The King Chronicle

Season

1988

Canada

The life and career of the eccentric and enduring Prime Minister of Canada, William Lyon Mackenzie King.

Episode List

S1 • E1

Mackenzie King and the Unseen Hand

Canadian Prime Minister W.L. Mackenzie King's childhood and early career are chronicled. Believing he is a child of destiny, drawn to greatness by "an unseen hand," King begins the meteoric rise to power in the civil service and later in the Liberal Party of Canada. By the end of this episode, however, his political future appears uncertain.

S1 • E2

Mackenzie King and the Great Beyond

Having survived the Customs Scandal, Canadian politician Mackenzie King finds himself in yet another bitter struggle, the King-Byng Affair. After his loss to Bennett's Conservatives in the 1930 election, King secretly turns to spiritualism in order to make contact with his mother and others of the "great beyond."

S1 • E3

Mackenzie King and the Zombie Army

This final episode of the life of Canadian Prime Minister W.L. Mackenzie King begins with the divisive Conscription Crisis. Despite his assurances that conscription would not be implemented, conditions in Europe force King to hold a plebiscite on the issue. King remains in office until his retirement in 1948. A lonely man, he lives out his remaining years at Kingsmere.