7.3
Heidi: Girl of the Alps
1974· TV Series
“He had Number 10 Downing Street in his hand!”
House of Cards (1990)
First aired November 18, 199055m/ep1 season · 4 epsEnded
8.1
161 votes
Overview
Frustrated at a new moderate Conservative government and deprived of a promotion to a senior position, chief whip Francis Urquhart prepares a meticulous plot to bring down the Prime Minister then to take his place.
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Status
Ended
Language
English
Type
Miniseries
Last Air Date
December 9, 1990
Networks
BBC One
Production
BBC
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User Reviews
CinemaSerf
9.0As political dramas go, they just don't come any better than this - and Ian Richardson proves a master as an epitome of an ambitious schemer that even Machiavelli would have been proud of. He is "Urquhart", the chief whip of a government under new leadership. It's "Collingwood" (David Lyon) who takes the top job, but when he decides against promoting this local secret-keeper, he makes quite a mistake. Fuelled by his conceivably even more ambitious wife "Elizabeth" (Diane Fletcher) and taking advantage of the naive and malleable young journalist "Mattie" (Susannah Harker) he starts on a wonderf…
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