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House of Cards (1990)

TV-14 War & Politics, Comedy, Drama

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Frustrated at a new moderate Conservative government and deprived of a promotion to a senior position, chief whip Francis Urquhart prepares a meticulous plot to bring down the Prime Minister then to take his place.

Andrew Davies

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Ian Richardson

Francis Urquhart

4 Episodes
Susannah Harker

Mattie Storin

4 Episodes
Malcolm Tierney

Patrick Woolton

4 Episodes
Alphonsia Emmanuel

Penny Guy

4 Episodes
Diane Fletcher

Elizabeth Urquhart

4 Episodes
William Chubb

John Krajewski

4 Episodes
Isabelle Amyes

Anne Collingridge

4 Episodes
Nicholas Selby

Lord Billsborough

4 Episodes
David Lyon

Henry Collingridge

4 Episodes
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Miniseries

92%

1990 • 4 Episodes

Season 1 of House of Cards premiered on November 18, 1990.

Part 4

(1x4, December 9, 1990) Season Finale

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A review by CinemaSerf

90%

Written by CinemaSerf on June 6, 2024

As political dramas go, they just don't come any better than this - and Ian Richardson proves a master as an epitome of an ambitious schemer that even Machiavelli would have been proud of. He is "Urquhart", the chief whip of a government under new leadership. It's "Collingwood" (David Lyon) who takes the top job, but when he decides against promoting this local secret-keeper, he makes quite a mistake. Fuelled by his conceivably even more ambitious wife "Elizabeth" (Diane Fletcher) and taking advantage of the naive and malleable young journalist "Mattie" (Susannah Harker) he starts on a wonderfu... read the rest.

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