Around the world in 80 days
(DVD) 

Around the world in eighty days

Title from disc labels.

Production company, creator, writer, producer, and director statements from container.

Based on the novel "Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours" by Jules Verne

Director, Steve Barron, Brian Kelly, Charles Beeson.

David Tennant, Ibrahim Koma, Leonie Benesch, Jason Watkins, Peter Sullivan, Leon Clingman, Anthony Flanagan, David Sherwood.

Originally broadcast on the Belgian La Une network as a television series in 2021 ; later broadcast in 2022 on PBS as episodes of the television program "Masterpiece."

"London, 1872. Phileas Fogg lives a comfortable but utterly unfulfilling life in London, spending every day at his club with his friends Fortescue and Bellamy. But when he receives a hand-delivered postcard, with only the word 'COWARD' written on the back, it turns his world upside down. So much so, that the usual teasing at the hands of Bellamy provokes Fogg into undertaking a wager--to travel around the world in eighty days. Fogg is accompanied by quick-witted valet Passepartout, who has managed to convince Fogg they've never met before despite serving him his lunch at The Reform Club. And to Fogg's dismay, he realizes that headstrong journalist Abigail Fix is going with them to chronicle the journey--seeing as how her article inspired the original wager. So begins the journey around the world in eighty days--but the question is, can Fogg possibly win the wager? They find themselves in the midst of riots, on the run from the police, flying hot air balloons, crossing deserts and oceans. As they meet extraordinary people from different walks of life, and face challenges that could break them--can all three find the courage to keep going?"-- Publisher's website, viewed on March 15, 2022

"London, 1872. On the day his world is turned upside down by a postcard from a lost love, Phileas Fogg ... is inspired by an article about the exciting advances in travel to take on an almost impossible wager--to circumnavigate the globe in just eighty days. As a man who has spent the last twenty years in a comfortable leather armchair at The Reform Club, he will need all the resilience he can muster and of course would be nowhere without the assistance of quick-witted Frenchman, Passepartout ... Joining them on the road will be the 'Daily telegraph' journalist who came up with the whole crazy idea in the first place--Abigail Fix ..."-- Container

Rating: TV-14.

Subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH) in English

DVD ; NTSC, Region 1 ; widescreen presentation ; 5.1 surround sound ; [color]

For educational and private home use only.

Chiefly in English, some other languages (with English subtitles when other languages are spoken); English SDH subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing.