About this season
Drama series about the private lives of seven British prime ministers who lived in Number 10 Downing Street between the 1780s and the 1920s: William Pitt the Younger, the Duke of Wellington (Arthur Wellesley), Benjamin Disraeli, William Ewart Gladstone, David Lloyd-George, Herbert Henry Asquith and James Ramsay MacDonald.
Episodes (7)
1. Old Glad Eyes
Aired 13 February 1983 • 55 min
Whilst Englishmen were being murdered in Dublin, the Prime Minister, William Ewart Gladstone, was being tailed by police around London's brothels.
2. Underdog
Aired 20 February 1983 • 55 min
The first Labour government under Ramsay MacDonald.
3. A Woman of Style
Aired 27 February 1983 • 55 min
During the First World War, while the Prime Minister David Lloyd George was busy fighting his generals as well as the Germans, his wife Margaret and his mistress Frances Stevenson were fighting their own battle at Number 10.
4. The Iron Duke
Aired 6 March 1983 • 55 min
Despite the Duke of Wellington's enormous popularity, he incurred the nation's wrath by appearing to sympathise with the Irish Catholics. His reputation was also damaged by rumours of his friendship with Harriet Arbuthnot.
5. The Asquiths
Aired 13 March 1983 • 55 min
Herbert Henry Asquith's premiership and his fight to reduce the power of the House of Lords.
6. Dizzy
Aired 20 March 1983 • 55 min
Disraeli, the master diplomat and favourite of Queen Victoria, at the age of seventy-three entertains beautiful and aristocratic sisters at Number 10.
7. Bloodline
Aired 27 March 1983 • 55 min
William Pitt the Younger struggles against his fate - familial lunacy - while trying to govern the country and court the beautiful Eleanor Eden.