The Cleopatras - Season 1

The Cleopatras - Season 1

Season 1

Network
DatesJan 19, 1982 - Mar 9, 1982

Episodes

145 BC
Season 1Episode 160 min

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 19, 1982
128 BC
Season 1Episode 260 min

128 BC

Greek Pharoah Pot Belly shows himself to be one of the few men to better the Cleopatras of his family.
Jan 26, 1982
115 BC
Season 1Episode 360 min

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 2, 1982
100 BC
Season 1Episode 460 min

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 9, 1983
80 BC
Season 1Episode 560 min

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 16, 1983
51 BC
Season 1Episode 660 min

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.
Feb 23, 1983
46 BC
Season 1Episode 760 min

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.
Mar 2, 1982
35 BC
Season 1Episode 860 min

35 BC

Mark Anthony's insatiable passion for Cleopatra saps his military judgement.
Mar 9, 1982

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