CTVA - The Classic TV Archive - UK
NET Playhouse (US title) (1966-72) US compilation of plays produced by BBC
BBC Play of the Month
Episode Guide compiled by The Classic TV Archive
with contributions by:
Rina Fox
references: Radio Times
Library of Congress (telnet://locis.loc.gov)
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PLAY OF THE MONTH
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BBC Television Production
for
BBC1 (Tuesdays)(1965-67)(seasons 1-2)
BBC1 (Sundays)(1967-83)(season 3-16)
Produced by Cedric Messina (most)
1965-1983 119 plays x 90-120 min videotape bw/col
eps 001-035 black and white
eps 036-119 color (from Nov1969)
Premise:
A series of established classic plays.
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BBC1 Tuesdays
1.01 [--] Play of the Month: LUTHER
19-Oct-1965 BBBC UK
written by John Osborne
directed by Alan Cooke
starring
Alec McCowen
Geoffrey Bayldon
Patrick Magee
1.02 [--] Play of the Month: A PASSAGE TO INDIA
16-Nov-1965 BBC UK
written by E.M. Forster
directed by Waris Hussein
starring
Michael Bates
Cyril Cusack
Saeed Jaffrey
Virginia McKenna
Zia Mohyeddin
Sybil Thorndike as Mrs. Moore
1.03 [--] Play of the Month: THE JOEL BRAND STORY
14-Dec-1965 BBC UK
written by Heinar Kipphardt
directed by Rudolph Cartier
starring
Anton Diffring
Zia Moyheddin
Cyril Shaps
A bizarre deal between the Nazis and the Allies, brokered by an Hungarian
factory owner. The Listener remarked: "One's resistence to believing
the ghastly story of Eichmann's offer of the lives of a million Jews
for 10,000 lorries. [RF]
1.04 [--] Play of the Month: GORDON OF KHARTOUM
18-Jan-1966 BBC UK
written by Robin Maugham
directed by Rudolph Cartier
starring
Alan Badel
1.05 [--] Play of the Month: WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD
15-Feb-1966 BBC UK
1.06 [--] Play of the Month: LEE OSWALD - ASSASSIN
15-Mar-1966 BBC UK
written & directed by Rudolph Cartier
1.07 [--] Play of the Month: MAKE ME AN OFFER
12-Apr-1966 BBC UK
written by Wolf Mankowitz
directed by Bill Hays
starring
Ann Beach
Peter Gilmore
James Grout
Diana Coupland
1.08 [--] Play of the Month: DEATH OF A SALESMAN
24-May-1966 BBC UK
written by Arthur Miller
directed by Alan Cooke
produced by Cedric Messina
starring
Rod Steiger as Willy Loman
Betsy Blair
Joss Ackland
Kenneth J. Warren
1.09 [--] Play of the Month: THE DEVIL'S EGGSHELL
28-Jun-1966 BBC UK
written by David Weir
directed by Gareth Davies
produced by Cedric Messina
starring
Keith Barron as Dr Quilliam
Edmond Bennett
Stephanie Bidmead as Maudie
Peter Copley as Home Secretary
Michael Culver as Holborn
Marian Diamond as Jean Bell
Betty Goulding
Bernard Hepton as Lord Portmanteau
Anthony Jacobs
Godfrey James
Lawrence James as Bland
P.J. Kavanagh as Interviewer
Burt Kwouk as Wu Hsien Ching
David Langton as Sir Leonard Bell
Edward Ogden
Nicholas Pennell
John Phillips as Major-General Atkins
Colin Rix
Leonard Rossiter as Prime Minister
Norman Scace
Raymond Witch
A group of scientists decide to fool the government into thinking that
a collection of strange eggs found at the scene of various disasters
are actually of extra-terrestrial origin. [RF]
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BBC1 Tuesdays
2.01 [10] Play of the Month: DEFECTION! THE CASE OF COLONEL PETROV
27-Sep-1966 BBC UK
(no details)
2.02 [11] Play of the Month: DAYS TO COME
25-Oct-1966 BBC UK
written by Kenneth Taylor
story by H.G. Welles
directed by Alan Bridges
produced by Cedric Messina
starring
redited cast:
Bernard Archard as Moris
Michael Brennan as Blunt
Judi Dench as Elisabeth
Michael Gough as Elliot
Dinsdale Landen as Jon
Norman Mitchell as Driver
John Quentin as Bindon
Alan Rowe as Filips
Peggy Sinclair as Stewardess
2.03 [12] Play of the Month: CORRIDORS OF POWER
22-Nov-1966 BBC UK
written by C.P. Snow
starring
Patrick Allen
2.03 [13] Play of the Month: THE MAKING OF JERICHO
20-Dec-1966 BBC1 UK Tuesday
From : Hylton Holt <hylton.holt@btinternet.com>
: 12 December 2004 17:17:30
It`s always stuck in my mind, my diary entry for the 20th. December `66 says
"Very good Play Of The Month- The Making of Jericho". All I can tell you is
that it concerns a Liverpudlian (?) shipping clerk who`s surname is Bundavin
(spelling?)and who`s middle name he finally admits is Jericho. I feel he was
played by Richard O`Callaghan/ O`Sullivan (whichever one WASN`T in "Man About
The House"). He`s pursuaded to break out of his clerical rut and become an
artist by a chance meeting with a character played by-I`m pretty sure-
Nerys Hughes. We see his hair getting longer and a beard being grown to mark
his new status. Ie. Jericho has been made. The only other thing I recall is
Nerys Hughes`s response to Jericho as a name retorts "Dat`s norra person
name- dat`s a place name!" Well something like that!
Thanks For Nudging My Memory! Hylton Holt <hylton.holt@btinternet.com>
2.04 [14] Play of the Month: THE CABINET MAKERS
14-Mar-1967 BBC UK
(no details)
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BBC1 Sundays
3.01 [15] Play of the Month: GIRLS IN UNIFORM
15-Oct-1967 BBC UK
written by Christa Winsloe
starring
Francesca Annis
Jan Chappell
3.02 [16] Play of the Month: THE MOON AND SIXPENCE
12-Nov-1967 BBC UK
written by W. Somerset Maugham
starring
Charles Gray
Elizabeth Welch
3.03 [17] Play of the Month: ROMEO AND JULIET
03-Dec-1967 BBC UK
written by William Shakespeare
directed by Alan Cooke
starring
Hywel Bennett as Romeo
Kika Markham as Juliet
John Gielgud as Chorus
Charles Kay
Thora Hird as Nurse
Ronald Pickup
3.04 [18] Play of the Month: THE PARACHUTE
21-Jan-1968 BBC UK
written by David Mercer
directed by Anthony Page
starring
Alan Badel
Jill Bennett
Isabel Dean
Esmond Knight
John Osborne
3.05 [19] Play of the Month: CYRANO DE BERGERAC
11-Feb-1968 BBC UK
written by Edmond Rostand
starring
Eric Porter as Cyrano de Bergerac
John Clark
Peter Jeffrey
3.06 [20] Play of the Month: GHOSTS
17-Mar-1968 BBC UK
(no details)
3.07 [21] Play of the Month: THE CORN IS GREEN
14-Apr-1968 BBC UK
written by Emlyn Williams
3.08 [22] Play of the Month: THE TEMPEST
12-May-1968 BBC UK
written by William Shakespeare
directed by Basil Coleman
starring
Jonathan Dennis as Ferdinand
Keith Michell as Caliban
Ronald Pickup as Ariel
Michael Redgrave as Prospero
Tessa Wyatt as Miranda
3.09 [23] Play of the Month: THE OLD LADIES
09-Jun-1968 BBC UK
(no details)
3.10 [24] Play of the Month: MAN AND SUPERMAN
07-Jul-1968 BBC UK
story by George Bernard Shaw
starring
Eric Porter
Maggie Smith
3.11 [25] Play of the Month: HAY FEVER (90 min)
04-Aug-1968 BBC1 UK Sun 9.15pm
produced by Cedric Messina
written by Noel Coward
directed by John Gorrie
starring
Charles Gray as Richard Greatham
Celia Johnson as Judith Bliss
Jane Merrow as Sorell Bliss
Ian McKellen as Simon Bliss
Anna Massey
Richard Briers
Dennis Price
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4.01 [26] Play of the Month: ST. JOAN
01-Sep-1968 BBC UK
written by George Bernard Shaw
adapted by Waris Hussein
directed by Waris Hussein
starring
Janet Suzman as Joan of Arc
David Birney as Brother Martin
Colin Blakely as John de Stogumber
John Gielgud as the Inquisitor
Philip Bond
4.02 [27] Play of the Month: THE MALE ANIMAL
13-Oct-1968 BBC1 UK Sun
written by James Thurber and Elliott Nugent
starring
Lee Montague
Anthony Perkins
4.03 [28] Play of the Month: THE SEAGULL
17-Nov-1968 BBC1 UK
story by Anton Chekhov
starring
Maggie Smith as Irina Arkadina
Robert Stephens as Trigorin
(later version - see #103 - 05Feb78)
4.04 [29] Play of the Month: WATERS OF THE MOON
24-Dec-1968 BBC1 UK Tuesday, Christmas Eve
written by N.C. Hunter
starring
Margaret Leighton
Athene Seyler
Kathleen Harrison
Vivien Merchant
Roland Culver
Michael Gwynn
4.05 [30] Play of the Month: MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS
12-Jan-1969 BBC1 UK
written Schiller
starring
Virginia McKenna
Pamela Brown
4.06 [31] Play of the Month: MAIGRET AT BAY (90 min)
09-Feb-1969 BBC1 UK
written by Donald Bull based on the 1964 novel
directed William Slater
starring
Rupert Davies as Chief Insp. Maigret
Helen Shingler as Madame Maigret
4.07 [32] Play of the Month: RELATIVELY SPEAKING
02-Mar-1969 BBC1 UK
(no details)
4.08 [33] Play of the Month: JULIUS CAESAR
13-Apr-1969 BBC1 UK Sun
written by William Shakespeare
starring
Robert Stephens
Frank Finlay
Maurice Denham
Edward Woodward as Cassius
4.09 [34] Play of the Month: AN IDEAL HUSBAND
11-May-1969 BBC1 UK
story by Oscar Wilde
directed by Rudolph Cartier
starring
Charles Carson as Earl of Caversham
Jeremy Brett as Lord Goring
Keith Michell as Sir Robert Chiltern
Michel Faure as Vicomte de Nanjac
Raymond Graham as Mason
Erik Chitty as Phipps
Dinah Sheridan as Lady Chiltern
Zena Dare as Lady Markby
Magda Miller as Countess of Basildon
Penelope Lee as Mrs. Marchmont
Susan Hampshire as Mabel Chiltern
Margaret Leighton as Mrs. Cheveley
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5.01 [35] Play of the Month: THE HEIRESS
12-Oct-1969 BBC1 UK
written by Augustus Goetz & Ruth Goetz
starring
Vincent Price as Dr. Austin Sloper
Jill Bennett
BBC1 launched its full colour service on 15- Nov- 1969
5.02 [36] Play of the Month: CHARLEY'S AUNT
23-Nov-1969 BBC1 UK
(no details)
5.03 [37] Play of the Month: THE MARQUIS
14-Dec-1969 BBC1 UK
written by Frank Wedekind
5.04 [38] Play of the Month: THE THREE SISTERS
18-Jan-1970 BBC1 UK
written by Moura Budberg
story by Anton Chekhov
directed by Cedric Messina
starring
Credited cast:
Anthony Hopkins as Andrei
Janet Suzman as Masha
Michele Dotrice as Irina
Eileen Atkins as Olga
Joss Ackland
Sarah Badel
Jill Bennett
Michael Bryant
Ronald Hines
5.05 [39] Play of the Month: IN GOOD KING CHARLES'S GOLDEN DAYS
15-Feb-1970 BBC1 UK
(no details)
5.06 [40] Play of the Month: SEPARATE TABLES
15-Mar-1970 BBC1 UK
written by Terence Rattigan
starring
Eric Porter
5.07 [41] Play of the Month: HOWARDS END
19-Apr-1970 BBC1 UK
written by E.M. Forster
starring
Glenda Jackson
Sarah-Jane Gwillim
5.08 [42] Play of the Month: THE RIVALS
17-May-1970 BBC1 UK
written by Richard B. Sheridan
directed by Basil Coleman
starring
John Alderton
Jeremy Brett as Captain Jack Absolute
Andrew Cruickshank
Jennie Linden as Lydia Languish
T.P. McKenna
Beryl Reid as Mrs. Malaprop
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6.01 [43] Play of the Month: MACBETH
29-Sep-1970 BBC1 UK Sunday 8.15 pm
written by William Shakespeare
directed by John Gorrie
starring
Eric Porter as Macbeth
Janet Suzman as Lady Macbeth
John Alderton
Michael Goodliffe
Daphne Heard
Hilary Mason
John Thaw
John Woodvine
6.02 [44] Play of the Month: ROSS
18-Oct-1970 BBC1 UK
written by William Emms & Terence Rattigan
directed by Cedric Messina
starring
Ian McKellen as T.E. Lawrence
Charles Gray
Lawrence's life in the RAF after he turned his back on his life as a
famous war hero. [RF]
6.03 [45] Play of the Month: UNCLE VANYA
08-Nov-1970 BBC1 UK
written by Anton Chekhov
directed by Christopher Morahan
starring
Freddie Jones as Vanya
Anthony Hopkins as Astrov
Ann Bell
Roland Culver as Serebriako
6.04 [46] Play of the Month: FIVE FINGER EXERCISE
24-Dec-1970 BBC1 UK
written by Peter Shaffer
starring
Timothy Dalton
6.05 [47] Play of the Month: ACT OF BETRAYAL
03-Jan-1971 BBC1 UK
written by Hugh Whitemore
directed by William Slater
starring
Michael Gwynn
Marjorie Wimbush
Zena Marshall
6.06 [48] Play of the Month: CANDIDA
21-Feb-1971 BBC1 UK
written by George Bernard Shaw
starring
Timothy Dalton
Jo De Meyere
Clive Revill
6.07 [49] Play of the Month: THE WILD DUCK
21-Mar-1971 BBC1 UK
written by Henrik Ibsen
directed by Alan Bridges
starring
Jenny Agutter
Mark Dignam
Denholm Elliott
Derek Godfrey
Rosemary Leach
6.08 [50] Play of the Month: DON JUAN IN HELL
25-Apr-1971 BBC1 UK
written by George Bernard Shaw
starring
Michael Hordern
Christopher Plummer
Michael Redgrave
Norman Wright as The Devil
6.09 [51] Play of the Month: PLATONOV
23-May-1971 BBC1 UK
written by Anton Chekhov
starring
Rex Harrison as Platonov
Clive Revill
Geoffrey Bayldon
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7.01 [52] Play of the Month: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
26-Sep-1971 BBC1 UK
written by William Shakespeare
directed by James Cellan Jones
starring
Eileen Atkins as Titania
Ronnie Barker as Bottom
Amanda Barrie as Hermia
Eleanor Bron
Edward Fox
Michael Gambon
Lynn Redgrave as Helena
Robert Stephens as Oberon
7.02 [53] Play of the Month: RASPUTIN
24-Oct-1971 BBC1 UK
written by Ronald Eyre
directed by Alan Cooke
starring
Robert Stephens as Rasputin
Peter Barkworth
Lally Bowers
Isabel Dean
T.P. McKenna
7.03 [54] Play of the Month: TARTUFFE
28-Nov-1971 BBC1 UK
written by Moliere
directed by Basil Coleman
starring
John Standing
Michael Hordern
Michael Craig
7.04 [55] Play of the Month: THE CHERRY ORCHARD
19-Dec-1971 BBC1 UK
written by Anton Chekhov
directed by Cedric Messina
starring
Jenny Agutter as Anya
Charles Gray as Gayev
Celia Johnson as Madame Ranyevskaya
Christopher Gable as Trofimov
Gemma Jones as Varya
Edward Woodward
Peggy Ashcroft
Ray Brooks
Laurence Carter
7.05 [56] Play of the Month: SUMMER AND SMOKE
23-Jan-1972 BBC1 UK
written by Tennessee Williams
starring
Lee Remick as Alma Winemiller
David Hedison as John Buchanan
Barry Morse
7.06 [57] Play of the Month: STEPHEN D
20-Feb-1972 BBC1 UK
(no details)
7.07 [58] Play of the Month: THE MERCHANT OF VENICE
16-Apr-1972 BBC1 UK
story by William Shakespeare
directed by Cedric Messina
produced by Gerald Savory
starring
Frank Finlay as Shylock
Christopher Gable as Bassanio
Charles Gray as Antonio
Maggie Smith as Portia
7.08 [59] Play of the Month: LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN
15-May-1972 BBC1 UK
written by Oscar Wilde
directed by Rudolph Cartier
starring
Ronald Hines as Lord Windermere
Derek Godfrey as Lord Darlington
Charles Gray as Lord Augustus
Anthony Sharp as Mr. Dumby
James Villiers as Cecil Graham
Noel Trevarthen as Mr. Hopper
Lee Fox as Parker
Judy Geeson as Lady Windermere
Siân Phillips as The Duchesse of Berwich
Liza Goddard as Lady Agatha
Sheila Brennan as Lady Plymdale
Noel Hood as Lady Jedburgh
Coral Browne as Mrs. Erlynne
Sandra Hall as Rosalie
7.09 [60] Play of the Month: TRELAWNY OF THE "WELLS"
13-Aug-1972 BBC1 UK
written by Arthur Wing Pinero
directed by Herbert Wise
starring
John Alderton as Tom Wrench
Lally Bowers as Mrs. Telfer
Graham Crowden as James Telfer
Roland Culver as Sir William Gower
Rachel Kempson as Miss Trafalgar Gower
Ian Ogilvy as Arthur Gower
Moira Redmond as Imogen Parrott
Elizabeth Seal as Avonia Bunn
Elaine Taylor as Rose Trelawny
Anthony Ainley as Ferdinand Gadd
Lila Kaye as Mrs. Mossop
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8.01 [61] Play of the Month: THE MILLIONAIRESS
15-Sep-1972 ?? / 25-Sep-1972 BBC1 UK
story by George Bernard Shaw
directed by William Slater
produced by Cedric Messina
starring
Dawn Addams
Avril Angers
Tom Baker as Dr. Ahmed el Kabir
Peter Barkworth
Charles Gray
Priscilla Morgan
Donald Pickering
Maggie Smith
James Villiers
8.02 [62] Play of the Month: HEDDA GABLER
20-Oct-1972 BBC1 UK
written by Henrik Ibsen
directed by Waris Hussein
starring
Janet Suzman as Hedda Gabler
Ian McKellen as George Tesman
Jane Asher
Tom Bell
Dorothy Reynolds
8.03 [63] Play of the Month: KING OEDIPUS
24-Nov-1972 BBC1 UK
written by Sophocles
starring
Ian Holm
Alan Webb
Sheila Allen
8.04 [64] Play of the Month: THE MAGISTRATE
20-Dec-1972 BBC1 UK
written by Arthur Wing Pinero
directed by Bill Hays
produced by Cedric Messina
starring
Leonard Rossiter as Colonel Lukyn
Ken Jones
Michael Horden
Anna Calder-Marshall
A woman lies about her age in order to marry her second husband,
thereby making her son by her first marriage to be fourteen instead of his
real nineteen years. Her first husband returns from India and the truth
outs itself, despite her attempts to conceal it. [RF]
*Note the tapes for this episode no longer exist.
8.05 [65] Play of the Month: THE ADVENTURES OF DON QUIXOTE
07-Jan-1973 BBC1 UK
written by J.M. Cohen
story by Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra
directed by Alvin Rakoff
starring
Rex Harrison as Don Quixote
Frank Finlay as Sancho Panza
Rosemary Leach as Dulcinea
Robert Eddison as Duke
Bernard Hepton as Village Priest
Paul Whitsun-Jones as Innkeeper
Murray Melvin as Barber
Roger Delgado as Officer of the Holy Brotherhood
Ronald Lacey as Monk
Gwen Nelson as Housekeeper
Françoise Pacal
Brian Spink
John Hollis
Walter Sparrow
Michael Golden
8.06 [66] Play of the Month: CANDIDE
16-Feb-1973 BBC1 UK
written by Voltaire
directed by James MacTaggart
starring
Ian Oglivy
Angela Richards
Frank Finlay as Voltaire
8.07 [67] Play of the Month: A ROOM WITH A VIEW
15-Apr-1973 BBC1 UK
written by Pauline MacCaulay
story by E.M. Forster
directed by Donald McWhinnie
produced by Cedric Messina
starring
Judy Geeson as Lucy Honeychurch
Charles Gray
Robert Coote
Tom Chabon
Lally Bowers
Lucy Honeychurch finds romance whilst travelling around Italy during
the Edwardian era. [RF]
8.08 [68] Play of the Month: THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE
16-May-1973 BBC1 UK
(no details)
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9.01 [69] Play of the Month: THE LOVE GIRL AND THE INNOCENT
16-Sep-1973 BBC1 UK Sunday 8.15pm
written by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
starring
David Leeland
Gabrielle Lloyd
9.02 [70] Play of the Month: THE COMMON
21-Oct-1973 BBC1 UK
written by Peter Nichols
starring
Peter Jeffrey
Vivien Merchant
Gwen Taylor
Dennis Waterman
9.03 [71] Play of the Month: THE RECRUITING OFFICER
18-Nov-1973 BBC1 UK
written by George Farquhar
directed by David Giles
starring
Ian McKellen as Captain Plume
Brian Blessed as Sergeant Kita
9.04 [72] Play of the Month: PYGMALION
16-Dec-1973 BBC1 UK
written by George Bernard Shaw
directed by John Glenister
starring
James Villers as Professor Henry Higgins
Twiggy
Robert Powell
9.05 [73] Play of the Month: THE CHANGELING
20-Jan-1974 BBC1 UK
written by Thomas Middleton
starring
Helen Mirren as Beatrice-Joanna
Stanley Baker as DeFlores
9.06 [74] Play of the Month: THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
17-Feb-1974 BBC1 UK
written by Oscar Wilde
starring
Celia Bannerman as Cecily
Michael Jayston
9.07 [75] Play of the Month: THE DEEP BLUE SEA
17-Mar-1974 BBC1 UK
written by Terence Rattigan
directed by Rudolph Cartier
starring
Hilary Mason
9.08 [76] Play of the Month: THE SKIN GAME
19-May-1974 BBC1 UK
written by John Galsworthy
starring
Judy Geeson
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10.01 [77] Play of the Month: THE LINDEN TREE
8Sep74 BBC1 Sunday 8.15-10.15pm
written by J.B. Priestley
directed by Moira Armstrong
starring:
Andrew Cruickshank
Margaret Tyzack
Gary Bond
Joanna Van Gyseghen
Maryln Taylorson
starring [RF]
Lou Wakefield as Edith Westmore
Tina Heath
10.02 [78] Play of the Month: ELECTRA
24-Oct-1974 BBC1 UK
written by Sophocles
directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg
starring
Julian Glover
Eileen Atkins
Rosalie Crutchley
10.03 [79] Play of the Month: THE WOOD DEMON
17-Nov-1974 BBC1 UK
written by Anton Chekhov
directed by Donald McWhinnie
starring
Francesca Annis
Geoffrey Bayldon
Ronald Fraser
Ronald Hines
Ian Holm
Donal McCann
Angela Pleasence
Vickery Turner
10.04 [80] Play of the Month: ROBINSON CRUSOE
29-Dec-1974 BBC1 UK
written by Daniel Defoe
adapted by James MacTaggart
directed by James MacTaggart
starring
Stanley Baker as Robinson Crusoe
Ram John Holder as Friday
Jerome Willis as The Sea Captain
10.05 [81] Play of the Month: THE APPLE CART
19-Jan-1975 BBC1 UK
written by George Bernard Shaw
starring
Peter Barkworth
Trevor Baxter as Crassus
Nigel Davenport
Bill Fraser
Helen Mirren as Orinthia
Beryl Reid as Amanda
10.06 [82] Play of the Month: THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL
16-Feb-1975 BBC1 UK
written by Richard B. Sheridan
directed by Stuart Burge
starring
Jeremy Brett as Joseph Surface
Bridget Armstrong
Edward Fox
Pauline Collins
Constance Chapman
Bernard Lee
Arthur Lowe
Joe Melia
10.07 [83] Play of the Month: KING LEAR
23-Mar-1975 BBC1 UK
written by William Shakespeare
directed by Jonathan Miller
starring
Sarah Badel as Goneril
Angela Down as Cordelia
Michael Hordern as King Lear
Michael Jayston as Edmund
Frank Middlemass as Fool
Anthony Nicholls
Ronald Pickup as Edgar
Penelope Wilton as Regan
10.08 [84] Play of the Month: STRIFE
18-May-1975 BBC1 UK
written by John Galsworthy
directed by Michael Darlow
starring
Colin Blakely
Trevor Cooper
Clifford Evans
Howard Lew Lewis
Hu Pryce
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11.01 [85] Play of the Month: CHIPS WITH EVERYTHING
28-Sep-1975 BBC1 UK Sunday 8.15-10.15pm
written by Arnold Wesker
starring
David Troughton
11.02 [86] Play of the Month: THE LITTLE MINISTER
02-Nov-1975 BBC1 UK
written by James M. Barrie
starring
Helen Mirren as Babbie
11.03 [87] Play of the Month: LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST
14-Dec-1975 BBC1 UK
starring
Jeremy Brett as Berowne
11.04 [88] Play of the Month: WHEN WE ARE MARRIED
29-Dec-1975 BBC1 UK, Monday
written by J.B. Priestley
directed by David Giles
starring
Ronnie Barker
Thora Hird
Richard Pearson
Eric Porter
Beryl Reid as Maria
Patricia Routledge
11.05 [89] Play of the Month: TRILBY
25-Jan-1976 BBC1 UK
written by George L. DuMaurier
starring
Alan Badel as Svengali
11.06 [90] Play of the Month: LOYALTIES
29-Feb-1976 BBC1 UK
written by John Galsworthy
directed by Rudolph Cartier
starring
Edward Fox
Dinah Sheridan
John Carson
11.07 [91] Play of the Month: THE CHESTER MYSTERY CYCLE
18-Apr-1976 BBC1 UK
starring
Sam Kelly
Michael Hordern
11.08 [92] Play of the Month: FRENCH WITHOUT TEARS
16-May-1976 BBC1 UK
written by Terence Rattigan & Anatole de Grunwald
starring
Anthony Andrews
Nicola Pagett
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12.01 [93] Play of the Month: THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY
19-Sep-1976 BBC1 UK
written by John Osborne
story by Oscar Wilde
directed by John Gorrie
starring
John Gielgud as Lord Henry Wotton
Jeremy Brett as Basil Hallward
Peter Firth as Dorian Gray
Mark Dignam as Lord Fermor
Nan Munro as Duchess of Harley
Gwen Ffrangcon Davies as Lady Agatha
Michael Barrington as Mr. Erskine
Judi Bowker as Sibyl Vane
Gillian Raine as Mrs. Vane
Nicholas Ball as James Vane
Lawrence Davidson as Victor
Reginald Barratt as Mr. Hubbard
Paul Greenhalgh as Francis
Nicholas Clay as Alan Campbell
12.02 [94] Play of the Month: LONDON ASSURANCE
10-Oct-1976 BBC1 UK
written by Dion Boucicault
starring
Anthony Andrews as Charles Courtly
12.03 [95] Play of the Month: LOOK BACK IN ANGER
210Nov-1976 BBC1 UK
written by John Osborne
12.04 [96] Play of the Month: THE WINSLOW BOY
16-Jan-1977 BBC1 UK
written by Terence Rattigan
starring
Eric Porter
Jonathan Scott-Taylor as Ronnie Winslow
12.05 [97] Play of the Month: THE COUNTRY WIFE
13-Feb-1977 BBC1 UK
written by William Wycherley
starring
Anthony Andrews as Horner
12.06 [98] Play of the Month: THE AMBASSADORS
13-Mar-1977 BBC1 UK
written by Henry James
directed by James Cellan Jones
starring
David Huffman as Chad
Gayle Hunnicutt as Sarah Pocock
Lee Remick as Maria Gostrey
Paul Scofield as Lambert Strether
Delphine Seyrig as Marie de Vionnet
Don Fellows as Waymarsh
Toria Fuller as Mamie
Weston Gavin as Jim Pocock
12.07 [99] Play of the Month: HEARTBREAK HOUSE
19-May-1977 BBC1 UK
written by George Bernard Shaw
starring
Lesley-Anne Down
John Gielgu
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13.01 [100] Play of the Month: YOU NEVER CAN TELL
30-Oct-1977 BBC1 UK
written by George Bernard Shaw
starring
Patrick Magee
Cyril Cusack
13.02 [101] Play of the Month: WASTE
04-Dec-1977 BBC1 UK
written by Harley Granville-Barker
starring
Paul Daneman
Hannah Gordon
13.03 [102] Play of the Month: FLINT
15-Jan-1978 BBC1 UK
starring
Peter Bowles
Julie Covington
John Le Mesurier
Dandy Nichols
Beryl Reid as Victoria
13.04 [103] Play of the Month: THE SEAGULL
05-Feb-1978 BBC1 UK
written by Anton Chekhov
starring
Georgina Hale as Masha
Michael Gambon
(earlier version - see #28 - 17Nov68)
13.05 [104] Play of the Month: THE BEAUX STRATAGEM
02-Apr-1978 BBC1 UK
written by George Farquhar
13.06 [105] Play of the Month: DANTON'S DEATH
23-Apr-1978 BBC1 UK
written by Stuart Griffiths
directed by Alan Clarke
starring
Norman Rodway as Danton
Ian Richardson as Robespierre
Don Henderson
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14.01 [106] Play of the Month: KEAN
26-Nov-1978 BBC1 UK
(no details)
14.02 [107] Play of the Month: MARYA
14-Jan-1979 BBC1 UK
written by Isaak Babel
starring
Clive Revill
14.03 [108] Play of the Month: THE VOYSEY INHERITANCE
04-Feb-1979 BBC1 UK
written by Harley Granville-Barker
directed by Robert Knights
starring
Jeremy Irons
Jeremy Child
Julie Covington
Edward Fox
Dulcie Gray
Brewster Mason
Emma Piper
Wensley Pithey
Roger Rees
14.04 [109] Play of the Month: HELLO AND GOODBYE
04-Mar-1979 BBC1 UK
(no details)
14.05 [110] Play of the Month: THE WINGS OF THE DOVE
08-Apr-1979 BBC1 UK
story by Henry James
starring
Suzanne Bertish as Kate Croy
John Castle as Merton Densher
14.06 [111] Play of the Month: DESIGN FOR LIVING
06-May-1979 BBC1 UK
Written by Noel Coward
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(no new plays produced)
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############## season 1980-81 ###############
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(no new plays produced)
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############# season 15 1981-82 ##############
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[112] Play of the Month: I HAVE BEEN HERE BEFORE
24-May-1982 BBC1 UK
(no details)
[113] Play of the Month: ON APPROVAL
21-Jun-1982 BBC1 UK
written by Frederick Lonsdale
starring
Jeremy Brett as George, Duke of Bristol
Penelope Keith as Maria Wislack
Lindsay Duncan as Helen Hale
Benjamin Whitrow as Richard Halton
[114] Play of the Month: LITTLE EYOLF
19-Jul-1982 BBC1 UK
written by Henrik Ibsen
adapted by Michael Meyer
directed by Michael Darlow
starring
Anthony Hopkins as Alfred Allmers
Peggy Ashcroft as The Rat Wife
Emma Piper as Asta
Diana Rigg as Rita Allmers
[115] Play of the Month: THE CRITIC
23-Aug-1982 BBC1 UK
(no details)
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[116] Play of the Month: THE WHITE GUARD
20-Sep-82 BBC1 UK
(no details)
[117] Play of the Month: DANGEROUS CORNER
22-May-1983 BBC1 UK
(no details)
[118] Play of the Month: THE GAY LORD QUEX
13-Jun-1983 BBC1 UK
written by Arthur Wing Pinero
directed by Claude Whatham
starring
Anton Rodgers
Paul Raffield
[119] Play of the Month: INFIDELITIES (last in series)
12-Sep-1983 BBC1 UK
written by Pierre de Marivaux
starring
Robin Askwith as Alec
James Aubrey as The Prince
Leonie Mellinger as Silvia
Charlotte Rampling as Flaminia
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[--] CERTAIN LACK OF COMMUNICATION
date unknown
starring
Albert Moses
[--] : THE GARLAND
date unknown
starring
Albert Moses
[--] : THE PEDLAR
(no details