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📺 "A God in Colchester"
Original Airdate: 29 November 1976
Rome, AD 47–48. Claudius leads his troops in an invasion of Britain. Messalina's sexual excesses lead her to challenge the well-known prostitute Scylla to a contest to see who can take the most men in an evening; Messalina wins easily. Claudius returns in triumph, but is devastated to learn that Herod has organized a rebellion in the eastern provinces against his rule. Herod believes that he is the Jewish Messiah, but dies before completing his plans, begging Claudius to forgive him. Messalina takes Gaius Silius as her lover.
They divorce their respective spouses and marry, thinking that Rome will rally around them and proclaim them rulers. Forced to act, Claudius' servants Pallas and Narcissus enlist Calpurnia to tell the Emperor the truth. Claudius believes them, and the conspirators are arrested and killed. As Claudius mourns the fact that all whom he cared for are gone, he learns that the Britons have dedicated a temple to him in Colchester, making him a god.
