3. 115 BC (1983)
On his deathbed, Pot Belly stages his greatest practical joke -leaving a will gleefully designed to cause mayhem. It works. Chickpea becomes king against Cleopatra's wishes. However, Cleopatra turns the mob against him, leaving her free to invite her favourite son, Alexander, to share the throne with her. She gets more than she bargained for.
Release date: 1983-02-02
Season number: 1
Episode number: 3
Runtime: 50 minutes
Cast
Michelle Newell
as Cleopatra
Graham Crowden
as Theodotus
Richard Griffiths
as Pot Belly
Elizabeth Shepherd
as Cleopatra, the mother
Robert Hardy
as Julius Caesar
Christopher Neame
as Mark Antony
David Horovitch
as Chickpea
Amanda Boxer
as Cleopatra Tryphaena
Antony Carrick
as Canidius
Arthur Hewlett
as Achoreus
Brian Oulton
as Aristarchus
Caroline Mortimer
as
David Buck
as
Donald Pickering
as
Francesca Gonshaw
as Arsinoe
Geoffrey Chater
as Perigenes
Geoffrey Whitehead
as Scipio Africanus
Godfrey James
as Cato
Graham Faulkner
as Apollodorus
Granville Saxton
as Cyzicenus
Harold Kasket
as Onias
Ian McNeice
as Alexander
Jack May
as Criton
James Aubrey
as Grypus
John Arnatt
as Sophron
John Bennett
as Philocles
John Savident
as Pythagoras
Keith Drinkel
as
Moray Watson
as Gabinius
Morris Perry
as General Chaereas
Patrick Troughton
as Sextus
Pauline Moran
as Cleopatra Berenike
Peter Dennis
as Diomedes
Richard Cubison
as
Roger Brierley
as Demetrius
Rupert Frazer
as Octavian
Seeta Indrani
as Maid
Shirin Taylor
as
Stephen Greif
as Demetrius
Sue Holderness
as Cleopatra, eldest daughter
Tony Caunter
as Achillas
Tony Osoba
as Marsyas
Colin Higgins
as Seleucus
Steve Wilsher
as Assassin (uncredited)
Rest of the cast - click here to expand
Arthur White - Bolis, Carol Harrison, Graham Pountney, Graham Seed - Ptolemy, John Moffatt - Quintus Dellius, John Ringham - Pothinus, Lois Baxter, Prue Clarke - Cleopatra Selene, Richard Bates - Soldier / Servant, Helen Sparks - Dancer