Number 10 (TV series)
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
The prime ministers
- Denis Quilley as William Gladstone
- Ian Richardson as Ramsay MacDonald
- John Stride as David Lloyd George
- Bernard Archard as Duke of Wellington
- David Langton as H. H. Asquith
- Richard Pasco as Benjamin Disraeli
- Jeremy Brett as William Pitt the Younger
Selected others
- 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