BBC Play of the Month
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.
Season 12 Episodes
E1
A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to al…
Grace has agreed to marry Sir Harcourt Courtly in return for his financial support of her family. At a house party in he…
A disillusioned, angry university graduate comes to terms with his grudge against middle-class life and values.
E4
In pre-WWI England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents raise a political f…
Pinchwife brings his simple young wife to London for his sister's wedding. Lest she falls prey to the town's temptations…
Strether is sent to Europe to rescue a young American from the charms of a mysterious French beauty. But he is soon unde…
On the eve of World War I, Ellie Dunn, her father, and her fiancé are invited to one of Hesione Hushabye's infamous dinn…