Nineteen Eighty-Four (1953 TV program)
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Nineteen Eighty-Four was an American television adaptation of the novel of the same name by George Orwell, broadcast on CBS in the fall of 1953. Eddie Albert played Winston Smith, Norma Crane was Julia, and Lorne Greene appeared as O'Brien. It was the first television version of the novel, and was broadcast in the Studio One series on September 21, 1953.
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| Characters | Winston Smith · Julia · O'Brien · Big Brother · Emmanuel Goldstein |
| Places | Oceania · Eastasia · Eurasia · Airstrip One · Room 101 |
| Classes | Inner Party · Outer Party · Proles |
| Ministries | Ministry of Love · Ministry of Peace · Ministry of Plenty · Ministry of Truth |
| Concepts | Ingsoc · Newspeak (wordlist) · Doublethink · Goodthink · Crimestop · Two + two = five · Thoughtcrime · Thought Police · Telescreen · Memory hole · The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism · Two Minutes Hate · Hate week · Prolefeed · Prolesec |
| Adaptations | 1953 US TV · 1954 BBC TV · 1956 film · 1984 film · 1999 parody · 2005 opera · 2009 film |
| Influence | Nineteen Eighty-Four in popular media |