Overview of 'BBC Play of the Month' Season 1

BBC Play of the Month (1965)

Drama

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.

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Release Date: 1965-10-19
Seasons: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16

5.0/10

Country: GB
Language: English
Runtime: 90

Season 1 Episode List

Episode 1 - Luther
Release Date: 1965-10-19
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.
Episode 2 - A Passage to India
Release Date: 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.
Episode 3 - The Joel Brand Story
Release Date: 1965-12-14
Episode 4 - Gordon of Khartoum
Release Date: 1966-01-18
The story of Charles 'Chinese' Gordon, a brilliant but eccentric military commander, and his death defending Khartoum in 1885.
Episode 5 - Where Angels Fear to Tread
Release Date: 1966-02-15
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.
Episode 6 - Lee Oswald: Assassin
Release Date: 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.
Episode 7 - Make Me an Offer
Release Date: 1966-04-12
Antique dealer Charlie yearns to own a beautiful Portland vase.
Episode 8 - Death of a Salesman
Release Date: 1966-05-24
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.
Episode 9 - The Devil's Eggshell
Release Date: 1966-06-28
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...
Episode 10 - The Linden Tree
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Episode 11 - St. Joan
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Episode 12 - You Never Can Tell
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Episode 13 - The Common
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Episode 14 - Days to Come
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Episode 15 - Electra
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Episode 16 - Rasputin
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Episode 17 - Hedda Gabler
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Episode 18 - Luther
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Episode 19 - Ross
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Episode 20 - Girls in Uniform
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Episode 21 - The Male Animal
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Episode 22 - The Heiress
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Episode 23 - London Assurance
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Episode 24 - Tartuffe
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Episode 25 - Kean
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Episode 26 - King Oedipus
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Episode 27 - Charley's Aunt
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Episode 28 - Corridors of Power
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Episode 29 - Look Back in Anger
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Episode 30 - The Recruiting Officer
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Episode 31 - The Wood Demon
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Episode 32 - The Seagull
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Episode 33 - A Passage to India
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Episode 34 - The Moon and Sixpence
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Episode 35 - Uncle Vanya
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Episode 36 - The Little Minister
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Episode 37 - I Have Been Here Before
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Episode 38 - Death of a Salesman
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Episode 39 - Platonov
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Episode 40 - Dangerous Corner
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Episode 41 - Heartbreak House
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Episode 42 - The Skin Game
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Episode 43 - Strife
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Episode 44 - French Without Tears
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Episode 45 - The Caucasian Chalk Circle
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Episode 46 - The Rivals
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Episode 47 - Lady Windermere's Fan
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Episode 48 - The Tempest
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Episode 49 - An Ideal Husband
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Episode 50 - King Lear
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Episode 51 - The Wild Duck
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Episode 52 - The Deep Blue Sea
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Episode 53 - Ghosts
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Episode 54 - Separate Tables
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Episode 55 - Lee Oswald--Assassin
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Episode 56 - The Cabinet Papers
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Episode 57 - The Ambassadors
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Episode 58 - Hello and Goodbye
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Episode 59 - Relatively Speaking
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Episode 60 - The Devil's Eggshell
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Episode 61 - On Approval
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Episode 62 - The Gay Lord Quex
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Episode 63 - The Old Ladies
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Episode 64 - Noel Coward's Design for Living
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Episode 65 - Little Eyolf
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Episode 66 - Man and Superman
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Episode 67 - Trilby
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Episode 68 - Summer and Smoke
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Episode 69 - The Parachute
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Episode 70 - The Changeling
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Episode 71 - The Apple Cart
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Episode 72 - Three Sisters
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Episode 73 - Gordon of Khartoum
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Episode 74 - The Winslow Boy
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Episode 75 - Flint
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Episode 76 - Marya
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Episode 77 - Mary Queen of Scots
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Episode 78 - The Adventures of Don Quixote
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Episode 79 - Act of Betrayal
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Episode 80 - Loyalties
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Episode 81 - Candida
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Episode 82 - Stephen D
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Episode 83 - The Importance of Being Earnest
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Episode 84 - The School for Scandal
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Episode 85 - Candide
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Episode 86 - In Good King Charles's Golden Days
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Episode 87 - The Country Wife
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Episode 88 - Cyrano de Bergerac
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Episode 89 - Maigret at Bay
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Episode 90 - The Seagull
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Episode 91 - The Voysey Inheritance
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Episode 92 - Where Angels Fear to Tread
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Episode 93 - When We Are Married
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Episode 94 - Robinson Crusoe
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Episode 95 - Five Finger Exercise
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Episode 96 - Waters of the Moon
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Episode 97 - The Magistrate
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Episode 98 - The Making of Jericho
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Episode 99 - The Cherry Orchard
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Episode 100 - Pygmalion
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Episode 101 - Love's Labour's Lost
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Episode 102 - The Marquis
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Episode 103 - The Joel Brand Story
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Episode 104 - Waste
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Episode 105 - Romeo and Juliet
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Episode 106 - The Critic
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Episode 107 - Trelawny of the Wells
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Episode 108 - Hay Fever
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Episode 109 - Don Juan in Hell
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Episode 110 - Danton's Death
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Episode 111 - Howards End
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Episode 112 - The Chester Mystery Plays
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Episode 113 - The Merchant of Venice
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Episode 114 - A Room with a View
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Episode 115 - The Corn Is Green
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Episode 116 - Julius Caesar
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Episode 117 - Make Me an Offer
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Episode 118 - The Wings of the Dove
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Episode 119 - The Beaux' Stratagem
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Episode 120 - Mrs. Warren's Profession
Release Date: 1972-10-03
A very proper young woman is horrified to discover not only that her mother once worked as a prostitute in order to support her, but that she later became a whorehouse madam rather than give up the business.