Season 1 (1974)

S1.E0 ∙ The Nearly Man
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August 4, 1974 • 1h

Television play, later developed into a series, about a Labour member of parliament who never quite makes it to the top.

S1.E1 ∙ Opportunity: March 1975
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November 4, 1975 • 1h

Christopher Collinson entered Parliament in 1958 as a talented, ambitious young man. Now, frustrated and cynical after seventeen y...Read more

S1.E2 ∙ Power Base: April 1975
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November 11, 1975 • 1h

Collinson seeks out the political limelight, but Alice finds his renewed political ambition difficult to come to terms with. Meanw...Read more

S1.E3 ∙ Millie: May 1975
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November 18, 1975 • 1h

As Collinson concentrates on the intensifying Common Market campaign, he is almost taken unawares by events in his constituency. T...Read more

S1.E4 ∙ Reshuffle: June 1975
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November 25, 1975 • 1h

While Collinson awaits the outcome of a cabinet reshuffle that will decide his political future, Alice, living apart from him in t...Read more

S1.E5 ∙ Confrontation: July 1975
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November 25, 1974 • 1h

It's more than two months since Chris and Alice Collinson have seen each other ; a long standing engagement now brings them into c...Read more

S1.E6 ∙ Casualties: August 1975
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December 9, 1975 • 1h

Bernard King, local party chairman, attempts to heal the growing rift between Collinson and his opposition. Criticism of his condu...Read more

S1.E7 ∙ Options
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December 16, 1975

"My error has been my scepticism. I've not actually believed in politics as a way of life" An admission that recently led Chistoph...Read more