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BBC Play of the Month

All Episodes 1965 - 1983

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  • 1965-10-18T23:00:00Z
  • 1h
  • 5d 22h 55m (128 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Drama
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.

128 episodes

Series Premiere

1965-10-18T23:00:00Z

1x01 Luther

Series Premiere

1x01 Luther

  • 1965-10-18T23:00:00Z1h

1965-11-16T00:00:00Z

1x02 A Passage to India

1x02 A Passage to India

  • 1965-11-16T00:00:00Z1h 50m

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.

1965-12-14T00:00:00Z

1x03 The Joel Brand Story

1x03 The Joel Brand Story

  • 1965-12-14T00:00:00Z1h

1966-01-18T00:00:00Z

1x04 Gordon of Khartoum

1x04 Gordon of Khartoum

  • 1966-01-18T00:00:00Z1h

1x05 Where Angels Fear to Tread

  • 1966-02-15T00:00:00Z1h

1966-03-15T00:00:00Z

1x06 Lee Oswald - Assassin

1x06 Lee Oswald - Assassin

  • 1966-03-15T00:00:00Z1h

1966-04-11T23:00:00Z

1x07 Make Me an Offer

1x07 Make Me an Offer

  • 1966-04-11T23:00:00Z1h

1966-05-23T23:00:00Z

1x08 Death of a Salesman

1x08 Death of a Salesman

  • 1966-05-23T23:00:00Z1h

Season Finale

1966-06-27T23:00:00Z

1x09 The Devil's Eggshell

Season Finale

1x09 The Devil's Eggshell

  • 1966-06-27T23:00:00Z1h

Season Premiere

1966-09-26T23:00:00Z

2x01 Defection! The Case of Colonel Petrov

Season Premiere

2x01 Defection! The Case of Colonel Petrov

  • 1966-09-26T23:00:00Z1h

1966-10-25T00:00:00Z

2x02 Days to Come

2x02 Days to Come

  • 1966-10-25T00:00:00Z1h

1966-11-22T00:00:00Z

2x03 Corridors of Power

2x03 Corridors of Power

  • 1966-11-22T00:00:00Z1h

1966-12-20T00:00:00Z

2x04 The Making of Jericho

2x04 The Making of Jericho

  • 1966-12-20T00:00:00Z1h

Season Finale

1967-03-14T00:00:00Z

2x05 The Cabinet Makers

Season Finale

2x05 The Cabinet Makers

  • 1967-03-14T00:00:00Z1h

Season Premiere

1967-10-14T23:00:00Z

3x01 Girls in Uniform

Season Premiere

3x01 Girls in Uniform

  • 1967-10-14T23:00:00Z1h

1967-11-12T00:00:00Z

3x02 The Moon and Sixpence

3x02 The Moon and Sixpence

  • 1967-11-12T00:00:00Z1h

1967-12-03T00:00:00Z

3x03 Romeo and Juliet

3x03 Romeo and Juliet

  • 1967-12-03T00:00:00Z2h 5m

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

1968-01-21T00:00:00Z

3x04 The Parachute

3x04 The Parachute

  • 1968-01-21T00:00:00Z1h 17m

1968-02-11T00:00:00Z

3x05 Cyrano de Bergerac

3x05 Cyrano de Bergerac

  • 1968-02-11T00:00:00Z1h

1968-03-16T23:00:00Z

3x06 Ghosts

3x06 Ghosts

  • 1968-03-16T23:00:00Z1h

1968-04-13T23:00:00Z

3x07 The Corn Is Green

3x07 The Corn Is Green

  • 1968-04-13T23:00:00Z1h

1968-05-11T23:00:00Z

3x08 The Tempest

3x08 The Tempest

  • 1968-05-11T23:00:00Z1h

1968-06-08T23:00:00Z

3x09 The Old Ladies

3x09 The Old Ladies

  • 1968-06-08T23:00:00Z1h

1968-07-06T23:00:00Z

3x10 Man and Superman

3x10 Man and Superman

  • 1968-07-06T23:00:00Z1h

Season Finale

1968-08-03T23:00:00Z

3x11 Hay Fever

Season Finale

3x11 Hay Fever

  • 1968-08-03T23:00:00Z1h

Season Premiere

1968-08-31T23:00:00Z

4x01 St. Joan

Season Premiere

4x01 St. Joan

  • 1968-08-31T23:00:00Z1h

1968-10-12T23:00:00Z

4x02 The Male Animal

4x02 The Male Animal

  • 1968-10-12T23:00:00Z1h

1968-11-16T23:00:00Z

4x03 The Seagull

4x03 The Seagull

  • 1968-11-16T23:00:00Z1h

1968-12-23T23:00:00Z

4x04 Waters of the Moon

4x04 Waters of the Moon

  • 1968-12-23T23:00:00Z1h

1969-01-11T23:00:00Z

4x05 Mary Queen of Scots

4x05 Mary Queen of Scots

  • 1969-01-11T23:00:00Z1h

1969-02-08T23:00:00Z

4x06 Maigret at Bay

4x06 Maigret at Bay

  • 1969-02-08T23:00:00Z1h

1969-03-01T23:00:00Z

4x07 Relatively Speaking

4x07 Relatively Speaking

  • 1969-03-01T23:00:00Z1h

1969-04-12T23:00:00Z

4x08 Julius Caesar

4x08 Julius Caesar

  • 1969-04-12T23:00:00Z1h

Season Finale

1969-05-10T23:00:00Z

4x09 An Ideal Husband

Season Finale

4x09 An Ideal Husband

  • 1969-05-10T23:00:00Z1h 29m

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

Season Premiere

1969-10-11T23:00:00Z

5x01 The Heiress

Season Premiere

5x01 The Heiress

  • 1969-10-11T23:00:00Z1h

1969-11-22T23:00:00Z

5x02 Charley's Aunt

5x02 Charley's Aunt

  • 1969-11-22T23:00:00Z1h

1969-12-13T23:00:00Z

5x03 The Marquis

5x03 The Marquis

  • 1969-12-13T23:00:00Z1h

1970-01-17T23:00:00Z

5x04 Three Sisters

5x04 Three Sisters

  • 1970-01-17T23:00:00Z2h 10m

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

1970-03-14T23:00:00Z

5x06 Separate Tables

5x06 Separate Tables

  • 1970-03-14T23:00:00Z1h 35m

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

1970-04-18T23:00:00Z

5x07 Howards End

5x07 Howards End

  • 1970-04-18T23:00:00Z1h

Season Finale

1970-05-14T23:00:00Z

5x08 The Rivals

Season Finale

5x08 The Rivals

  • 1970-05-14T23:00:00Z1h

Season Premiere

1970-09-19T23:00:00Z

6x01 Macbeth

Season Premiere

6x01 Macbeth

  • 1970-09-19T23:00:00Z2h

1970-10-17T23:00:00Z

6x02 Ross

6x02 Ross

  • 1970-10-17T23:00:00Z1h

1970-11-07T23:00:00Z

6x03 Uncle Vanya

6x03 Uncle Vanya

  • 1970-11-07T23:00:00Z1h

1970-12-23T23:00:00Z

6x04 Five Finger Exercise

6x04 Five Finger Exercise

  • 1970-12-23T23:00:00Z1h

1971-01-02T23:00:00Z

6x05 Act of Betrayal

6x05 Act of Betrayal

  • 1971-01-02T23:00:00Z1h

1971-02-20T23:00:00Z

6x06 Candida

6x06 Candida

  • 1971-02-20T23:00:00Z1h

1971-03-20T23:00:00Z

6x07 The Wild Duck

6x07 The Wild Duck

  • 1971-03-20T23:00:00Z1h

1971-04-24T23:00:00Z

6x08 Don Juan in Hell

6x08 Don Juan in Hell

  • 1971-04-24T23:00:00Z1h

Season Finale

1971-05-22T23:00:00Z

6x09 Platonov

Season Finale

6x09 Platonov

  • 1971-05-22T23:00:00Z1h

Season Premiere

1971-09-25T23:00:00Z

7x01 A Midsummer Night's Dream

Season Premiere

7x01 A Midsummer Night's Dream

  • 1971-09-25T23:00:00Z1h

1971-10-23T23:00:00Z

7x02 Rasputin

7x02 Rasputin

  • 1971-10-23T23:00:00Z1h 55m

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.

1971-11-28T00:00:00Z

7x03 Tartuffe

7x03 Tartuffe

  • 1971-11-28T00:00:00Z1h

1971-12-19T00:00:00Z

7x04 The Cherry Orchard

7x04 The Cherry Orchard

  • 1971-12-19T00:00:00Z1h

1972-01-23T00:00:00Z

7x05 Summer and Smoke

7x05 Summer and Smoke

  • 1972-01-23T00:00:00Z1h

1972-02-20T00:00:00Z

7x06 Stephen D

7x06 Stephen D

  • 1972-02-20T00:00:00Z1h

1972-04-15T23:00:00Z

7x07 The Merchant of Venice

7x07 The Merchant of Venice

  • 1972-04-15T23:00:00Z1h

1972-05-13T23:00:00Z

7x08 Lady Windermere's Fan

7x08 Lady Windermere's Fan

  • 1972-05-13T23:00:00Z1h

1972-07-22T23:00:00Z

7x10 She Stoops to Conquer

7x10 She Stoops to Conquer

  • 1972-07-22T23:00:00Z1h

Season Finale

1972-08-12T23:00:00Z

7x11 Trelawny of the "Wells"

Season Finale

7x11 Trelawny of the "Wells"

  • 1972-08-12T23:00:00Z1h

Season Premiere

1972-09-24T23:00:00Z

8x01 The Millionairess

Season Premiere

8x01 The Millionairess

  • 1972-09-24T23:00:00Z1h 40m

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.

1972-10-19T23:00:00Z

8x02 Hedda Gabler

8x02 Hedda Gabler

  • 1972-10-19T23:00:00Z1h

1972-11-24T00:00:00Z

8x03 King Oedipus

8x03 King Oedipus

  • 1972-11-24T00:00:00Z1h

1972-12-20T00:00:00Z

8x04 The Magistrate

8x04 The Magistrate

  • 1972-12-20T00:00:00Z1h

8x05 The Adventures of Don Quixote

  • 1973-01-07T00:00:00Z1h

1973-02-16T00:00:00Z

8x06 Candide

8x06 Candide

  • 1973-02-16T00:00:00Z1h

1973-04-14T23:00:00Z

8x07 A Room with a View

8x07 A Room with a View

  • 1973-04-14T23:00:00Z1h

Season Finale

1973-05-15T23:00:00Z

8x08 The Caucasian Chalk Circle

Season Finale

8x08 The Caucasian Chalk Circle

  • 1973-05-15T23:00:00Z1h

1973-07-17T23:00:00Z

8x09 The Duchess of Malfi

8x09 The Duchess of Malfi

  • 1973-07-17T23:00:00Z1h

1973-08-21T23:00:00Z

8x10 Peer Gynt

8x10 Peer Gynt

  • 1973-08-21T23:00:00Z1h

Season Premiere

1973-09-15T23:00:00Z

9x01 The Love Girl and the Innocent

Season Premiere

9x01 The Love Girl and the Innocent

  • 1973-09-15T23:00:00Z1h

1973-10-26T23:00:00Z

9x02 The Common

9x02 The Common

  • 1973-10-26T23:00:00Z1h

1973-10-17T23:00:00Z

9x03 The Recruiting Officer

9x03 The Recruiting Officer

  • 1973-10-17T23:00:00Z1h

1973-12-16T00:00:00Z

9x04 Pygmalion

9x04 Pygmalion

  • 1973-12-16T00:00:00Z2h

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

9x05 The Importance of Being Earnest

  • 1974-02-17T00:00:00Z1h

1974-01-20T00:00:00Z

9x06 The Changeling

9x06 The Changeling

  • 1974-01-20T00:00:00Z1h

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.

1974-03-17T00:00:00Z

9x07 The Deep Blue Sea

9x07 The Deep Blue Sea

  • 1974-03-17T00:00:00Z1h

1974-04-20T23:00:00Z

9x08 Mrs. Warren's Profession

9x08 Mrs. Warren's Profession

  • 1974-04-20T23:00:00Z1h

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.

Season Finale

1974-05-18T23:00:00Z

9x09 The Skin Game

Season Finale

9x09 The Skin Game

  • 1974-05-18T23:00:00Z1h

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

Season Premiere

1974-09-07T23:00:00Z

10x01 The Linden Tree

Season Premiere

10x01 The Linden Tree

  • 1974-09-07T23:00:00Z1h

1974-10-23T23:00:00Z

10x02 Electra

10x02 Electra

  • 1974-10-23T23:00:00Z1h

1974-10-16T23:00:00Z

10x03 The Wood Demon

10x03 The Wood Demon

  • 1974-10-16T23:00:00Z1h 49m

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

1974-11-29T00:00:00Z

10x04 Robinson Crusoe

10x04 Robinson Crusoe

  • 1974-11-29T00:00:00Z1h

1975-01-19T00:00:00Z

10x05 The Apple Cart

10x05 The Apple Cart

  • 1975-01-19T00:00:00Z1h 55m

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.

1975-02-16T00:00:00Z

10x06 The School for Scandal

10x06 The School for Scandal

  • 1975-02-16T00:00:00Z1h

1975-03-22T23:00:00Z

10x07 King Lear

10x07 King Lear

  • 1975-03-22T23:00:00Z1h

1975-04-19T23:00:00Z

10x08 The Shadow of a Gunman

10x08 The Shadow of a Gunman

  • 1975-04-19T23:00:00Z1h

Season Finale

1975-05-17T23:00:00Z

10x09 Strife

Season Finale

10x09 Strife

  • 1975-05-17T23:00:00Z1h

Season Premiere

1975-09-27T23:00:00Z

11x01 Chips with Everything

Season Premiere

11x01 Chips with Everything

  • 1975-09-27T23:00:00Z1h

1975-11-02T00:00:00Z

11x02 The Little Minister

11x02 The Little Minister

  • 1975-11-02T00:00:00Z1h 40m

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.

1975-12-14T00:00:00Z

11x03 Love's Labour's Lost

11x03 Love's Labour's Lost

  • 1975-12-14T00:00:00Z2h

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.

1975-12-29T00:00:00Z

11x04 When We Are Married

11x04 When We Are Married

  • 1975-12-29T00:00:00Z1h

1976-01-24T00:00:00Z

11x05 Trilby

11x05 Trilby

  • 1976-01-24T00:00:00Z1h

1976-02-28T00:00:00Z

11x06 Loyalties

11x06 Loyalties

  • 1976-02-28T00:00:00Z1h

11x07 The Chester Mystery Cycle

  • 1976-04-17T23:00:00Z1h

Season Finale

1976-05-15T23:00:00Z

11x08 French Without Tears

Season Finale

11x08 French Without Tears

  • 1976-05-15T23:00:00Z1h

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

Season Premiere

1976-09-18T23:00:00Z

12x01 The Picture of Dorian Gray

Season Premiere

12x01 The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • 1976-09-18T23:00:00Z1h

1976-10-09T23:00:00Z

12x02 London Assurance

12x02 London Assurance

  • 1976-10-09T23:00:00Z1h

1976-11-21T00:00:00Z

12x03 Look Back in Anger

12x03 Look Back in Anger

  • 1976-11-21T00:00:00Z1h

1977-01-16T00:00:00Z

12x04 The Winslow Boy

12x04 The Winslow Boy

  • 1977-01-16T00:00:00Z1h 55m

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?

1977-02-13T00:00:00Z

12x05 The Country Wife

12x05 The Country Wife

  • 1977-02-13T00:00:00Z1h 55m

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

1977-03-13T00:00:00Z

12x06 The Ambassadors

12x06 The Ambassadors

  • 1977-03-13T00:00:00Z1h

Season Finale

1977-05-18T23:00:00Z

12x07 Heartbreak House

Season Finale

12x07 Heartbreak House

  • 1977-05-18T23:00:00Z1h

Season Premiere

1977-10-30T00:00:00Z

13x01 You Never Can Tell

Season Premiere

13x01 You Never Can Tell

  • 1977-10-30T00:00:00Z1h

1977-12-04T00:00:00Z

13x02 Waste

13x02 Waste

  • 1977-12-04T00:00:00Z1h

1978-01-15T00:00:00Z

13x03 Flint

13x03 Flint

  • 1978-01-15T00:00:00Z1h

1978-02-05T00:00:00Z

13x04 The Seagull

13x04 The Seagull

  • 1978-02-05T00:00:00Z1h

1978-03-05T00:00:00Z

13x05 The Sea

13x05 The Sea

  • 1978-03-05T00:00:00Z1h

1978-04-01T23:00:00Z

13x06 The Beaux Stratagem

13x06 The Beaux Stratagem

  • 1978-04-01T23:00:00Z1h

Season Finale

1978-04-22T23:00:00Z

13x07 Danton's Death

Season Finale

13x07 Danton's Death

  • 1978-04-22T23:00:00Z1h

Season Premiere

1978-11-26T00:00:00Z

14x01 Kean

Season Premiere

14x01 Kean

  • 1978-11-26T00:00:00Z1h

1979-01-14T00:00:00Z

14x02 Marya

14x02 Marya

  • 1979-01-14T00:00:00Z1h

1979-02-04T00:00:00Z

14x03 The Voysey Inheritance

14x03 The Voysey Inheritance

  • 1979-02-04T00:00:00Z1h

1979-03-04T00:00:00Z

14x04 Hello and Goodbye

14x04 Hello and Goodbye

  • 1979-03-04T00:00:00Z1h

1979-04-07T23:00:00Z

14x05 The Wings of the Dove

14x05 The Wings of the Dove

  • 1979-04-07T23:00:00Z1h

Season Finale

1979-06-04T23:00:00Z

14x06 Design for Living

Season Finale

14x06 Design for Living

  • 1979-06-04T23:00:00Z1h 40m

Noel Coward's play about Gilda and her attempts to share her love with two men while marrying a third.

1979-06-30T23:00:00Z

14x07 The Kitchen

14x07 The Kitchen

  • 1979-06-30T23:00:00Z1h

Season Premiere

1982-05-23T23:00:00Z

15x01 I Have Been Here Before

Season Premiere

15x01 I Have Been Here Before

  • 1982-05-23T23:00:00Z1h

1982-06-20T23:00:00Z

15x02 On Approval

15x02 On Approval

  • 1982-06-20T23:00:00Z2h

1982-07-18T23:00:00Z

15x03 Little Eyolf

15x03 Little Eyolf

  • 1982-07-18T23:00:00Z1h

1982-08-22T23:00:00Z

15x04 The Critic

15x04 The Critic

  • 1982-08-22T23:00:00Z1h

Season Finale

1982-09-19T23:00:00Z

15x05 The White Guard

Season Finale

15x05 The White Guard

  • 1982-09-19T23:00:00Z1h

Season Premiere

1983-05-21T23:00:00Z

16x01 Dangerous Corner

Season Premiere

16x01 Dangerous Corner

  • 1983-05-21T23:00:00Z1h

Dangerous Corner is a TV episode of BBC Play of the Month written by J.B. Priestley and directed by James Ormerod.

1983-06-12T23:00:00Z

16x02 The Gay Lord Quex

16x02 The Gay Lord Quex

  • 1983-06-12T23:00:00Z1h

1983-07-10T23:00:00Z

16x03 The Misanthrope

16x03 The Misanthrope

  • 1983-07-10T23:00:00Z1h

Season Finale

1983-09-11T23:00:00Z

16x04 Infidelities

Season Finale

16x04 Infidelities

  • 1983-09-11T23:00:00Z1h

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