Season 1
6 episodes · 1975
Episode 1. A Dream of Living
1975-05-02
Successful novelist Scott Fitzgerald tries desperately to cope both with his rivalry with Ernest Hemingway and with his mentally ailing wife Zelda.
Episode 2. Caesar and Claretta
1975-05-09
Robert Hardy and Helen Mirren star as Benito Mussolini and his lover Claretta Petacci in this dramatization of their last night together, locked in a small peasant cottage. Having admired Mussolini since she was a schoolgirl, Claretta…
Episode 3. Mr. Garrick and Mrs. Woffington
1975-05-16
No synopsis
Episode 4. The Statue and the Rose
1975-05-23
Charles Stewart Parnell is the great hope of Irish politics, but he's in love with a married woman.
Episode 5. Husband to Mrs. Fitzherbert
1975-05-30
In 1799, George, Prince of Wales and heir to the throne of mad King George III, awaits the Pope's judgment on his marriage to twice-widowed Mrs. Fitzherbert.
Episode 6. Mrs. Weekley's Lover
1975-06-06
No synopsis