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Gunpowder, Treason & Plot (2004)
1 season · 0 episodes~100 min/epEndedDrama
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Award-winning writer Jimmy McGovern and film director Gillies MacKinnon bring the story behind the Gunpowder Plot to BBC TWO in two original films exploring the lives of Mary Queen of Scots and her son James 1st.The first concentrates on Mary's short-lived reign and the battles she has to fight with both her Protestant subjects and the English Queen, Elizabeth 1st. She conspires with the Earl of Bothwell to assassinate her miscreant husband Lord Darnley.The story continues with her son James VI of Scotland (who, on Elizabeth's death, became James 1st of England), and the plot against his reign masterminded by the influential Catholic Robert Catesby - a plot planned by Guy Fawkes to blow up the Houses of Parliament in order to rid the nation of an oppressive Protestant monarch.
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Network: BBC Two
Clémence Poésy
as Mary, Queen of Scots
Catherine McCormack
as Elizabeth I of England
Kevin McKidd
as James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell
Robert Carlyle
as James VI of Scotland
Michael Fassbender
as Guy Fawkes
Richard Coyle
as Robert Catesby
Emil Hostina
as Bothwell's Lieutenant
Daniela Nardini
as Lady Huntly
Tim McInnerny
as Cecil
Emilia Fox
as Lady Margaret
Gunpowder, Treason & Plot has 1 season totalling 0 episodes, and the series has concluded.
The main cast of Gunpowder, Treason & Plot includes Clémence Poésy (Mary, Queen of Scots), Catherine McCormack (Elizabeth I of England), Kevin McKidd (James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell), Robert Carlyle (James VI of Scotland), Michael Fassbender (Guy Fawkes).