BBC Play of the Month (1965)
Synopsis
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.
First Air Date: 1965-10-19
Last Air Date: 1983-09-12
Number of Seasons: 16
Number of Episodes: 128
Created By: James MacTaggart
Networks: BBC One
Top Cast
- Charles Gray as Charles Strickland
- Eric Porter as Cyrano de Bergerac
- Donald Pickering as Ronald Utterword
- Jeremy Brett as Vicount Goring
- John Gielgud as Chorus
- Lally Bowers as Lavinia Penniman
- Stephanie Bidmead as Aunt
- Michael Hordern as The Devil
- Celia Johnson as Sheila
- Robert Stephens as Trigorin
Seasons
Season 1 (1965)
No overview available for this season.
Episodes:
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Ep. 1: Luther
During the early 16th century, idealistic German monk Martin Luther, disgusted by the materialism in the church, begins the dialogue that will lead to the Protestant Reformation.
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Ep. 2: A Passage to India
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.
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Ep. 3: The Joel Brand Story
No overview for this episode.
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Ep. 4: Gordon of Khartoum
The story of Charles 'Chinese' Gordon, a brilliant but eccentric military commander, and his death defending Khartoum in 1885.
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Ep. 5: Where Angels Fear to Tread
After a rich Edwardian widow impulsively marries a handsome but poor Tuscan dentist and dies in childbirth, her English in-laws try to gain custody of the baby.
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Ep. 6: Lee Oswald: Assassin
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.
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Ep. 7: Make Me an Offer
Antique dealer Charlie yearns to own a beautiful Portland vase.
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Ep. 8: Death of a Salesman
Willy Loman is an over-the-hill salesman who faces a personal turning point when he loses his job and attempts to make peace with his family: Willy's long-suffering wife Linda, and Biff and Happy, his troubled sons and his life.
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Ep. 9: The Devil's Eggshell
The discovery of mysterious egg-shaped objects at the sites of a series of disasters lead people to believe that we are being attacked by alien beings, but it is revealed to be a conspiracy hatched by a team of scientists intent on using an alien menace to unite the world. But their scheme backfires with fatal consequences...
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