The Cleopatras

Season 11983

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.

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8 Episodes

E01 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.

January 19, 1983

E02 128 BC

Greek Pharoah Pot Belly shows himself to be one of the few men to better the Cleopatras of his family.

January 26, 1983

E03 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.

February 2, 1983

E04 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.

February 9, 1983

E05 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.

February 16, 1983

E06 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.

February 23, 1983

E07 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 2, 1982

E08 35 BC

Mark Anthony's insatiable passion for Cleopatra saps his military judgement.

March 9, 1982

The Cleopatras

E01 145 BC

E02 128 BC

E03 115 BC

E04 100 BC

E05 80 BC

E06 51 BC

E07 46 BC

E08 35 BC

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E01 145 BC

E02 128 BC

E03 115 BC

E04 100 BC

E05 80 BC

E06 51 BC

E07 46 BC

E08 35 BC