How Green Was My Valley is a BBC Television serial based on the novel by Richard Llewellyn, and features one of the last performances by Stanley Baker.
Producer Martin Lisemore also cast Siân Phillips in his next production, I Claudius (1976).
[1] The series was co-produced by 20th Century Fox as they owned the rights to the novel and had produced the 1941 film.
[2] Set in South Wales during the reign of Queen Victoria, the story of the Morgans, a coal-mining family, is told.
The story centres around Huw, the youngest boy, whose academic ability enables him to consider a future away from the mines in which his father and five brothers toil.