Aristocrats
Genre	Drama
Written by	Biography: Stella Tillyard Screenplay: Harriet O'Carroll
Directed by	David Caffrey
Composer	Mark Thomas
Country of origin	United Kingdom United States Ireland
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	6
Production
Executive producers	Kevin Menton Rod Stoneman Rebecca Eaton Michael Wearing
Production locations	Maynooth, County Kildare, Ireland
Editor	Neil Thomson
Running time	300 min. (6 episodes)
Original release
Network	BBC One
Release	20 June (1999-06-20) – 25 July 1999 (1999-07-25)

Aristocrats is a 1999 television series based on the biography by Stella Tillyard of the four aristocratic Lennox sisters in 18th century England. The series consists of six episodes of 50 minutes each and was first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC, starting on 20 June 1999. It was a co-production between the United Kingdom, the United States, and Ireland.

Carton House in County Kildare in Ireland was a major location, where three of the sisters had been brought up by a fourth after the death of their father.

Episodes

• Episode 1 - broadcast 20 June 1999
• Episode 2 - broadcast 27 June 1999
• Episode 3 - broadcast 4 July 1999
• Episode 4 - broadcast 11 July 1999
• Episode 5 - broadcast 18 July 1999
• Episode 6 - broadcast 25 July 1999

Cast

Awards

The series was nominated in 1999 for two Awards by the Irish Film and Television Awards for "Best Craft Contribution," and "Best Television Drama." It also was nominated for two awards by the Royal Television Society, including " Best Costume Design," and "Best Make Up."^[2]

DVD release

All six parts of the miniseries were released in a DVD boxset on 8 August 2006. The set includes three discs containing all the episodes.^[3]