Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

First among equals [videorecording] / Granada Television ; producer, Mervyn Watson ; written by Derek Marlowe ; directed by John Gorrie, Brian Mills, and Sarah Harding.

Publisher, Date:

Silver Spring, MD : Distributed by Acorn Media, 2008.

Description:

3 videodiscs (ca. 494 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

Beginning in 1964, this television drama follows the careers of four members of Parliament from their backbench days through 20-plus years of alliances and betrayals, triumphs and reversals. Each man aims to become prime minister-- but only one will succeed.

Subjects:

Great Britain. Parliament -- Drama.

Legislators -- Great Britain -- Drama.

Prime ministers -- Great Britain -- Drama.

Foreign television programs -- Great Britain.

Political television programs.

Television melodramas.

Television adaptations.

Fiction television programs.

Television mini-series.

Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1964-1979 -- Drama.

Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1979-1997 -- Drama.