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 The Cleopatras is an eight-part historical miniseries produced by The BBC in 1983 and written by Philip Mackie (whose previous historical mini-series writing credits included The Caesars for Granada in 1968). The series opens up with one of the Cleopatras (the one most familiar to us—the one who later fell in love with Julius Caesar and Mark Antony) being told the stories of all of the other Cleopatras in her family (her mothers, aunts, grandmothers and great-grandmothers) via a history lesson. After the histories of all of the past Cleopatras have been explored, the story continues to detail the life of the last of the Cleopatras, who committed suicide via asp bite after losing the Battle of Actium.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })The series was lavishly mounted and there were high hopes that it would become the I, Claudius of the 1980s. Critical reception however, was quite mixed. This might have been due to the wry "horror-comic" tone of the series, when another approach might have suited the material better. Or it might have had something to do with the surreal production design and effects, which made copious use of the "video toaster". Or it might have had something to do with the rather anachronistic progressive rock-esque soundtrack. Whatever the reason, the series vanished into the annals of television and to this day still hasn't had a proper DVD release, although it has been uploaded to YouTube. You can catch the first episode here.
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 Affably Evil: Fluter just wants to be a nice guy, be a good ruler and play his flute. Of course, he'll cold-bloodedly off any family members who cross him, but that's pretty par for the course for an Egyptian ruler.
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 The Alcoholic: Pot Belly and Alexander are epic drinkers. Although Mark Antony could probably drink them both under the table.
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 All Girls Want Bad Boys: Part of the reason why Cleopatra III sticks to her husband (and uncle) Pot Belly until his natural death, despite little things like his drunkenly admitting to murdering her brother Eupator while seducing her (or her seducing him) and raping her immediately afterwards when she understandably changes her mind and attempts to push him off. Pot Belly is an unapologetic tyrant who admits openly his devious nature, yet he is notably the only Ptolemy ruler in the series whose consort never attempts to stab him in the back to gain the throne for herself.
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