The Shadow of the Tower

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  • BBC Two
  • Drama History Mini-series

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Crown in Jeopardy
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Henry Tudor emerges victorious over Richard III at the battle of Bosworth Field and seeks to form a coalition from which he hopes to establish a Tudor dynasty.
1x2
Power in the Land
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Henry consolidates his power when Elizabeth gives birth to Prince Arthur legitimizing Henry's claim of descent from the legendary monarch.
1x3
The Schooling of Apes
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Henry's enemies represent commoner Lambert Simmel as the Earl of Warwick, the York pretender. The Earl of Lincoln leaves for Ireland to head the army that is forming against Henry.
1x4
The Crowning of Apes
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Henry forms an army to defend himself against the Irish-German army coming against him from Ireland.
1x5
The Serpent and the Comforter
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1x6
The White Hart
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The year is 1494 and King Henry is alarmed that the powerful and arrogant Sir William Stanley may be implicated in a plot against his crown.
1x7
A Fly in the Ointment
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Addle-brained Sir John Kendall and his dim-witted nephew devise a ludicrous plan to kill the King with a harmless ointment from phony astrologer.
1x8
The Princely Gift
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Visionary Italian navigator John Cabot has a difficult time convincing Bristol businessmen and the King that his Western voyage to China is practical and profitable.
1x9
Do the Sheep Sin?
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Heavy-handed tax policies lead the peasants of Cornwall to march peacefully in protest on London, but an ambitions nobleman wants to use the pilgrimage to his own advantage.
1x10
The Man Who Never Was
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Commoner Perkin Warbeck, pretender to Henry's throne, finds he's losing support throughout Europe.
1x11
The Strange Shapes of Reality
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Although Perkin Warbeck enjoys only house arrest for his treason through Henry's mercy, he continues to plot against the King.
1x12
The Fledgling
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In order to give his dynasty more credibility, Henry tries to arrange a marriage between his son and the Spanish princess, but their are preconditions.
1x13
The King Without a Face
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The year is now 1501 and Henry is now finally secure on the throne with his promising son Arthur about to marry Catherine of Aragon, however in the shadows tragic events are lying in wait for the King.

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