The Governor
Historical television series about Sir George Gray
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The Governor is a 1977 New Zealand historical television miniseries that chronicles the multi-decade career and complex legacy of Sir George Grey, who served two terms as Governor of New Zealand, as well as Prime Minister
1.The Reverend Traitor
06-10-19771h 30mThe first episode of landmark 1977 historical drama The Governor is a one and a half hour epic. Soon after signing the Treaty of Waitangi, charismatic Ngāpuhi chief Hōne Heke (Geor...
2.No Way to Treat a Lady
13-10-19771h 16mThe second episode of Aotearoa's first blockbuster drama — in subject, budget and reception — focusses on Governor Grey and Lady Eliza's rocky and sometimes scandalous marriage. Th...
3.The Mutinous Lieutenant
20-10-19771h 15mLike the previous episode of The Governor, this instalment opens across the ditch, with dogged explorer Edward Eyre (Jeremy Stephens) on an arduous walk across the central Australi...
4.He Iwi Tahi Tatou / Now We Are One People
27-10-19771h 15mIn The Governor's fourth episode, war looms in the Waikato as Māori iwi band together. Peacemaker and kingmaker Wiremu Tāmihana (Don Selwyn) agonises over the right course of actio...
5.The Lame Seagull
03-11-19771h 16mThe Governor was a six-part TV epic that examined the life of Governor George Grey (Corin Redgrave). This episode arguably best lived up to the blockbuster scale and revisionist am...
6.To the Death
10-11-19771h 16mThe final episode of The Governor offers a portrait of a once powerful man in fitful decline. An ageing Sir George Grey (Corin Redgrave) engineers a career comeback, but his 'radic...
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