Number 10 - Season 1

Number 10

Season 1

1983 • 7 Episodes

Episodes

Old Glad Eyes - Number 10

1. Old Glad Eyes

February 13, 1983

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

Underdog - Number 10

2. Underdog

February 20, 1983

The first Labour government under Ramsay MacDonald.

A Woman of Style - Number 10

3. A Woman of Style

February 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.

The Iron Duke - Number 10

4. The Iron Duke

March 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.

The Asquiths - Number 10

5. The Asquiths

March 13, 1983

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

Dizzy - Number 10

6. Dizzy

March 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.

Bloodline - Number 10

7. Bloodline

March 27, 1983

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