BBC Play of the Month (Season 11)

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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    Chips with Everything (Episode 1)

    Writer: Arnold Wesker

    Air date: 1975-09-28

    Overview: 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.

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    The Little Minister (Episode 2)

    Writer: J.M. Barrie

    Air date: 1975-11-02

    Runtime: 102 min

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for Love's Labour's Lost

    Love's Labour's Lost (Episode 3)

    Air date: 1975-12-14

    Runtime: 120 min

    Overview: 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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    When We Are Married (Episode 4)

    Writer: J. B. Priestley

    Air date: 1975-12-29

    Runtime: 75 min

    Overview: 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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    Trilby (Episode 5)

    Writer: Hugh Whitemore

    Air date: 1976-01-24

    Overview: Trilby, a young Irish girl in Paris, falls under the influence of the sinister hypnotist Svengali.

  • Poster for Loyalties

    Loyalties (Episode 6)

    Writer: John Galsworthy

    Air date: 1976-02-28

  • Poster for The Chester Mystery Cycle

    The Chester Mystery Cycle (Episode 7)

    Writer: Maurice Hussey

    Air date: 1976-04-18

    Runtime: 90 min

    Overview: A quartet of mystery plays originally based in Chester.

  • Poster for French Without Tears

    French Without Tears (Episode 8)

    Writer: Anatole de Grunwald

    Air date: 1976-05-16

    Runtime: 94 min

    Overview: The romantic and comic adventures of a quintet of young Englishmen in France, on a course to learn the language.

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