全明星阵容为这部1970年翻拍的威廉·莎士比亚经典戏剧增色不少，该剧描绘了尤利乌斯·凯撒在三月十五日遇刺的故事，以及由此引发的暗杀者领导的派系与马克·安东尼领导的派系之间的战争。

The series is set in a dystopian future in which Britain is under the grip of the Home Office's Department of Public Control (PCD), a tyrannically oppressive bureaucracy riding roughshod over the population's civil liberties. Edward Woodward plays Jim Kyle, a journalist on the last independent newspaper called The Star, who turns renegade and begins to fight the PCD covertly. The officials of the PCD, in turn, try to provide proof of Kyle's subversive activities.