Number 10 (1983)
Synopsis
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.
First Air Date: 1983-02-13
Last Air Date: 1983-03-27
Number of Seasons: 1
Number of Episodes: 7
Created By: Terence Feely
Networks: ITV1
Top Cast
- Neville Barber as King George V
- Denis Quilley as William Ewart Gladstone
- Ian Richardson as James Ramsay MacDonald
- John Stride as David Lloyd George
- Bernard Archard as Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
- David Langton as Herbert Henry Asquith
- Richard Pasco as Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
- Jeremy Brett as William Pitt the Younger
- Celia Johnson as Mrs Gladstone (Anne MacKenzie Robertson)
- John Cater as Reverend Stephen Gladstone
Seasons
Miniseries (1983)
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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Ep. 1: Old Glad Eyes
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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Ep. 2: Underdog
The first Labour government under Ramsay MacDonald.
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Ep. 3: A Woman of Style
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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Ep. 4: The Iron Duke
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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Ep. 5: The Asquiths
Herbert Henry Asquith's premiership and his fight to reduce the power of the House of Lords.
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Ep. 6: Dizzy
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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Ep. 7: Bloodline
William Pitt the Younger struggles against his fate - familial lunacy - while trying to govern the country and court the beautiful Eleanor Eden.
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