The Black Tulip

The city of Haarlem, Netherlands, has set a prize of ƒ100,000 to the person who can grow a black tulip, sparking competition between the country's best gardeners to win the money, honour and fame. Only the city's oldest citizens remember the Tulip Mania thirty years prior, and the citizens throw themselves into the competition. The young and bourgeois Cornelius van Baerle has almost succeeded but is suddenly thrown into the Loevestein prison. There he meets the prison guard's beautiful daughter Rosa, who will be his comfort and help, and eventually become his rescuer.

Simon Ward

Cornelius Van Bearle

Tessa Wyatt

Rosa

John Cater

Dirk

Wolfe Morris

Isaac Boxtel

John Stratton

Gryphus

Leon Eagles

Colonel Van Deken

First aired

September 13, 1970

Last aired

October 18, 1970

Status

Ended

Original language

English

Episodes

6

Genres

Action & Adventure, Drama

• Mini-series6 episodes · 1970