Aired: 9/15/1996
Seventeen years old Cecil Rhodes joins his brother in the rush for diamonds in southern Africa, where he outwits his fellow prospectors, reorganizes the workforce and forms a breath-taking vision to extend the British Empire from the Cape to Cairo.
Aired: 9/22/1996
Rhodes invites a young clerk to oversee his business interests while he takes his seat in the Cape parliament.
Aired: 9/29/1996
Rhodes outwits his greatest rival, Barney Barnato, with a brilliant scheme.
Aired: 10/6/1996
Has Rhodes's scheme to outwit Lobengula backfired?
Aired: 10/13/1996
Determined to expand north in search of gold, Rhodes orders his pioneer column, a private army, to enter Mashonaland.
Aired: 10/20/1996
Provoked beyond endurance by Dr. Jameson, Lobengula finally wages war on Rhodes's private army.
Aired: 10/27/1996
Rhodes conspires against Kruger and the Boers. Meanwhile, trouble is brewing in Rhodesia and Princess Radziwill continues to gather proof of Rhodes's past crimes.
Aired: 11/3/1996
Rhodes has to battle against his two greatest enemies - his health, which is failing fast, and Princess Radziwill, who is determined to hound him to the last.