List of Costume Drama Fandoms

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A costume drama or period drama is a period piece in which elaborate costumes, sets and properties are featured in order to capture the ambience of a particular era.

A lot of costume drama fandoms are television and film adaptations of novels.

Note: What constitutes inclusion on this list may vary among fans.

• Age of Sail fandoms
  • Black Sails
  • Horatio Hornblower (the series with Ioan Gruffud)
  • Master and Commander
  • Pirates of the Caribbean
  • Sharpe
• Alexander (2004 film)
• Deadwood
• Downton Abbey
• The English Patient
• Fandoms based on novels or on the television and film adaptations of the novels of Jane Austen
• Gosford Park
• The Hour
• Jane Eyre (various adaptations)
• Jeeves and Wooster (1990s television adaptation) - a TV series based on the short stories and novels of P.G. Wodehouse
• Ladyhawke (medieval fantasy film)
• Merlin (TV series)
• Les Misérables (2012 musical adaptation)
• Lord Peter Wimsey
• North and South (2004 adaptation)
• Robin Hood adaptations
  • Robin of Sherwood
  • Robin Hood (BBC 2006)
• Rome
• The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne
• Sherlock Holmes adaptations
  • Sherlock Holmes (Granada)
  • Sherlock Holmes (2009)
• Troy (film)
• The Tudors

Other fandoms with nifty costumes:

• Blackadder - a British sitcom; each season is set in a different historical period
• Doctor Who - science fiction, but a lot of episodes take place in Earth's past
• Torchwood - contemporary, but the main character dresses in period costume