For the Greater Good

Synopsis

While three politicians try to reform Britain’s brutal prison system, the tabloid press publish exposés of their scandalous private lives, leaving their careers in peril.

First Air Date: 1991-03-20

Last Air Date: 1991-04-03

Number of Seasons: 1

Number of Episodes: 3

Networks: BBC Two

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Top Cast

Joanne Pearce as Brigid Walkland
Martin Shaw as Peter Balliol, MP
Roy Dotrice as Charles Truman, MP
Nicholas Jones as Julian Brind
Nicholas Woodeson as Michael Parke-Walsh, MP
Fiona Shaw as Gillian Savage
Julian Fellowes as Neville Marsham
Michael Winner as Sir Randolph Spence

Seasons

Miniseries (1991)

No overview available for this season.

Episodes:

Ep. 1: Member (1991-03-20)

Campaigning Tory backbencher Dr Peter Balliol MP finds himself in a crisis of choice between ambition, conscience and a questionable private life.
Ep. 2: Mandarin (1991-03-27)

When a high-flying civil servant discovers a dangerous conspiracy at the Home Office, she must choose between loyalty to her leader and leaking to the press.
Ep. 3: Minister (1991-04-03)

Home Secretary Charles Truman has to weigh up the dictates of conscience against the survival of his career.