Product Description

The private lives of Britain’s most public figures

Open Britain’s most famous door for a glimpse at the personal affairs that have unfolded over the centuries inside Number 10 Downing Street. In seven thrilling episodes, a veteran cast of actors portray some of Britain’s most notable prime ministers--including William Gladstone (Denis Quilley, Murder on the Orient Express), Benjamin Disraeli (Richard Pasco, Mrs. Brown), David Lloyd George (John Stride, The Main Chance), and Ramsay MacDonald (BAFTA-winner Ian Richardson, House of Cards). Jeremy Brett (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes) delivers a tour-de-force performance as the brilliant but tragic William Pitt the Younger.

Spanning the Napoleonic era to the 1920s, each episode tells the story of a great public statesman--and of the private individual whose passions, hopes, and fears played out within the narrow confines of Number 10.

DVD FEATURES INCLUDE biographies of the prime ministers.

This was a short series dealing with the private lives of 7 British Prime Ministers. It was broadcast in the early 1980s and as far as I know, has disappeared since then.

Although my memories of this series are distant, having not seen it for more than 20 years, I remember it as compelling and absorbing. The acting was excellent, and the stories seemed to focus on a particularly interesting element of each of the Prime Minister's lives. I remember a particularly excellent one on Disraeli.

Hopefully someone will release this series on DVD one of these days. There must so much really good stuff in the archives. Hopefully we will get to see it again.

Season 1, Episode 1: Old Glad Eyes

Season 1, Episode 2: Underdog

Season 1, Episode 3: A Woman of Style

Season 1, Episode 4: The Iron Duke

Season 1, Episode 5: The Asquiths

Season 1, Episode 6: Dizzy

Season 1, Episode 7: Bloodline