BBC Play of the Month (1965)
Play of the Month is a BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays which were 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; the producer most associated with the Play of the Month was Cedric Messina. Some of the 121 episodes are missing from the archives, having been junked in the 1960s and 1970s. Unless stated otherwise, the indication that the play is "lost" is taken from the lostshows.com website page as of 25 May 2013.
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Episode 1 - Chips with Everything
Release Date: 1975-09-28 -
Episode 2 - The Little Minister
Release Date: 1975-11-02Ian Ogilvy and Helen Mirren star in this adaptation of JM Barries’ play, set in rural 1840s Scotland. A local priest falls in love with a gypsy girl who incites a Luddite riot.
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Episode 3 - Love's Labour's Lost
Release Date: 1975-12-14The King of Navarre and three of his Lords swear to avoid women for three years. But the unexpected arrival of the Princess of France and her Ladies changes matters.
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Episode 4 - When We Are Married
Release Date: 1975-12-29 -
Episode 5 - Trilby
Release Date: 1976-01-24 -
Episode 6 - Loyalties
Release Date: 1976-02-28 -
Episode 7 - The Chester Mystery Cycle
Release Date: 1976-04-18 -
Episode 8 - French Without Tears
Release Date: 1976-05-16Play by Terence Rattigan. The comic, sometimes painful, fallings-out of five young male English students in France.