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Cathy Downes narrates a documentary about Count Geoffrey Wladislas Vaile Potocki de Montalk - arguably New Zealand's greatest eccentric. Filmed during his first trip home in fifty-six years, this documentary looks at the poet, pamphleteer, private printer, pagan and pretender to the throne of Poland.

Primary Title
  • Tuesday Documentary
Secondary Title
  • The Count: Profile Of A Polemicist
Date Broadcast
  • Tuesday 3 February 1987
Start Time
  • 21 : 00
Finish Time
  • 22 : 00
Duration
  • 60:00
Channel
  • TV One
Broadcaster
  • Television New Zealand
Owning Organisation
  • Broadcasting Corporation of New Zealand
Episode Description
  • Cathy Downes narrates a documentary about Count Geoffrey Wladislas Vaile Potocki de Montalk - arguably New Zealand's greatest eccentric. Filmed during his first trip home in fifty-six years, this documentary looks at the poet, pamphleteer, private printer, pagan and pretender to the throne of Poland.
Classification
  • Not Classified
Owning Collection
  • Chapman Archive
Broadcast Platform
  • Television
Languages
  • English
Captions
Live Broadcast
  • No
Rights Statement
  • Made for the University of Auckland's educational use as permitted by the Screenrights Licensing Agreement.
Genres
  • Documentary
Contributors
  • Cathy Downes (Narrator)
  • Count Geoffrey Wladislas Vaile Potocki de Montalk (Subject)