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BBC Play of the Month

196516 Seasons90m episodes5.2

Drama

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Runtime: 90m episodes
Genre: Drama
Origin: GB

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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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Status: Ended
First aired: Oct 19, 1965
Network: BBC One
Studio: BBC

Time to finish

192 hrs

128 episodes. About 28 weeks at an hour a night.

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BBC Play of the Month

196516 Seasons90m episodes5.2

Drama

TMDB5.2

Votes8

Your rating

Runtime: 90m episodes
Genre: Drama
Origin: GB

About

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.

Where to watch

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Not available to stream in United States yet.

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E1 · Airs Oct 19, 1965
Luther
During the early 16th century, idealistic German monk Martin Luther, disgusted by the materialism in the church, begins the dialogue that will lead to the Protestant Reformation.
E2 · Airs Nov 16, 1965 · 1h 50m
A Passage to India
Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator.
E3 · Airs Dec 14, 1965 · 1h 30m
The Joel Brand Story
E4 · Airs Jan 18, 1966
Gordon of Khartoum
The story of Charles 'Chinese' Gordon, a brilliant but eccentric military commander, and his death defending Khartoum in 1885.
E5 · Airs Feb 15, 1966
Where Angels Fear to Tread
After a rich Edwardian widow impulsively marries a handsome but poor Tuscan dentist and dies in childbirth, her English in-laws try to gain custody of the baby.
E6 · Airs Mar 15, 1966 · 1h 30m · ★ 8.0
Lee Oswald: Assassin
The life of Lee Harvey Oswald, the man who shot President John F. Kennedy, as reported to the Warren Commission enquiry into the circumstances of the assassination.
E7 · Airs Apr 12, 1966
Make Me an Offer
Antique dealer Charlie yearns to own a beautiful Portland vase.
E8 · Airs May 24, 1966
Death of a Salesman
Willy Loman is an over-the-hill salesman who faces a personal turning point when he loses his job and attempts to make peace with his family: Willy's long-suffering wife Linda, and Biff and Happy, his troubled sons and his life.
E9 · Airs Jun 28, 1966
The Devil's Eggshell
The discovery of mysterious egg-shaped objects at the sites of a series of disasters lead people to believe that we are being attacked by alien beings, but it is revealed to be a conspiracy hatched by a team of scientists intent on using an alien menace to unite the world. But their scheme backfires with fatal consequences...

Details

Status: Ended
First aired: Oct 19, 1965
Network: BBC One
Studio: BBC

Time to finish

192 hrs

128 episodes. About 28 weeks at an hour a night.

View on IMDb ↗

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