Basic Info

First Air: September 15, 1996

Status: Ended

Seasons & Episodes

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 8

Last Episode

Name: The Reckoning

Season: 1, Episode: 8

Air Date: 1996-11-03

Runtime: 45 min

Rhodes has to battle against his two greatest enemies - his health, which is failing fast, and Princess Radziwill, who is determined to hound him to the last.

Rhodes

1996 1 seasons 8 episodes

Overview

Martin Shaw stars as Cecil Rhodes, the man whose controversial career included the creation of de Beers, the addition of nearly one million square miles to the Britain's African Empire, and had given his name to a country (Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe) larger than most of Europe. Martin Shaw's son plays the younger Rhodes and other cast members include Neil Pearson, Frances Barber and Ken Stott.