The BBC Television Shakespeare

Name: The BBC Television Shakespeare
Rating: 8

S01E07· The First Part of King Henry the Fourth with the Life and Death of Henry Surnamed Hotspur

· 147m

Henry Bolingbroke has now been crowned King of England, but faces a rebellion headed by the embittered Earl of Northumberland and his son (nicknamed 'Hotspur'). Henry's son Hal, the Prince of Wales, has thrown over life at court in favour of heavy drinking and petty theft in the company of a debauched elderly knight, Sir John Falstaff. Hal must extricate himself from some legal problems, redeem himself in his father's eyes and help suppress the uprising.