Trivia

For this production, director David Giles chose to go with a semi-stylised setting which he referred to as both "emblematic" and "heraldic."

Leonard Rossiter died before the show aired.

Part of the long running BBC Television Shakespeare project which ran between 1978 and 1985.

Charles Kay plays Philip II, King of France. Kay had previously played Philip's father, Louis VII, in the TV series The Devil's Crown (1978).

John Castle, who played Lord Salisbury, played Geoffrey, the third son of King Henry II, in The Lion in Winter; Arthur is Geoffrey's son