BBC Play of the Month (Season 8)

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.

  • Poster for The Millionairess

    The Millionairess (Episode 1)

    Writer: George Bernard Shaw

    Air date: 1972-09-25

    Runtime: 100 min

    Overview: An Indian doctor meets a willful and arrogant heiress stuck in a dull marriage in order to satisfy the conditions of her father's will.

  • Poster for Hedda Gabler

    Hedda Gabler (Episode 2)

    Writer: Michael Meyer

    Air date: 1972-10-20

    Overview: Hedda Gabler is a beautiful woman married to the solid and respectable academic George Tesman. Then an old flame, the dreamer Eilert Lovborg, turns up on the scene with tragic results.

  • Poster for King Oedipus

    King Oedipus (Episode 3)

    Writer: Sophocles

    Air date: 1972-11-24

    Overview: Resolving the riddle of the Sphinx makes Oedipus the king of Thebes, but he also resolves another mystery — and it destroys him.

  • Poster for The Magistrate

    The Magistrate (Episode 4)

    Writer: Arthur Wing Pinero

    Air date: 1972-12-20

    Overview: A widow weds a magistrate and makes her 19-year-old son act as a boy.

  • Poster for The Adventures of Don Quixote

    The Adventures of Don Quixote (Episode 5)

    Writer: Hugh Whitemore

    Air date: 1973-01-07

    Runtime: 100 min

    Overview: A self-proclaimed 'knight' and his hapless squire travel the Spanish countryside, attacking 'giants' that are really windmills in his attempt to win the love of the fair Dulcinea.

  • Poster for Candide

    Candide (Episode 6)

    Writer: James MacTaggart

    Air date: 1973-02-16

    Overview: Candide falls in love with the beautiful but materialistic Cunegonde. Her barron father doesn't approve of the affair so Candide wanders, meeting all the misfortunes along the way.

  • Poster for A Room with a View

    A Room with a View (Episode 7)

    Writer: Pauline Macaulay

    Air date: 1973-04-15

    Overview: When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and son George step in to remedy the situation. Meeting the Emersons could change Lucy's life forever but, once back in England, how will her experiences in Tuscany affect her marriage plans?

  • Poster for The Caucasian Chalk Circle

    The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Episode 8)

    Writer: Margarete Steffin

    Air date: 1973-05-16

    Overview: Grusha sacrifices her happiness and dignity for the sake of an abandoned child she takes as her own.

  • Poster for The Duchess of Malfi

    The Duchess of Malfi (Episode 9)

    Air date: 1973-07-18

  • Poster for Peer Gynt

    Peer Gynt (Episode 10)

    Air date: 1973-08-22

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