S1 E1 · Luther
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BBC Play of the Month
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MovieNerd ScorePlay 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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Episodes
Season 1
9 episodes
S1 E2 · 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.
S1 E3 · The Joel Brand Story
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S1 E4 · Gordon of Khartoum
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S1 E5 · Where Angels Fear to Tread
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S1 E6 · Lee Oswald - Assassin
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S1 E7 · Make Me an Offer
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S1 E8 · Death of a Salesman
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S1 E9 · The Devil's Eggshell
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Season 2
5 episodes
S2 E1 · Defection! The Case of Colonel Petrov
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S2 E2 · Days to Come
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S2 E3 · Corridors of Power
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S2 E4 · The Making of Jericho
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S2 E5 · The Cabinet Makers
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Season 3
11 episodes
S3 E1 · Girls in Uniform
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S3 E2 · The Moon and Sixpence
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S3 E3 · Romeo and Juliet
Alan Cooke's TV adaptation of the classic shakespeare play, starring Kika Markham and Hywel Bennet as the star-crossed lovers of Verona.
S3 E4 · The Parachute
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S3 E5 · Cyrano de Bergerac
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S3 E6 · Ghosts
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S3 E7 · The Corn Is Green
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S3 E8 · The Tempest
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S3 E9 · The Old Ladies
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S3 E10 · Man and Superman
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S3 E11 · Hay Fever
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Season 4
9 episodes
S4 E1 · St. Joan
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S4 E2 · The Male Animal
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S4 E3 · The Seagull
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S4 E4 · Waters of the Moon
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S4 E5 · Mary Queen of Scots
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S4 E6 · Maigret at Bay
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S4 E7 · Relatively Speaking
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S4 E8 · Julius Caesar
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S4 E9 · An Ideal Husband
Adaptation of the classic Oscar Wilde play involving blackmail and political corruption. Starring Margaret Leighton, Jeremy Brett and Susan Hampshire.
Season 5
8 episodes
S5 E1 · The Heiress
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S5 E2 · Charley's Aunt
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S5 E3 · The Marquis
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S5 E4 · Three Sisters
Anton Chekhov's famous drama on the lives of sisters Irena, Masha and Olga in a provincial Russian town. Translated by Elisaveta Fen.
S5 E5 · In Good King Charles's Golden Days
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S5 E6 · Separate Tables
A play by Terrence Rattigan. The stories of several people are told as they stay at a seaside hotel in Bournemouth.
S5 E7 · Howards End
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S5 E8 · The Rivals
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Season 6
9 episodes
S6 E1 · Macbeth
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S6 E2 · Ross
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S6 E3 · Uncle Vanya
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S6 E4 · Five Finger Exercise
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S6 E5 · Act of Betrayal
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S6 E6 · Candida
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S6 E7 · The Wild Duck
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S6 E8 · Don Juan in Hell
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S6 E9 · Platonov
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Season 7
11 episodes
S7 E1 · A Midsummer Night's Dream
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S7 E2 · Rasputin
Robert Stephens stars in a drama about the mysterious peasant monk who held enormous influence at the Russian court for over a decade, before his murder in 1916.
S7 E3 · Tartuffe
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S7 E4 · The Cherry Orchard
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S7 E5 · Summer and Smoke
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S7 E6 · Stephen D
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S7 E7 · The Merchant of Venice
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S7 E8 · Lady Windermere's Fan
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S7 E9 · The Playboy of the Western World
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S7 E10 · She Stoops to Conquer
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S7 E11 · Trelawny of the "Wells"
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Season 8
10 episodes
S8 E1 · The Millionairess
Play by Bernard Shaw. An Indian doctor meets Epifania, a willful and arrogant heiress who is stuck in a dull marriage in order to satisfy the conditions of her father's will.
S8 E2 · Hedda Gabler
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S8 E3 · King Oedipus
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S8 E4 · The Magistrate
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S8 E5 · The Adventures of Don Quixote
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S8 E6 · Candide
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S8 E7 · A Room with a View
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S8 E8 · The Caucasian Chalk Circle
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S8 E9 · The Duchess of Malfi
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S8 E10 · Peer Gynt
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Season 9
9 episodes
S9 E1 · The Love Girl and the Innocent
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S9 E2 · The Common
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S9 E3 · The Recruiting Officer
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S9 E4 · Pygmalion
A play by George Bernard Shaw, starring James Villiers as the egotistical Professor Henry Higgins and Lynn Redgrave as the east end flower girl Eliza Doolittle
S9 E5 · The Importance of Being Earnest
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S9 E6 · The Changeling
Beatrice-Joanna is betrothed to Lord Alonzo de Piraquo but is in love with Alsemero. She hires her father's manservant, De Flores, to kill Alonzo but after he has done so, she realises De Flores wants her as a reward. Stanley Baker and Helen Mirren in the lead roles.
S9 E7 · The Deep Blue Sea
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S9 E8 · Mrs. Warren's Profession
Written by George Bernard Shaw in 1893, and first performed in London in 1902. The play is about a former prostitute, now a madam, who attempts to come to terms with her disapproving daughter.
S9 E9 · The Skin Game
The rivalry between a wealthy businessman and his lower-class, self-made rival gets very personal indeed.
Season 10
9 episodes
S10 E1 · The Linden Tree
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S10 E2 · Electra
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S10 E3 · The Wood Demon
Adaptation of the classic play by Chekhov, starring Ian Holm. A lunch party gathers to celebrate Leo Zheltukhin's birthday.
S10 E4 · Robinson Crusoe
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S10 E5 · The Apple Cart
Play by Bernard Shaw. The plot follows King Magnus as he spars with Prime Minister Proteus and his cabinet, who seek to strip the monarchy of its remaining political influence.
S10 E6 · The School for Scandal
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S10 E7 · King Lear
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S10 E8 · The Shadow of a Gunman
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S10 E9 · Strife
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Season 11
8 episodes
S11 E1 · Chips with Everything
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S11 E2 · The Little Minister
Ian 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.
S11 E3 · Love's Labour's Lost
The 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.
S11 E4 · When We Are Married
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S11 E5 · Trilby
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S11 E6 · Loyalties
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S11 E7 · The Chester Mystery Cycle
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S11 E8 · French Without Tears
Play by Terence Rattigan. The comic, sometimes painful, fallings-out of five young male English students in France.
Season 12
7 episodes
S12 E1 · The Picture of Dorian Gray
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S12 E2 · London Assurance
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S12 E3 · Look Back in Anger
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S12 E4 · The Winslow Boy
A play by Terence Rattigan. The term at Osborne Naval College is not yet over. Why, therefore, has cadet Ronnie Winslow returned home? And why is he hiding in the garden?
S12 E5 · The Country Wife
Play by William Wycherley. Pinchwife brings his simple young wife Margery to London for his sister's wedding.
S12 E6 · The Ambassadors
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S12 E7 · Heartbreak House
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Season 13
7 episodes
S13 E1 · You Never Can Tell
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S13 E2 · Waste
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S13 E3 · Flint
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S13 E4 · The Seagull
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S13 E5 · The Sea
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S13 E6 · The Beaux Stratagem
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S13 E7 · Danton's Death
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Season 14
7 episodes
S14 E1 · Kean
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S14 E2 · Marya
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S14 E3 · The Voysey Inheritance
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S14 E4 · Hello and Goodbye
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S14 E5 · The Wings of the Dove
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S14 E6 · Design for Living
Noel Coward's play about Gilda and her attempts to share her love with two men while marrying a third.
S14 E7 · The Kitchen
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Season 15
5 episodes
S15 E1 · I Have Been Here Before
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S15 E2 · On Approval
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S15 E3 · Little Eyolf
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S15 E4 · The Critic
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S15 E5 · The White Guard
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Season 16
4 episodes
S16 E1 · Dangerous Corner
Dangerous Corner is a TV episode of BBC Play of the Month written by J.B. Priestley and directed by James Ormerod.
S16 E2 · The Gay Lord Quex
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S16 E3 · The Misanthrope
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S16 E4 · Infidelities
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