BBC Play of the Month
BBC Play of the Month
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BBC Play of the Month

5.0 / 10
1965
16 seasons
128 episodes
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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  • Ep 1

    1.Luther

    19-10-1965

    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.

  • Ep 2

    2.A Passage to India

    16-11-1965110m

    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 edu...

  • Ep 3

    3.The Joel Brand Story

    14-12-196590m
  • Ep 4

    4.Gordon of Khartoum

    18-01-1966

    The story of Charles 'Chinese' Gordon, a brilliant but eccentric military commander, and his death defending Khartoum in 1885.

  • Ep 5

    5.Where Angels Fear to Tread

    15-02-1966

    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.

  • Lee Oswald: Assassin

    6.Lee Oswald: Assassin

    15-03-196690m

    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.

  • Ep 7

    7.Make Me an Offer

    12-04-1966

    Antique dealer Charlie yearns to own a beautiful Portland vase.

  • Ep 8

    8.Death of a Salesman

    24-05-1966

    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...

  • Ep 9

    9.The Devil's Eggshell

    28-06-1966

    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 c...

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