The Chiltern Hundreds

About the show

Set during the 1945 general election, Tony, son of the Earl of Lister, loses his family’s long-held seat to Labour candidate Cleghorn. When Cleghorn enters the Lords, Tony’s American fiancée secretly backs the family butler Beecham as Conservative candidate; amid changing party loyalties and broken engagements, Beecham wins the seat and later returns to service after applying for the Chiltern Hundreds.