
The Cleopatras is a 1983 BBC Television historical drama serial created and written by Philip Mackie. Set in Ancient Egypt during the latter part of the Ptolemaic Dynasty, the eight-part series follows the lives of a series of queens belonging to the Ptolemaic Dynasty of ancient Egypt, culminating in its final active ruler Cleopatra VII. Intended to be the I, Claudius of the 1980s, The Cleopatras met with a decidedly negative critical reaction, and was regarded and portrayed as a gaudy farce. It also produced a number of complaints due to scenes of nudity.
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Air Date: 1983-01-19
Ptolemy VIII, known as Pot Belly, takes control. A vengeful mother has the support of the mob - and persuades Rome sh...
Air Date: 1983-01-26
Greek Pharoah Pot Belly shows himself to be one of the few men to better the Cleopatras of his family.
Air Date: 1983-02-02
On his deathbed, Pot Belly stages his greatest practical joke -leaving a will gleefully designed to cause mayhem. It ...
Air Date: 1983-02-09
Berenike plots to get rid of her drunken husband Alexander. Chickpea reclaims the throne and Berenike's ambition is r...
Air Date: 1983-02-16
For all his eccentricity, Fluter sees clearly that Rome is the true source of all power, and he sets off on an extend...
Air Date: 1983-02-23
The youngest and most notorious of the Cleopatras, now 18, becomes joint ruler with her brother Ptolemy. Civil war br...
Air Date: 1982-03-02
Cleopatra gives birth to Julius Caesar's son and takes him to republican Rome to persuade Caesar to declare himself K...
Air Date: 1982-03-09
Mark Anthony's insatiable passion for Cleopatra saps his military judgement.