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Who Pays the Ferryman?

television series produced by the BBC in 1977
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Summary

Who Pays the Ferryman? is a television series[1]. Who Pays the Ferryman? ranks in the top 10% of television series entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (560 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Creator: Michael J. Bird[3]
  • Genre: drama television series[4]
  • Original language of film or TV show: English[5]
  • Original broadcaster: BBC Two[6]
  • Country of origin: United Kingdom[7]
  • Start time: November 7, 1977[8]
  • End time: December 26, 1977[9]
  • Filming location: Greece[10]
  • Number of episodes: 8[11]
  • Number of seasons: 1[12]
  • P14821: 162125[13]

Why It Matters

Who Pays the Ferryman? is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[14]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . live.dbpedia.org. Retrieved . live.dbpedia.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . dbpedia.org. Retrieved . dbpedia.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 6d ago · Xezbeth · 2026-10-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Original language of film or tv show → English
    Sitelink count → 4
    Wikipedia languages → ['en', 'eo', 'hu', 'nl']
    Language of work or name → —
    + 1 other property edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-statements-multiple-properties-update:0||2 */ Moving Language of work or name to Original language of film or tv show"
  2. 7w ago · MsMorale · 2026-08-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14821 → 162125
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ P14821: 162125, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/269764|batch #269764]]"
  3. 23w ago · Zestier · 2026-05-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Thetvdb series id → 111821
    Imdb id → tt0162125
    Trakt.tv id → shows/who-pays-the-ferryman
    End time → +1977-12-26T00:00:00Z
    + 22 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/30656|batch #30656]]: TVmaze #2.7"
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