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Season 1

  • S01E01 Part 1

    • June 19, 1988
    • Channel 4

    Harry Perkins, a Labour MP from Sheffield, is elected British Prime Minister, having stood on a platform promising huge social change. The election of Perkins, however, has caused uproar amongst the Establishment, and Perkins is soon under fire from the right-wing press, the US administration, and even the British Security Services.

  • S01E02 Part 2

    • June 26, 1988
    • Channel 4

    Having survived his first crisis, Prime Minister Harry Perkins, now secure in Downing Street, faces the forces ranged against him. He loses his right-hand man in a sex scandal and now he faces a power workers' strike.

  • S01E03 Part 3

    • July 3, 1988
    • Channel 4

    Harry has been in office for a year and everything has improved - even the weather. When he decides that US bases and missiles must leave the country, the Americans decide that it is time that Harry went.