Original title
BBC Play of the Month
Released
10/19/1965
Origin country
GB
Genre
Drama
Production companies
BBC
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
16
Number of episodes
128
A BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles. The series was transmitted from October 1965 to September 1983.
Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator.
'The life of Lee Harvey Oswald, the man who shot President John F. Kennedy, as reported to the Warren Commission enquiry into the circumstances of the assassination.' (BFI Screenonline)
Alan Cooke's TV adaptation of the classic shakespeare play, starring Kika Markham and Hywel Bennet as the star-crossed lovers of Verona.
Adaptation of the classic Oscar Wilde play involving blackmail and political corruption. Starring Margaret Leighton, Jeremy Brett and Susan Hampshire.
Anton Chekhov's famous drama on the lives of sisters Irena, Masha and Olga in a provincial Russian town. Translated by Elisaveta Fen.
A play by Terrence Rattigan. The stories of several people are told as they stay at a seaside hotel in Bournemouth.
Robert Stephens stars in a drama about the mysterious peasant monk who held enormous influence at the Russian court for over a decade, before his murder in 1916.
Play by Bernard Shaw. An Indian doctor meets Epifania, a willful and arrogant heiress who is stuck in a dull marriage in order to satisfy the conditions of her father's will.
A play by George Bernard Shaw, starring James Villiers as the egotistical Professor Henry Higgins and Lynn Redgrave as the east end flower girl Eliza Doolittle
Beatrice-Joanna is betrothed to Lord Alonzo de Piraquo but is in love with Alsemero. She hires her father's manservant, De Flores, to kill Alonzo but after he has done so, she realises De Flores wants her as a reward. Stanley Baker and Helen Mirren in the lead roles.
Written by George Bernard Shaw in 1893, and first performed in London in 1902. The play is about a former prostitute, now a madam, who attempts to come to terms with her disapproving daughter.
The rivalry between a wealthy businessman and his lower-class, self-made rival gets very personal indeed.
Adaptation of the classic play by Chekhov, starring Ian Holm. A lunch party gathers to celebrate Leo Zheltukhin's birthday.
Play by Bernard Shaw. The plot follows King Magnus as he spars with Prime Minister Proteus and his cabinet, who seek to strip the monarchy of its remaining political influence.
Ian Ogilvy and Helen Mirren star in this adaptation of JM Barries’ play, set in rural 1840s Scotland. A local priest falls in love with a gypsy girl who incites a Luddite riot.
The King of Navarre and three of his Lords swear to avoid women for three years. But the unexpected arrival of the Princess of France and her Ladies changes matters.
Play by Terence Rattigan. The comic, sometimes painful, fallings-out of five young male English students in France.
A play by Terence Rattigan. The term at Osborne Naval College is not yet over. Why, therefore, has cadet Ronnie Winslow returned home? And why is he hiding in the garden?
Play by William Wycherley. Pinchwife brings his simple young wife Margery to London for his sister's wedding.
Noel Coward's play about Gilda and her attempts to share her love with two men while marrying a third.
Dangerous Corner is a TV episode of BBC Play of the Month written by J.B. Priestley and directed by James Ormerod.
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