Picks and Pans Review: The Search for Alexander the Great

UPDATED 05/11/1981 at 01:00 AM EDT Originally published 05/11/1981 at 01:00 AM EDT

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British actor Nicholas Clay stylishly re-creates the fourth century B.C. Macedonian who conquered the known world at 27, but the intercutting of James Mason's narration is annoyingly awkward and confusing. Handsomely filmed, though, the four-part series continues weekly on Wednesdays.

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