Treasure Island, original title Die Schatzinsel, is a German-French mini-series, produced for German television station ZDF in 1966.
The screenplay by Walter Ulbrich, who also co-produced the film, remains largely close to Robert Louis Stevenson's classic 1883 novel Treasure Island.
[2] It was produced on 35 mm film with many small details and even in colour, although colour television was introduced on German television only in 1967 (so the first screening had to be in black and white).
Baker continued to develop the project and it was finally made as the 10 part serial Return to Treasure Island in 1986.
[3] The mini-series remains well-regarded and popular in the German-language area, it is even considered a "mythos of German television history".