An Age of Kings

S01E01 Richard II, Part 1: The Hollow Crown

April 28, 1960 60 min

The Duke of Gloucester, the King's uncle and arch-enemy, has been murdered. Most people suspect Thomas Mowbray did it at the King's command. Henry Bolingbroke, the King's cousin, has accused Mowbray to his face. Together...

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S01E02 Richard II, Part 2: The Desposing of a King

May 12, 1960 60 min

The downfall and deposition of King Richard II as he fights with Bolingbroke for the crown — and awaits his fate. (Covers Act 3 S3—conclusion)

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S01E03 Henry IV, Part 1: Rebellion from the North

May 26, 1960 80 min

Henry Bolingbroke, Duke of Lancaster, aided by the Earl of Northumberland and his son Harry Percy deposed the rightful King, Richard II, and Bolingbroke ascend the throne as King Henry IV. Richard was imprisoned and...

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S01E04 Henry IV, Part 2: The Road to Shrewsbury

June 9, 1960 70 min

The Percy family, Henry Bolingbroke's chief allies in deposing and murdering Richard II, have been cheated of their just rewards and now plot to overthrow the King. Worcester, the architect of their rebellion, arranges a...

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S01E05 Henry IV, Part 3: The New Conspiracy

June 23, 1960 60 min

The rebellion promoted by the Percy family against their former ally King Henry IV has been heavily crushed at Shrewsbury. The rebels were weakened by the defection of the armies promised them by Northumberland and...

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S01E06 Henry IV, Part 4: Uneasy Lies the Head

July 7, 1960 75 min

The burdens of kingship and of failing health weigh heavily upon Henry IV. After his victory at Shrewsbury, he has to organise a new campaign against the northern rebels. Disappointed in Prince Hal, who returns...

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S01E07 Henry V, Part 1: Signs of War

July 21, 1960 60 min

The final defeat of the northern rebels marked the conclusion of the eight troubled years of Henry IV's reign. With the accession of Henry V, a new age has begun. Falstaff and his riotous companions...

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S01E08 Henry V, Part 2: The Band of Brothers

August 4, 1960 60 min

Henry V's first public act after his accession was to lay claim to the French throne and to the hand of the French princess. When the Dauphin scornfully rejected these claims, the King and his...

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S01E09 Henry VI, Part 1: The Red Rose and the White

August 25, 1960 60 min

The English victory at Agincourt confirmed Henry V as an outstanding military leader and a greatly loved King. The ensuing treaty with France and Henry's marriage to Princess Katherine promised both kingdoms a long period...

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S01E10 Henry VI, Part 2: The Fall of a Protector

September 8, 1960 60 min

After Henry V's death his French conquests were soon lost. His brothers, Bedford and Gloucester, were appointed Protectors of the baby Henry VI. The leaderless nobles revived their old quarrels, siding with Lancaster or York,...

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S01E11 Henry VI, Part 3: The Rabble from Kent

September 22, 1960 60 min

(Covers 2 Henry VI Act 3 S2—conclusion)

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S01E12 Henry VI, Part 4: The Morning's War

October 6, 1960 60 min

After the murder of Humphrey of Gloucester, the Duke of Suffolk, banished for his part in the crime, was executed by pirates during his journey into exile. Soon afterwards a murderous rabble from Kent invaded...

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S01E13 Henry VI, Part 5: The Sun in Splendour

October 20, 1960 60 min

The Duke of York was killed by Queen Margaret at Wakefield, but the Yorkists, under their dead leader's son Edward, smashed the Lancastrians in the snow at Towton. Queen Margaret and her son have fled...

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S01E14 Richard III, Part 1: The Dangerous Brother

November 3, 1960 60 min

The fortunes of the House of Lancaster have now reached their lowest point. The young Prince of Wales, heir to Henry VI, has been brutally murdered before his mother's eyes at Tewkesbury, and in the...

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S01E15 Richard III, Part 2: The Boar Hunt

November 17, 1960 75 min

Nothing now can check Gloucester's devious and ruthless struggle to possess himself of the Crown. His brothers are dead, the Queen's party has been destroyed, and Richard, in his new guise as Lord Protector, has...

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