EndedBBC One1970-09-13

The Black Tulip

Name: The Black Tulip
Genre: Action & Adventure, Drama
Released: 1970-09-13
Rating: 5.667
Cast: Simon Ward, Tessa Wyatt, John Cater, Wolfe Morris, John Stratton

Action & Adventure Drama~180 min

Seasons

Episodes

Networks

BBC One

Countries

First aired

1970-09-13

Last aired

1970-10-18

Language

Rating

5.7 / 10

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Synopsis and details

The city of Haarlem, Netherlands, has set a prize of ƒ100,000 to the person who can grow a black tulip, sparking competition between the country's best gardeners to win the money, honour and fame. Only the city's oldest citizens remember the Tulip Mania thirty years prior, and the citizens throw themselves into the competition. The young and bourgeois Cornelius van Baerle has almost succeeded but is suddenly thrown into the Loevestein prison. There he meets the prison guard's beautiful daughter Rosa, who will be his comfort and help, and eventually become his rescuer.