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.
BBC Play of the Month (Season 1)
Luther (Episode 1)
Writer: John Osborne
Air date: 1965-10-19
Overview: 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.
A Passage to India (Episode 2)
Air date: 1965-11-16
Runtime: 110 min
Overview: 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.
The Joel Brand Story (Episode 3)
Writer: Heinar Kipphardt
Air date: 1965-12-14
Runtime: 90 min
Gordon of Khartoum (Episode 4)
Writer: Robin Maugham
Air date: 1966-01-18
Overview: The story of Charles 'Chinese' Gordon, a brilliant but eccentric military commander, and his death defending Khartoum in 1885.
Where Angels Fear to Tread (Episode 5)
Air date: 1966-02-15
Overview: 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 (Episode 6) 8.0
Air date: 1966-03-15
Runtime: 90 min
Overview: 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.
Make Me an Offer (Episode 7)
Writer: Wolf Mankowitz
Air date: 1966-04-12
Overview: Antique dealer Charlie yearns to own a beautiful Portland vase.
Death of a Salesman (Episode 8)
Writer: Arthur Miller
Air date: 1966-05-24
Overview: 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 Biff and Happy, his troubled sons and his life.
The Devil's Eggshell (Episode 9)
Writer: David Weir
Air date: 1966-06-28
Overview: 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 conspiracy hatched by a team of scientists intent on using an alien menace to unite the world. But their scheme backfires with fatal consequences...
Seasons
Episodes 9
Episodes 5
Episodes 11
Episodes 9
Episodes 8
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