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Miniseries (2000)
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Episodes:
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Ep. 1: Part 1
When the British Parliament creates an award of £20,000 to whoever can come up with a solution for determining longitude at sea, a carpenter-turned-clockmaker, John Harrison, begins his experiments to build an accurate timepiece unaffected by sea travel. His main obstacles are lack of money, a judgment Board convinced that the answer lies in astronomy and not clocks, and the mechanics of the clock itself.
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Ep. 2: Part 2
Rallying after sickness to prove the integrity of their marvelous seafaring chronometers, the Harrisons still had to fight for official recognition, and Gould's restoration of the Harrison clockworks provides a fitting coda to this exceptional story about the thrill of discovery and the tenacity of remarkable men.
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