7 episodes

Number 10 - Miniseries

First aired Feb 12, 1983Season 1

Follows the private lives of seven British PMs who lived at 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

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Episode 1

Old Glad Eyes

NR
Feb 13, 198355 min

Whilst Englishmen were being murdered in Dublin, the Prime Minister, William Ewart Gladstone, was being tailed by police around London's brothels.

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Episode 2

Underdog

NR
Feb 20, 198355 min

The first Labour government under Ramsay MacDonald.

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Episode 3

A Woman of Style

NR
Feb 27, 198355 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.

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Episode 4

The Iron Duke

NR
Mar 6, 198355 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.

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Episode 5

The Asquiths

NR
Mar 13, 198355 min

Herbert Henry Asquith's premiership and his fight to reduce the power of the House of Lords.

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Episode 6

Dizzy

NR
Mar 20, 198355 min

Disraeli, the master diplomat and favourite of Queen Victoria, at the age of seventy-three entertains beautiful and aristocratic sisters at Number 10.

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Episode 7

Bloodline

NR
Mar 27, 198355 min

William Pitt the Younger struggles against his fate - familial lunacy - while trying to govern the country and court the beautiful Eleanor Eden.