BBC Play of the Month (Staffel 13)

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 You Never Can Tell

    You Never Can Tell (Folge 1)

    Autor: George Bernard Shaw

    Sendedatum: 1977-10-30

    Laufzeit: 120 min

    Übersicht: A dentist falls in love and a family accidentally meet the father they have never known.

  • Poster for Waste

    Waste (Folge 2)

    Autor: Harley Granville-Barker

    Sendedatum: 1977-12-04

    Laufzeit: 120 min

    Übersicht: Centres around ambitious independent politician Henry Trebell, his plans for a bill to disestablish the Church of England, and his fall from grace and suicide after his affair with a married woman who dies following a botched abortion.

  • Poster for Flint

    Flint (Folge 3)

    Autor: David Mercer

    Sendedatum: 1978-01-15

    Laufzeit: 120 min

    Übersicht: Ossian Flint is an elderly Anglican vicar whose way of life has long been the cause of scandal. He has had as little respect for the seventh commandment during nearly half a century of married life as he has had faith since his ordination. The winter of his life is transformed by his encounter with Dixie, a simple young Irish hirl, unmarried and pregnant, late of Holloway prison.

  • Poster for The Seagull

    The Seagull (Folge 4)

    Autor: Ronald Hingley

    Sendedatum: 1978-02-05

    Laufzeit: 125 min

    Übersicht: A group of friends and relations gather at a country estate to see the first performance of an experimental play written and staged by the young man of the house, Konstantin, an aspiring writer who dreams of bringing new forms to the theatre.

  • Poster for The Sea

    The Sea (Folge 5)

    Autor: Edward Bond

    Sendedatum: 1978-03-05

    Laufzeit: 90 min

    Übersicht: In 1907, after a tempestuous storm claims the life of a well-known and loved member of the community, the reactions of the villagers are explored, as well as the attempts by two young lovers to break away from the constraints of the hierarchical, and sometimes irrational, society.

  • Poster for The Beaux Stratagem

    The Beaux Stratagem (Folge 6)

    Autor: George Farquhar

    Sendedatum: 1978-04-02

    Laufzeit: 90 min

    Übersicht: Two gentlemen have fallen on hard times, so they plan to travel through small towns, entrap young heiresses, steal their money and move on, but romance gets in the way.

  • Poster for Danton's Death

    Danton's Death (Folge 7)

    Autor: Alan Clarke

    Sendedatum: 1978-04-23

    Laufzeit: 95 min

    Übersicht: Georges Danton, a leader of the French Revolution, created the office of the Revolutionary Tribunal as a strong arm for the Revolutionary Government. Within months, he knew this power was a terrible mistake and fought to have it ended with tragic consequences.

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