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Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years

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Runtime: 60m episodes
Genre: Documentary
Origin: GB

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Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years is an 8-part 1981 drama serial based on the life of Winston Churchill, and particularly his years in enforced exile from political position during the 1920s and 30s. It was written and directed by Ferdinand Fairfax and Churchill was played by Robert Hardy. Hardy's brilliant performance as Churchill won critical acclaim and a BAFTA award in 1982. He reprised the role in The Sittaford Mystery, Bomber Harris and War and Remembrance and at the 50th anniversary celebrations of the end of World War II in 1995 when he quoted a number of Churchill's wartime speeches in character.

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Writing: Ferdinand Fairfax
Status: Ended
First aired: Sep 6, 1981

Time to finish

8 hrs

8 episodes. About 2 weeks at an hour a night.

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Cast

Robert Hardy

Winston Churchill

Eric Porter

Neville Chamberlain

Peter Barkworth

Stanley Baldwin

Nigel Havers

Randolph Churchill

Siân Phillips

Clementine Churchill

Edward Woodward

Sir Samuel Hoare

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SERIES

Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years

19811 Season60m episodes6.2

Documentary

TMDB6.2

Votes4

Your rating

Runtime: 60m episodes
Genre: Documentary
Origin: GB

About

Where to watch

Region

Not available to stream in United States yet.

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E1 · Airs Sep 6, 1981 · 1h 0m
Down and Out
When the Tories lose their majority in Parliament, Winston loses his spot in the cabinet. Deciding to take the opportunity to feather his nest he goes to America on a speaking tour and invests the proceeds in a a pre-crash stock market.
E2 · Airs Sep 13, 1981 · 1h 0m
Politics are Foul
Churchill's views on the Indian question bring him into conflict with his own party.
E3 · Airs Sep 20, 1981 · 1h 0m
In High Places
Churchill takes a European trip to visit famous battlefields and hopes to meet with Hitler but the meeting fails to materialize. The India question still rages in the U.K. Eager to win a victory on the India question Sir Samuel Hoare enlists the aid of Lord Derby to suppress certain unfavorable testimony, but one of the witnesses comes forth to Churchill.
E4 · Airs Sep 27, 1981 · 1h 0m
A Menace in the House
Churchill asks the House to institute a committee to investigate the interference with evidence on the India question. But committee members Ramsay McDonald, Sir Louis Kershaw and Clement Attlee are unable to conclude that there's been any wrongdoing. The findings of the committee further damage Churchill's standing in the house.
E5 · Airs Oct 4, 1981 · 1h 0m
The Flying Peril
Churchill sounds the alarm in the House of Commons that Germany is re-arming and that Britain is falling behind in the race for air superiority. Meanhwile Randolph Churchill backs several ill-advised candidates and Clementine goes traveling and meets another man. When Germany's air superiority becomes public the MacDonald government falls and Churchill works in the general election to return the conservatives to power. Although they are successful, Churchill is once again passed over for a cabinet position.
E6 · Airs Oct 11, 1981 · 1h 0m
His Own Funeral
George V dies. Churchill continues to rail against the government's failure to adequately prepare for war. Wigram grows increasingly despondent at the prospect of war when Hitler occupies the Rhineland. Sarah elopes to America with a Jewish musical hall comedian. When the new king gets embroiled in a dispute over his relationship with an American divorcée, Churchill champions his cause losing yet more popularity with house members.
E7 · Airs Oct 18, 1981 · 1h 0m
The Long Tide of Surrender
Churchill is completely marginalized following the election of Nevill Chamberlain as P.M. Chamberlain pursues a policy of appeasement and orders ministers to cut defense spending. He also brings a civil servant, Sir Horace Wilson on as an aide. Lord Halifax broaches the subject of disarmament with Goehrin which causes Anthony Eden to resign as foreign minister. After promising Churchill that there will be no more accommodations, Chamberlain flies to Munich to meet with Hitler on Czechoslovakia.
E8 · Airs Oct 25, 1981 · 1h 0m
What Price Churchill?
Churchill's warnings come true as Hitler seizes Czechoslovakia and attacks Poland. Still Chamberlain resists admitting that it's to be war and that he must offer Churchill a position in the government.

Details

Writing: Ferdinand Fairfax
Status: Ended
First aired: Sep 6, 1981

Time to finish

8 hrs

8 episodes. About 2 weeks at an hour a night.

View on IMDb ↗

Cast

Robert Hardy

Winston Churchill

Eric Porter

Neville Chamberlain

Peter Barkworth

Stanley Baldwin

Nigel Havers

Randolph Churchill

Siân Phillips

Clementine Churchill

Edward Woodward

Sir Samuel Hoare

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