The cast
Following the success of The Forsyte Saga, The Pallisers featured Susan Hampshire and Martin Jarvis and used the same script editor, Lennox Philips, in an attempt to create the same winning formula.
Credits
| Director | Ronald Wilson |
| Producer | Martin Lisemore |
| Script Editor | Lennox Phillips |
| Script | Simon Raven |
| Designer | Raymond Cusick |
| Tim Harvey |
Cast list
| Lady Glencora Palliser | Susan Hampshire |
| Plantagenet Palliser | Philip Latham |
| Dolly Longstaffe | Donald Pickering |
| Duke Of St. Bungay | Roger Livesey |
| Barrington Erle | Moray Watson |
| Duke Of Omnium | Roland Culver |
| Silverbridge | Anthony Andrews |
| Lord Fawn | Derek Jacobi |
| Laura Standish/Kennedy | Anna Massey |
| Burgo Fitzgerald | Barry Justice |
| Lady Mabel Grex | Anna Carteret |
| Lord Brentford | Lockwood West |
| Marie Finn/Goesler | Barbara Murray |
| Phineas Finn | Donal Mccann |
| Mr Monk | Bryan Pringle |
| Collingwood | Maurice Quick |
| Robert Kennedy | Derek Godfrey |
| Lady Mary Palliser | Kate Nicholls |
| Lord Chiltern | John Hallam |
| Countess Midlothian | Fabia Drake |
| Quintus Slide | Clifford Rose |
| Aspasia Fitzgibbon | Rosalind Knight |
| Lizzie Eustace | Sarah Badel |
| Lawrence Fitzgibbon | Neil Stacy |
| Rev Emilius | Anthony Ainley |
| Supt Worth | Antony Carrick |
| Mary Flood | Maire Ni Ghrainne |
| Alice Vavasor | Caroline Mortimer |
| Mrs Carbuncle | Helen Lindsay |
| Mr Bonteen | Peter Sallis |
| Mrs Bonteen | June Whitfield |
| John Vavasor | John Glyn-Jones |
| Frank Tregear | Jeremy Irons |
| Abel Wharton | Brewster Mason |
| Sir Orlando Drought | Basil Dignam |
| Sextus Parker | David Ryall |
| Lady Hartletop | Doris Rogers |
| Gerald | Michael Cochrane |
| Mrs Hittaway | Penelope Keith |
| Kate Vavasor | Karin Macarthy |
| John Grey | Bernard Brown |
| Violet Effingham | Mel Martin |
| Patience Crabstick | Carolyn Jones |
| Violet Chiltern | Mel Martin |
| Mrs Macpherson | Elspeth Macnaughton |
| Mr Scuby | Gordon Gostelow |
| Everett Wharton | Gareth Forwood |
| Magistrate | Christopher Banks |
| Frank Greystock | Martin Jarvis |
| Mr Grimes | James Berwick |
| Andy Gowran | Leonard Maguire |
| Head Croupier | John Slavid |
| Mr Mildmay | Norman Shelley |
| Emily Lopez | Sheila Ruskin |
| Silverbridge | Nicholas Scrivner |
| Lady Mary | Heather Garrison |
| Young Nurse | Margaret Burnett |
| Majordomo | C. Kenneth Benda |
| Mr Clarkson | Sydney Bromley |
| Lady Rosina De Courcy | Sheila Keith |
| Alice’s Maid | Lynn Smith |
| Wharton’s Maid | Nancy Adams |
| Mr Boncassen | Jerry Stovin |
| Prince of Wales | Edward Hardwicke |
| Mr Bunce | Haydn Jones |
| Mills Happerton | Angus Mackay |
| Mrs Bunce | Brenda Cowling |
| Mrs Meager | Sheila Fay |
| Squire Vavasor | Donald Eccles |
| Smithers | George Ballantyne |
| Mrs Boncassen | Eileen Erskine |
| Gerald | Andrew Tinney |
| Major Tifto | John Ringham |
| Lady Monk | Helen Christie |
| Marchioness of Auld Reekie | Sonia Dresdel |
| Mrs Pritchard | Jacqueline Maude |
| Bishop | John Richmond |
| Ferdinand Lopez | Ferdinand Lopez |
| Silverbridge | Roderick Shaw |
| Mr Chaffanbrass | Peter Vaughan |
| Lord George | Terence Alexander |
| Dr. Finn | Desmond Perry |
| Mr Fothergill | John Nettleton |
| Gerard Maule | Jeremy Clyde |
| Elderly Nurse | Olive Mercer |
| Mr Turnbull | Edward Burnham |
| Mr Gresham | Robin Bailey |
| Mr Gogram | George Hagan |
| Speaker | Desmond Llewelyn |
| Lady Baldock | Ellen Pollock |
| Mr Bott | John Stratton |
| Capt Colepepper | Dallas Cavell |
| Miss Cassewary | Josie Kidd |
| Isabel Boncassen | Lynne Frederick |
| Lady Hartletop | Edith Savile |
| George Vavasor | Gary Watson |
| Mr Lovibond | Benjamin Whitrow |
| Mr Spout | Brian Tully |
| Gerald | Barnaby Shaw |
| Lady Dumbello | Rachel Herbert |
| Chancellor of Exchequer | Godfrey Kenton |
| Lady Fawn | Madeleine Christie |