First broadcast 8th January 1970.

Queen Catherine is dead and now Anne Boleyn is Queen, but now two years after her marriage her promise to give Henry a son remains unfulfilled and the outcome will lead more than one person to the scaffold.

Anne Boleyn - Dorothy Tutin
Henry VIII - Keith Michell
Mark Smeaton - Michael Osborne
Lady Rochford - Sheila Burrell
Lady Boleyn - Hilary Mason
George Viscount Rochford - Jonathan Newth
Thomas Cromwell - Wolfe Morris
Archbishop Cranmer - Bernard Hepton
Duke of Norfolk - Patrick Troughton
Sir Henry Norreys - Christopher Hancock
Earl of Surrey - Christopher Beeching
Armourer - Arnold Peters
Jane Seymour - Anne Stallybrass
Sir William Kingston - Robert Cawdron
Lady Kingston - Patricia Heneghan
Sir Christopher Hales - Peter Cellier