Series

BBC Play of the Month

1965 · 16 seasons · 128 episodes · Ended · BBC One

Drama

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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.

Episodes

  • S01E01Luther1965-10-19

    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.

  • S01E02A Passage to India1965-11-16110m

    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.

  • S01E03The Joel Brand Story1965-12-1490m
  • S01E04Gordon of Khartoum1966-01-18

    The story of Charles 'Chinese' Gordon, a brilliant but eccentric military commander, and his death defending Khartoum in 1885.

  • S01E05Where Angels Fear to Tread1966-02-15

    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.

  • S01E06Lee Oswald: Assassin1966-03-1590m

    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.

  • S01E07Make Me an Offer1966-04-12

    Antique dealer Charlie yearns to own a beautiful Portland vase.

  • S01E08Death of a Salesman1966-05-24

    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.

  • S01E09The Devil's Eggshell1966-06-28

    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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