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Number 10
What goes on inside Number 10 Downing Street, home of the Prime Minister of the UK and head of Her Majesty’s government? In this fascinating series, a veteran cast portrays some of Britain’s most notable PMs from the Napoleonic era to the 1920s: Gladstone, Disraeli, Lloyd George, MacDonald. With Dennis Quilley, Richard Pasco, Ian Richardson, and Jeremy Brett (Sherlock Holmes) as William Pitt the Younger. 7 episodes; SDH subtitles; 351 min. on 3 DVDs.
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Disc 1
Episode 1: Old Glad Eyes
Refusing the protection of a personal bodyguard, William Gladstone habitually disappears into the murkier corners of 1880s London. There he seeks out the fallen women of the capital. Is he guided by Christian principles and reforming zeal? Or does he have more earthbound motives?
Episode 2: Underdog
Britain gets its first Labour Party prime minister in 1924. Ramsay MacDonald is a Scot of humble origins, which the establishment never lets him forget. During a Red scare, MacDonald discovers the lengths to which his enemies will go to bring him down.
Episode 3: A Woman of Style
World War I leader David Lloyd George faces a bloody war of attrition in Flanders and a submarine campaign that threatens to starve Britain into submission. But the Welsh Wizard knows he is battling English middle-class values as much as the German military. When a crisis arises within his own household, it may be more than even he can surmount.
Disc 2
Episode 4: The Iron Duke
War hero and scourge of Napoleon, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, becomes Britain’s new peacetime prime minister. While the Iron Duke dismisses the murderous threats of his estranged nephew, he fears the issue of Catholic emancipation will be his real Waterloo.
Episode 5: The Asquiths
In 1908, Herbert Henry Asquith moves into No. 10 from the chancellor’s residence next door and faces a Commons-versus-Lords battle of historic proportions. Outside Downing Street, suffragettes chain themselves to the railings and demand the vote. Inside, an already liberated Mrs. Asquith exercises her freedoms with abandon.
Disc 3
Episode 6: Dizzy
Raised a Christian but born a Jew, Benjamin Disraeli has always felt like an outsider. Prime minister late in life, he struggles to keep Russian ambitions in the eastern Mediterranean in check. He also contends with his own passion for three women—one married, one a widow, and one at the very highest levels of Victorian society.
Episode 7: Bloodline
Rigorously groomed for leadership since boyhood, William Pitt the Younger has given his very lifeblood in the service of his country. But the prime minister hides a dark secret. More terrifying to him than the Napoleonic armies massing across the Channel is the Pitt family curse, which threatens to destroy him and drive away the woman he loves. |
- Biographies of the Prime Ministers
| Packaging: Thinpak
Run Time: 351 minutes
Format: Full screen
Number of discs: 3
Language: English
Subtitles: N/A
Color or B&W: Color
CC: No
SDH: Yes
Region Code: 1
Aspect Ratio: 4:3
Rating: N/A | "Magnificent acting and classic storytelling"—Script Magazine
"One of the best DVD sets I've seen this year. I highly, highly recommend Number 10."—DVD Talk |
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