📺 'The Forsyte Saga' Saturday 07 January 1967 - BBC2: 20:15 A Family Festival', the first episode of 'The Forsyte Saga' 'The Forsyte Saga' was the last British soap opera made in black and white, and in terms of characterisation and acting, it was probably the finest. With a budget of £250,000 – an enormous sum for the time – it was also the most expensive production the Corporation had undertaken to date. Set against the backdrop of a changing society from the late Victorian era to the inter-w