Alice Through the Looking Glass is a BBC Christmas special, based on Lewis Carroll's second book Through the Looking-Glass. It is considered to be among the most faithful and literate adaptations.
Synopsis[]
Join Alice on her journey through the mirror in BBC's fanciful adaptation of Lewis Caroll's classic novel. In an alternate world, just on the other side of the mirror's reflection, Alice finds herself in the middle of a life-sized chess game, where she encounters a variety of surreal scenarios and fantastical characters, including Tweedledee and Tweedledum, Humpty Dumpty, the Red Queen and others. To be crowned queen and return home, Alice must traverse all the ranks to the end of this massive chessboard-but will she make it?
Cast[]
- Sarah Sutton as Alice
- Brenda Bruce as White Queen
- Richard Pearson as White King
- Judy Parfitt as Red Queen
- Geoffrey Bayldon as White Knight
- Freddie Jones as Humpty Dumpty
- Stephen Moore as Haigha
- Jonathan Cecil as Hatta/Father of Beamish Boy
- Anthony Collin as Tweedledum
- Raymond Mason as Tweedledee
- Bruce Purchase as Walrus/Guard
- Stanley Lebor as Carpenter/Goat
- Robin Wentworth as Lion/Plum Pudding
- Nicholas Jones as Unicorn
- June Watson as Tiger Lily
- Vivienne Moore as Rose
- Ian Trigger as Gnat
- Douglas Milvain as Aged, Aged Man
- Jeffrey Segal as Frog/Man in White Paper
- Richard Speight as Beamish Boy
- Samantha Gates as Daisy (uncredited)
- John Scott Martin as Red King (uncredited)
- Sylvia O'Donnell as Daisy (uncredited)