BBC Play of the Month(1965)
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.
- Created by:
- James MacTaggart
- First aired:
- 1965-10-19
- Country:
- GB
- Network:
- BBC One
Episodes
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1. Chips with Everything
1975-09-28
Pip is a socialist who has seen the squalor of the East End, typified by greasy cafés offering 'chips with everything'. Pip is also the only privately-educated recruit in a draft of other National Service recruits. He's tried to buck the system by not applying for an officer's commission.
2. The Little Minister
1975-11-02 · 102m
In rural 1840s Scotland, Gavin Dishart arrives to become the new 'little minister' of Thrums's Auld Licht church. He meets a mysterious young gypsy girl in the dens and to his horror Babbie draws him into her escape from the soldiers after she incites a Luddite riot. But unknown to Gavin, Babbie is more than she seems, and they must overcome her secret, the villagers' fears of her, and--worst of all--Gavin's devotion to his mother's sensibilities, before they can openly declare their love.
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3. Love's Labour's Lost
1975-12-14 · 120m
A scholarly king and his three companions swear off the society of women for three years, only to have a diplomatic visit from a French princess and her three ladies-in-waiting thwart their intentions.
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4. When We Are Married
1975-12-29 · 75m
At the turn of the 20th century, a set of long-married couples discover that due to a bureaucratic quirk they have never actually been married.
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5. Trilby
1976-01-24
Trilby, a young Irish girl in Paris, falls under the influence of the sinister hypnotist Svengali.
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6. Loyalties
1976-02-28
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7. The Chester Mystery Cycle
1976-04-18 · 90m
A quartet of mystery plays originally based in Chester.
8. French Without Tears
1976-05-16 · 94m
The romantic and comic adventures of a quintet of young Englishmen in France, on a course to learn the language.
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