Around the World in 80 Days

April. 16,1989      PG
Rating:
7.1
Trailer Synopsis Cast

Around the World in 80 Days is a 1989 three-part television Eastmancolor miniseries originally broadcast on NBC. The production garnered three nominations for Emmy awards that year. Starring Pierce Brosnan as Phileas Fogg, Eric Idle as Passepartout, Julia Nickson as Princess Aouda, and Peter Ustinov as Detective Fix, the miniseries featured multiple cameo appearances, including Patrick Macnee, Simon Ward, and Christopher Lee as members of the Reform Club, and Robert Morley, who had a cameo in the 1956 film adaptation, and Roddy McDowall appear as officials of the Bank of England. The heroes travel a slightly different route than in the book, and the script makes several contemporary celebrities part of the story who were not mentioned in the book, such as Sarah Bernhardt, Louis Pasteur, Jesse James, Cornelius Vanderbilt and Queen Victoria.

Christopher Lee as  Stuart
Pierce Brosnan as  Phileas Fogg
Ian McNeice as  Batcular
Jack Klugman as  Capt. Bunsby
Robert Morley as  Wentworth
Darren McGavin as  Benjamin Mudge
Roddy McDowall as  McBaines
Anna Massey as  Queen Victoria
Robert Wagner as  Alfred Bennett
Jill St. John as  Woman mistaken for Princess Aouda