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 8 Episodes
An Indian doctor meets a willful and arrogant heiress stuck in a dull marriage in order to satisfy the conditions of her…
Hedda Gabler is a beautiful woman married to the solid and respectable academic George Tesman. Then an old flame, the dr…
Resolving the riddle of the Sphinx makes Oedipus the king of Thebes, but he also resolves another mystery — and it destr…
A widow weds a magistrate and makes her 19-year-old son act as a boy.
A self-proclaimed 'knight' and his hapless squire travel the Spanish countryside, attacking 'giants' that are really win…
Candide falls in love with the beautiful but materialistic Cunegonde. Her barron father doesn't approve of the affair so…
When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guest…
Grusha sacrifices her happiness and dignity for the sake of an abandoned child she takes as her own.
