BBC Play of the Month (Season 14)

Kean (Episode 1)

Air date: 1978-11-26

Runtime: 90 min

Overview: The great actor Edmund Kean is involved in a variety of romantic and other entanglements and wonders where acting ends and real life begins.

Marya (Episode 2)

Writer: Christopher Hampton

Air date: 1979-01-14

Runtime: 120 min

Overview: A portrait of the sordid underbelly of Soviet society during the Russian Civil War.

The Voysey Inheritance (Episode 3)

Writer: Harley Granville-Barker

Air date: 1979-02-04

Runtime: 102 min

Overview: Edward Voysey's highly principled world upturns when he discovers the family business he's inheriting has been defrauding its clients for years because his father has been illegally speculating with their money. To compound matters, he quickly discovers his large, scandal-fearing family knew of the crime but allowed it to continue rather than face the shame of public disclosure.

Hello and Goodbye (Episode 4)

Writer: Athol Fugard

Air date: 1979-03-04

Runtime: 90 min

Overview: Siblings Johnnie and Hester delay the responsibility of becoming adults to the point they lose the purpose of existence.

The Wings of the Dove (Episode 5)

Writer: Denis Constanduros

Air date: 1979-04-08

Runtime: 81 min

Overview: Kate is secretly betrothed to a struggling journalist, Merton Densher. But she knows her Aunt Maude will never approve of the match, since Kate's deceased mother has lost all her money in a marriage to a degenerate opium addict. When Kate meets a terminally ill American heiress named Millie traveling through Europe, she comes up with a conniving plan to have both love and wealth.

Design for Living (Episode 6)

Writer: Noël Coward

Air date: 1979-06-05

Runtime: 102 min

Overview: A woman cannot decide between two men who love her, and the trio agree to try living together in a platonic friendly relationship.

The Kitchen (Episode 7)

Air date: 1979-07-01