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Number 10

1983 · 1 season

A stately, talky costume drama that peeks behind closed doors of power, rewarding patience with quiet human revelations.

Created by
Terence Feely
Genres
Drama
Starring
Denis Quilley, Ian Richardson, John Stride
Overview
Follows the private lives of seven British PMs who lived at Number 10 Downing Street between the 1780s and the 1920s: William Pitt the Younger, the Duke of Wellington (Arthur Wellesley), Benjamin Disraeli, William Ewart Gladstone, David Lloyd-George, Herbert Henry Asquith and James Ramsay MacDonald.

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Created by
Terence Feely
Genres
Drama
Starring
Denis Quilley, Ian Richardson, John Stride
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Tone
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • power
  • politics
  • ambition
  • identity
  • betrayal
Places
  • single country house
  • big city
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • anthology
  • serialised
  • true story
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror0
Humour3
Realism8
Romance3
Tension4
Darkness4
Complexity6
Emotional weight5

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Details

Genres
drama
Created by
Terence Feely
Written by
Terence Feely
Starring
Denis Quilley, Ian Richardson, John Stride, Bernard Archard, David Langton, Richard Pasco, Jeremy Brett, Celia Johnson
Length
1 seasons, 7 episodes, 55 min each
Network
ITV1
Country
United Kingdom, Canada
Languages
English

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