Number 10 (TV series)
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Number 10 was a 1983 British television series originally aired on ITV and lasting for 7 episodes from 13 February to 27 March 1983. It depicted the personal and political lives of seven British Prime Ministers, ranging from the 1780s to the 1920s, during their occupancy of 10 Downing Street. The series was a revealing insight on some of the more personal incidents in the lives of past British Prime Ministers and explored the effect the Prime Ministers had on the house.
Cast
[edit]The prime ministers
[edit]- Jeremy Brett as William Pitt the Younger
- Bernard Archard as Duke of Wellington
- Denis Quilley as William Gladstone
- Richard Pasco as Benjamin Disraeli
- David Langton as H. H. Asquith
- John Stride as David Lloyd George
- Ian Richardson as Ramsay MacDonald
Selected others
[edit]- Gabrielle Drake as Harriet Arbuthnot
- Caroline Langrishe as Eleanor Eden
- Frances Bennett as Duchess of Gordon
- Barbara Kellerman as Frances Stevenson
- Alfred Burke as William Pitt the Elder
- Keith Barron as Earl of Chatham
- Patrick Newell as Lord North
- David Ryall as Charles James Fox
- Terence Harvey as Winston Churchill
- David Neal as Anthony Addington
- Jeffrey Wickham as Duke of Richmond
- Charles Stapley as Lord Auckland
- Duncan Royce Hiley Addington
- Philip Latham as Charles Arbuthnot
- Peter Gale as Robert Peel
- Michael Barrington as William Huskisson
Production
[edit]Yorkshire Television built an exact replica of No. 10 Downing Street for the series in a massive warehouse outside Leeds.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Panoramas newspaper TV and Radio Guide; 09/04/1984-15/04/1984
External links
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Categories:
- 1980s British drama television series
- 1983 British television series debuts
- 1983 British television series endings
- ITV television dramas
- Television series by Yorkshire Television
- British English-language television shows
- Cultural depictions of prime ministers of the United Kingdom
- Cultural depictions of William Pitt the Younger
- Cultural depictions of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
- Cultural depictions of Charles James Fox
- Cultural depictions of Benjamin Disraeli
- Cultural depictions of David Lloyd George
- Cultural depictions of British people
- Cultural depictions of George IV
- Cultural depictions of Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
- 10 Downing Street
- Cultural depictions of Robert Peel
- Cultural depictions of Henry Addington
- United Kingdom television show stubs