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42
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IMDb
7.1
/107/
Trakt
26
/5/
TMDb
30
/2/

Network: BBC Two
Episode Runtime: 50 min.
Season Runtime: 400 min.
Status: Ended
Certification: NR

The Cleopatras (1982)

Miniseries (Jan. 19, 1983, midnight)

Eight-part drama covering the lives of the queens of Egypt from Cleopatra II in 145 BC to the death of the famous Cleopatra VII in 30 BC.

poster

The Cleopatras (1982)

Miniseries (Jan. 19, 1983, midnight)

Eight-part drama covering the lives of the queens of Egypt from Cleopatra II in 145 BC to the death of the famous Cleopatra VII in 30 BC.

42
?
IMDb
7.1
/107/
Trakt
26
/5/
TMDb
30
/2/
Richard Griffiths
Richard Griffiths
Graham Crowden
Graham Crowden
Michelle Newell
Michelle Newell
Elizabeth Shepherd
Elizabeth Shepherd
Robert Hardy
Robert Hardy
Christopher Neame
Christopher Neame
David Horovitch
David Horovitch
Amanda Boxer
Amanda Boxer

Jan. 19, 1983, midnight 0.0

S1E1 - 145 BC

Ptolemy VIII, known as Pot Belly, takes control. A vengeful mother has the support of the mob - and persuades Rome she can be just as good a friend as Potbelly. In revenge Pot Belly sends a very special present.
Jan. 26, 1983, midnight 0.0

S1E2 - 128 BC

Greek Pharoah Pot Belly shows himself to be one of the few men to better the Cleopatras of his family.
Feb. 2, 1983, midnight 0.0

S1E3 - 115 BC

On his deathbed, Pot Belly stages his greatest practical joke -leaving a will gleefully designed to cause mayhem. It works. Chickpea becomes king against Cleopatra's wishes. However, Cleopatra turns the mob against him, leaving her free to invite her favourite son, Alexander, to share the throne with her. She gets more than she bargained for.
Feb. 9, 1983, midnight 0.0

S1E4 - 100 BC

Berenike plots to get rid of her drunken husband Alexander. Chickpea reclaims the throne and Berenike's ambition is realised when he makes her joint monarch. However, his death leaves a dangerous power vacuum - and Rome is now taking a more than friendly interest.
Feb. 16, 1983, midnight 0.0

S1E5 - 80 BC

For all his eccentricity, Fluter sees clearly that Rome is the true source of all power, and he sets off on an extended royal visit, dispensing large sums of money to bribe both Caesar and the Senate to back him. The Egyptians, furious at this subservience, depose him in his absence and make his wife, Cleopatra Tryphaena, and his daughter, Berenike, joint monarchs. But the illegitimate Fluter has enough Ptolemy blood not to let go easily.
Feb. 23, 1983, midnight 0.0

S1E6 - 51 BC

The youngest and most notorious of the Cleopatras, now 18, becomes joint ruler with her brother Ptolemy. Civil war breaks out. It is only the arrival of Julius Caesar that makes a solution possible. Cleopatra and Caesar become lovers. She believes she has found the man to help her realise her ambition to rule the world.
March 2, 1982, midnight 0.0

S1E7 - 46 BC

Cleopatra gives birth to Julius Caesar's son and takes him to republican Rome to persuade Caesar to declare himself King - with her son as heir.
March 9, 1982, midnight 0.0

S1E8 - 35 BC

Mark Anthony's insatiable passion for Cleopatra saps his military judgement.
Network: BBC Two
Episode Runtime: 50 min.
Season Runtime: 400 min.
Released: March 2, 1982
Last Air Date: Feb. 23, 1983, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR

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