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.Read more
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Episodes
- S01 · E01
Old Glad Eyes
Aired Feb 13, 1983
Whilst Englishmen were being murdered in Dublin, the Prime Minister, William Ewart Gladstone, was being tailed by police around London's brothels.
- S01 · E02
Underdog
Aired Feb 20, 1983
The first Labour government under Ramsay MacDonald.
- S01 · E03
A Woman of Style
Aired Feb 27, 1983
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.
- S01 · E04
The Iron Duke
Aired Mar 6, 1983
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.
- S01 · E05
The Asquiths
Aired Mar 13, 1983
Herbert Henry Asquith's premiership and his fight to reduce the power of the House of Lords.
- S01 · E06
Dizzy
Aired Mar 20, 1983
Disraeli, the master diplomat and favourite of Queen Victoria, at the age of seventy-three entertains beautiful and aristocratic sisters at Number 10.
- S01 · E07
Bloodline
Aired Mar 27, 1983
William Pitt the Younger struggles against his fate - familial lunacy - while trying to govern the country and court the beautiful Eleanor Eden.