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BBC2 Play of the Week

Season 1 1977 - 1978

  • 1977-09-20T23:00:00Z on BBC Two
  • 1h 40m
  • 2d 3h 40m (31 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
Anthology of plays and novels adapted into feature length movies.

31 episodes

Series Premiere

1977-09-20T23:00:00Z

1x01 Professional Foul

Series Premiere

1x01 Professional Foul

  • 1977-09-20T23:00:00Z1h 40m

Anderson flies to Prague for a conference expecting an easy time of it, but finds himself in a potentially dangerous moral dilemma.

1977-09-27T23:00:00Z

1x02 Exiles

1x02 Exiles

  • 1977-09-27T23:00:00Z1h 40m

A television play by HUGH WHITEMORE based on Exiles by MICHAEL J. ARLEN starring Alan Badel as Michael Arlen, Martin Shaw as his son, Michael J. Susan Engel as his mother, Atalanta and Ned Sherrin as Noel Coward Michael Arlen , author of The Green Hat , was one of the most successful popular novelists of the 20s. He was also an exile; an Armenian born in Bulgaria, but brought up in England and resident for the last years of his life in the USA. Now, after his death, and the decline in the popularity of his works, his son looks back on his life, and tries to make sense of it.

1977-10-04T23:00:00Z

1x03 Able's Will

1x03 Able's Will

  • 1977-10-04T23:00:00Z1h 40m

by Christopher Hampton. Thomas Able, once a successful writer, has not written since the war. He lies paralysed and dying. His family gather at the family home.

1x04 The Sinking of HMS Victoria

  • 1977-10-11T23:00:00Z1h 40m

The Sinking of HMS Victoria by James Warner Bellah and Donald MacIntyre. Based on a Court Martial held aboard HMS Hibernia in Malta in 1893. The court endeavours to determine why, during fleet manoeuvres, HMS Victoria is sunk in a collision resulting in a grievous loss of life.

1977-10-18T23:00:00Z

1x05 True Patriot

1x05 True Patriot

  • 1977-10-18T23:00:00Z1h 40m

Michael York as Dietrich Bonhoeffer in True Patriot by DON SHAW. Dietrich Bonhoeffer , theologian, academic and pastor, was convicted and hanged for being implicated in plots against Hitler. He was hanged in April 1945, one month before the end of the war in Europe.

1977-10-26T00:00:00Z

1x06 Shooting the Chandelier

1x06 Shooting the Chandelier

  • 1977-10-26T00:00:00Z1h 40m

Shooting the Chandelier by DAVID MERCER Czechoslovakia , April 1945. A chance meeting between a professor and his former student develops into a violent trial of strength.

1977-11-02T00:00:00Z

1x07 The Kitchen

1x07 The Kitchen

  • 1977-11-02T00:00:00Z1h 40m

The Kitchen by ARNOLD WESKER starring Peter Egan

1x08 Arnhem: The Story of an Escape

  • 1977-11-16T00:00:00Z1h 40m

Arnhem: The Story of an Escape based on the book Travel by Dark by GRAEME WARRACK

1977-12-28T00:00:00Z

1x09 Our Day Out

1x09 Our Day Out

  • 1977-12-28T00:00:00Z1h 40m

Our Day Out by WILLY RUSSELL. One coach, 30 kids - and their teachers - set out from Liverpool to North Wales. As the volatile mixture erupts, mirth and anarchy prevail while tempers flare.

1978-01-04T00:00:00Z

1x10 Forgotten Love Songs

1x10 Forgotten Love Songs

  • 1978-01-04T00:00:00Z1h 40m

Forgotten Love Songs by MAGGIE WADEY. 'The man knew what he wanted. A relationship that was loving, but not possessive. In other words, he wanted to maintain his sanity.'

1x11 A Visit from Miss Prothero

  • 1978-01-11T00:00:00Z1h 40m

Arthur Dodsworth has recently retired. He lives alone except for his budgie and memories of his late wife Winnie. One afternoon his nap is interrupted by the doorbell; his former secretary, Peggy Prothero, has come to visit. A brash, charmless woman who seems to take no pleasure in anything but putting people down, Miss Prothero wants to fill her old boss in on all the changes that have taken place at work since he left. Dodsworth isn't very curious, and as the visit wears on it puts a little strain on his politeness and patience. Miss Prothero doesn't enjoy it much either, but lingers on as there's a bombshell she wants to drop. The docketing system Dodsworth introduced thirty years earlier, which revolutionised the firm, has been scrapped by her adored new boss Mr Skinner. The crowning achievement of Dodsworth's career has just become obsolete, and she wants to tell him all about it.

1978-01-18T00:00:00Z

1x12 Mr and Ms Bureaucrat

1x12 Mr and Ms Bureaucrat

  • 1978-01-18T00:00:00Z1h 40m

Mr and Ms Bureaucrat by RHYS ADRIAN. Behind the façade of form-filling at the Department of Something-or-Other, careers fall and rise at the drop of an apostrophe. Will HIB's double negative be accepted, ensuring his pension prospects?

1978-01-25T00:00:00Z

1x13 Foreign Affairs

1x13 Foreign Affairs

  • 1978-01-25T00:00:00Z1h 40m

Foreign Affairs by DON SHAW. Moscow is the setting for a reunion between Susan and Viktor - a reunion which leads to unforeseen complications.

1x14 The Dissolution of Marcus Fleischman

  • 1978-02-01T00:00:00Z1h 40m

Maria Warburg and Cyril Shaps in The Dissolution of Marcus Fleischman by STEPHEN DAVIS. ' Please God, it will be next year in Jerusalem '. For Zelda, and for many like her, it was next year in Manchester - for her husband Marcus the future was even more unexpected.

1978-02-08T00:00:00Z

1x15 The O'Hooligan File

1x15 The O'Hooligan File

  • 1978-02-08T00:00:00Z1h 40m

Pat Heywood and Allan Surtees in The O'Hooligan File by JANEY PREGER. ' He's wasted his life and yours, Olive, on this sort of idiocy. He could have been a headmaster by now, if he'd stuck to teaching.' Jack Dunn is determined to beat the system with pen and postage stamp.

1x16 The Turkey Who Lives on the Hill

  • 1978-02-15T00:00:00Z1h 40m

The Turkey Who Lives on the Hill by SEAN MCCARTHY. Married life starts out full of bright hopes for Alex and Lynda - but soon they are trapped in a nightmare with their friend Bill.

1978-02-22T00:00:00Z

1x17 Flayed

1x17 Flayed

  • 1978-02-22T00:00:00Z1h 40m

Flayed by DON TAYLOR with Ian Holm. ' There's absolutely no escape. No chairs or tables to hold on to, no fags to light or drinks to pour: no small talk or trivial daytime chatter. Just the naked person.'

1978-03-01T00:00:00Z

1x18 She Fell Among Thieves

1x18 She Fell Among Thieves

  • 1978-03-01T00:00:00Z1h 40m

She Fell Among Thieves by DORNFORD YATES. Screenplay by TOM SHARPE.1924: Two English gentlemen join forces to attack Vanity Fair, a villainess of international notoriety, in her fortified château in the South of France.

1978-03-15T00:00:00Z

1x19 Stargazy on Zummerdown

1x19 Stargazy on Zummerdown

  • 1978-03-15T00:00:00Z1h 40m

Written by John Fletcher. [Starring] Stephen Murray, Roy Dotrice and Peggy Mount. Music composed by DAVID FANSHAWE. with Toni Arthur and Roy Marsden. The Midsummer Festival on the top of Zummerdown in the West Country. Music and dancing, creative swearing and onion-eating contests help to plan the economy for the coming year. In this carnival atmosphere the age-old balance between Town and Country - Toonies and Aggros - must be maintained. The lessons of the past 300 years cannot be forgotten - for this is the 23rd century.

1978-03-21T23:00:00Z

1x20 Liza

1x20 Liza

  • 1978-03-21T23:00:00Z1h 40m

Liza from TURGENEV. Dramatised by LEO LEHMAN starring Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies Jeremy Kemp , Sebastian Shaw and Joyce Redman. Lavretsky returns to Russia from Europe and finds he joins a group of admirers of his beautiful young cousin Liza.

1978-03-28T23:00:00Z

1x21 For Tea on Sunday

1x21 For Tea on Sunday

  • 1978-03-28T23:00:00Z1h 40m

For Tea on Sunday by DAVID MERCER with An unexpected force shatters the urbane calm of a Sunday afternoon tea party. With JANE HAYDEN , EILEEN BRADY GRACE DOLAN , STEPHEN LAWRENCE

1978-05-02T23:00:00Z

1x22 When the Actors Come

1x22 When the Actors Come

  • 1978-05-02T23:00:00Z1h 40m

Written by Don Taylor. With Oliver Cotton, Alec McCowen, Rosemary McHale, Patrick Stewart, Zena Walker. On a cold day in January 1850, a group of travelling actors arrive out of the snow at the remote country estate of Count Horvath, in eastern Hungary. The Count is delighted to have an excuse for re-opening the old family theatre, closed since his childhood. But other members of his household wonder whether these unexpected guests should be made quite so welcome.

Season Finale

1978-05-09T23:00:00Z

1x23 The Winslow Boy

Season Finale

1x23 The Winslow Boy

  • 1978-05-09T23:00:00Z1h 40m

The Winslow Boy by TERENCE RATTIGAN starring Alan Badel , Eric Porter, Michele Dotrice , Diana Fairfax David Robb. The term at Osborne Naval College is not yet over. Why. therefore. has Cadet Ronnie Winslow returned home? And why, moreover, is he hiding in the garden in the rain?

1978-05-16T23:00:00Z

1x24 Ice Age

1x24 Ice Age

  • 1978-05-16T23:00:00Z1h 40m

Ice Age by TANKRED DORST , translated by NEVILLE PLAICE AND STEPHEN PLAICE starring Anthony Quayle with Mike Gwilym , Joyce Redman Michael Williams. ' You should have thrown the hand-grenade.' ' I've still got it!' An unexpected stranger arrives at the old people's home in Norway where a famous writer is kept in confinement after the war. Should he be brought to trial for collaborating with the Nazis? Or will the young partisan carry through his original plan to kill him?

1978-05-23T23:00:00Z

1x25 The Copyist

1x25 The Copyist

  • 1978-05-23T23:00:00Z1h 40m

A play with music by STEPHEN DEUTSCH . A fateful day in the life of a great composer.

1x26 An Englishman's Castle: Part 1

  • 1978-06-04T23:00:00Z1h 40m

Kenneth More in An Englishman's Castle: 1 by PHILIP MACKIE with Anthony Bate and Isla Blair. Philip Mackie 's three plays are about the making of a successful soap opera An Englishman's Castle in a state controlled television service, and of its author and producer Peter Ingram. The plays are set in London today-but in a Britain defeated in 1940 and now a satellite state of Germany.

1x27 An Englishman's Castle: Part 2

  • 1978-06-11T23:00:00Z1h 40m

Kenneth More in An Englishman's Castle A play in three parts by PHILIP MACKIE with Anthony Bate and Isla Blair. 2: Peter Ingram. producer and author of An Englishman's Castle, the soap opera which has brought him fame and fortune, is confronted by difficult decisions of conscience .. ,

1x28 An Englishman's Castle: Part 3

  • 1978-06-18T23:00:00Z1h 40m

Kenneth More in An Englishman's Castle A play in three parts by PHILIP MACKIE with Anthony Bate , Isla Blair and Frederick Treves. 3: Peter Ingram is faced by appalling alternatives both in his home life and in the state television service in which he works. 'Prison, blood, death, create enthusiasts and martyrs, and bring forth courage and desperate revolutions.' (NAPOLEON i)

1978-06-25T23:00:00Z

1x29 Orde Wingate: Part 1

1x29 Orde Wingate: Part 1

  • 1978-06-25T23:00:00Z1h 40m

The first of three dramatised impressions of Major General Orde Wingate by DON SHAW with 1: If I Forget Thee 0 Jerusalem with ... one of the most successful ventures in technical multi-partnership that television drama has given us recently ... tSUNDAY TIMES). The splendid commitment of Barry Foster and the mystery still surrounding our most unorthodox Second World War leader keep me gripped ... (DAILY TELEGRAPH). highly articulate and technically adventurous. (OBSERVER) Admirably controlled writing, brilliantly inventive direction. (LONDON EVENING STANDARD)

1978-07-02T23:00:00Z

1x30 Orde Wingate: Part 2

1x30 Orde Wingate: Part 2

  • 1978-07-02T23:00:00Z1h 40m

Three dramatised impressions of Major General Orde Wingate by DON SHAW with 2: For the Sword of the Lord and of Gideon.

1978-07-09T23:00:00Z

1x31 Orde Wingate: Part 3

1x31 Orde Wingate: Part 3

  • 1978-07-09T23:00:00Z1h 40m

The last of three dramatised impressions of Major General Orde Wingate by DON SHAW in Turn You to the Strong Hold

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