

BBC Play of the Month
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
19-10-1965During 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
16-11-1965110mCultural 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
18-01-1966The 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
15-02-1966After 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.

6.Lee Oswald: Assassin
15-03-196690mThe 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
12-04-1966Antique dealer Charlie yearns to own a beautiful Portland vase.
- Ep 8
8.Death of a Salesman
24-05-1966Willy 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
28-06-1966The 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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