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The Cleopatras

1983 1 season 8 eps

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S1 · E1 · Jan 19, 1983

145 BC Episode 1

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.

6.8 · You

60 min

S1 · E2 · Jan 26, 1983

128 BC Episode 2

Greek Pharoah Pot Belly shows himself to be one of the few men to better the Cleopatras of his family.

7.1 · You

60 min

S1 · E3 · Feb 2, 1983

115 BC Episode 3

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.

6.8 · You

60 min

S1 · E4 · Feb 9, 1983

100 BC Episode 4

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.

6.3 · You

60 min

S1 · E5 · Feb 16, 1983

80 BC Episode 5

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.

6.9 · You

60 min

S1 · E6 · Feb 23, 1983

51 BC Episode 6

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.

7.0 · You

60 min

S1 · E7 · Mar 2, 1982

46 BC Episode 7

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.

6.5 · You

60 min

S1 · E8 · Mar 9, 1982

35 BC Episode 8

Mark Anthony's insatiable passion for Cleopatra saps his military judgement.

6.5 · You

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The Cleopatras

Season 1

145 BC Episode 1

128 BC Episode 2

115 BC Episode 3

100 BC Episode 4

80 BC Episode 5

51 BC Episode 6

46 BC Episode 7

35 BC Episode 8

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The Cleopatras

Season 1

145 BC Episode 1

128 BC Episode 2

115 BC Episode 3

100 BC Episode 4

80 BC Episode 5

51 BC Episode 6

46 BC Episode 7

35 BC Episode 8

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