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BBC Play of the Month

Play of the Month is a BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays which were 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; the producer most associated with the Play of the Month was Cedric Messina. Some of the 121 episodes are missing from the archives, having been junked in the 1960s and 1970s. Unless stated otherwise, the indication that the play is "lost" is taken from the lostshows.com website page as of 25 May 2013.

Genre: Drama,

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Type: tv

Season: 16

Episode: N/A

Duration: 90 minutes

Release: 1965-10-19

Rating: 5

1"Luther"

1965-10-19

2"A Passage to India"

1965-11-16

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.

3"The Joel Brand Story"

1965-12-14

4"Gordon of Khartoum"

1966-01-18

5"Where Angels Fear to Tread"

1966-02-15

6"Lee Oswald - Assassin"

1966-03-15

'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)

7"Make Me an Offer"

1966-04-12

8"Death of a Salesman"

1966-05-24

9"The Devil's Eggshell"

1966-06-28

1"Defection! The Case of Colonel Petrov"

1966-09-27

2"Days to Come"

1966-10-25

3"Corridors of Power"

1966-11-22

4"The Making of Jericho"

1966-12-20

5"The Cabinet Makers"

1967-03-14

1"Girls in Uniform"

1967-10-15

2"The Moon and Sixpence"

1967-11-12

3"Romeo and Juliet"

1967-12-03

Alan Cooke's TV adaptation of the classic shakespeare play, starring Kika Markham and Hywel Bennet as the star-crossed lovers of Verona.

4"The Parachute"

1968-01-21

5"Cyrano de Bergerac"

1968-02-11

1968-03-17

1968-04-14

1968-05-12

1968-06-09

1968-07-07

1968-08-04

1968-09-01

1968-10-13

1968-11-17

4"Waters of the Moon"

1968-12-24

5"Mary Queen of Scots"

1969-01-12

6"Maigret at Bay"

1969-02-09

7"Relatively Speaking"

1969-03-02

8"Julius Caesar"

1969-04-13

9"An Ideal Husband"

1969-05-11

Adaptation of the classic Oscar Wilde play involving blackmail and political corruption. Starring Margaret Leighton, Jeremy Brett and Susan Hampshire.

1969-10-12

1969-11-23

1969-12-14

1970-01-18

Anton Chekhov's famous drama on the lives of sisters Irena, Masha and Olga in a provincial Russian town. Translated by Elisaveta Fen.

5"In Good King Charles's Golden Days"

1970-02-15

6"Separate Tables"

1970-03-15

A play by Terrence Rattigan. The stories of several people are told as they stay at a seaside hotel in Bournemouth.

1970-04-19

1970-05-15

1970-09-20

1970-10-18

1970-11-08

4"Five Finger Exercise"

1970-12-24

1971-01-03

1971-02-21

1971-03-21

1971-04-25

1971-05-23

1"A Midsummer Night's Dream"

1971-09-26

2"Rasputin"

1971-10-24

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.

3"Tartuffe"

1971-11-28

4"The Cherry Orchard"

1971-12-19

5"Summer and Smoke"

1972-01-23

6"Stephen D"

1972-02-20

7"The Merchant of Venice"

1972-04-16

8"Lady Windermere's Fan"

1972-05-14

9"The Playboy of the Western World"

1972-06-11

10"She Stoops to Conquer"

1972-07-23

11"Trelawny of the "Wells""

1972-08-13

1"The Millionairess"

1972-09-25

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.

2"Hedda Gabler"

1972-10-20

3"King Oedipus"

1972-11-24

4"The Magistrate"

1972-12-20

5"The Adventures of Don Quixote"

1973-01-07

6"Candide"

1973-02-16

7"A Room with a View"

1973-04-15

8"The Caucasian Chalk Circle"

1973-05-16

9"The Duchess of Malfi"

1973-07-18

10"Peer Gynt"

1973-08-22

1"The Love Girl and the Innocent"

1973-09-16

2"The Common"

1973-10-27

3"The Recruiting Officer"

1973-10-18

4"Pygmalion"

1973-12-16

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

5"The Importance of Being Earnest"

1974-02-17

6"The Changeling"

1974-01-20

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.

7"The Deep Blue Sea"

1974-03-17

8"Mrs. Warren's Profession"

1974-04-21

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.

9"The Skin Game"

1974-05-19

The rivalry between a wealthy businessman and his lower-class, self-made rival gets very personal indeed.

1"The Linden Tree"

1974-09-08

2"Electra"

1974-10-24

3"The Wood Demon"

1974-10-17

Adaptation of the classic play by Chekhov, starring Ian Holm. A lunch party gathers to celebrate Leo Zheltukhin's birthday.

4"Robinson Crusoe"

1974-11-29

5"The Apple Cart"

1975-01-19

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.

6"The School for Scandal"

1975-02-16

7"King Lear"

1975-03-23

8"The Shadow of a Gunman"

1975-04-20

9"Strife"

1975-05-18

1"Chips with Everything"

1975-09-28

2"The Little Minister"

1975-11-02

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.

3"Love's Labour's Lost"

1975-12-14

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.

4"When We Are Married"

1975-12-29

5"Trilby"

1976-01-24

6"Loyalties"

1976-02-28

7"The Chester Mystery Cycle"

1976-04-18

8"French Without Tears"

1976-05-16

Play by Terence Rattigan. The comic, sometimes painful, fallings-out of five young male English students in France.

1"The Picture of Dorian Gray"

1976-09-19

2"London Assurance"

1976-10-10

3"Look Back in Anger"

1976-11-21

4"The Winslow Boy"

1977-01-16

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?

5"The Country Wife"

1977-02-13

Play by William Wycherley. Pinchwife brings his simple young wife Margery to London for his sister's wedding.

6"The Ambassadors"

1977-03-13

7"Heartbreak House"

1977-05-19

1"You Never Can Tell"

1977-10-30

2"Waste"

1977-12-04

3"Flint"