For the Greater Good

For the Greater Good

1991
📺 1 Season
🎬 3 Episodes
📅 Ended
🌐 EN
⏱️ 60 min/episode
CrimeDrama
While three politicians try to reform Britain’s brutal prison system, the tabloid press publish exposés of their scandalous private lives, leaving their careers in peril.

Seasons

Season 1
1991 • 3 Episodes
Campaigning Tory backbencher Dr Peter Balliol MP finds himself in a crisis of choice between ambition, conscience and a questionable private life.

Cast

Joanne Pearce
Joanne Pearce
Brigid Walkland
Martin Shaw
Martin Shaw
Peter Balliol, MP
Roy Dotrice
Roy Dotrice
Charles Truman, MP
Nicholas Jones
Nicholas Jones
Julian Brind
Nicholas Woodeson
Nicholas Woodeson
Michael Parke-Walsh, MP
Fiona Shaw
Fiona Shaw
Gillian Savage

Crew

Director
Danny Boyle
Writer
G.F. Newman
Producer
Kenith Trodd

Network

BBC Two

Production

BBC

Keywords

prisonpoliticianbritaintabloid