

BBC Play of the Month
1965 · 16 seasons · 128 episodes · Ended · BBC One
Drama
TMDB 5.2 · 8 votes
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...
Cast
Charles GrayCharles Strickland, Gayev, Antonio, Adrian Blenderbland, Lord Augustus, Richard Greatham, Field-Marshall Allenby, Mr. Beebe, Sir Harcourt Courtly
Eric PorterCyrano de Bergerac, Maj. Pollock / John Malcolm, Jack Tanner, Councillor Albert Parker, Arthur Winslow, Macbeth
Donald PickeringSoliony, Préfet de Police, Ronald Utterword, Hotel Manager, George Farrant, Monty Cave
Jeremy BrettVicount Goring, Joseph Surface, Captain Jack Absolute, Lord Berowne, George, Duke of Bristol, Basil Hallward
John GielgudCharles II, Capt. Shotover, Lord Burleigh, Chorus, The Inquisitor, Lord Henry 'Harry' Wotton- Lally BowersMiss Prism, Mrs. Higgins, Mrs. Telfer, Miss Lavish, The Dowager Empress, Lavinia Penniman
Stephanie BidmeadMaudie, Miss Ronberry, Aunt, Lady Capulet, Mrs. Sorby
Michael HordernThe Devil, God, Mr. Posket, Lear, Tartuffe
Celia JohnsonJudith Bliss, Sheila, Mrs. Alving, Eloise, Madame Ranyevskaya
Derek GodfreyGregers Werle, Sir Isaac Newton, Orestes' Tutor, Lord Darlington, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester
Robert StephensGrigory Rasputin, Prince of Wales, Trigorin, Oberon, Mark Antony
Alan BadelGeneral Charles 'Chinese' Gordon, Sir Fretful Plagiary, Sir Robert Morton, Father, Svengali
