BBC Play of the Month (Season 10)

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 The Linden Tree

    The Linden Tree (Episode 1)

    Writer: J. B. Priestley

    Air date: 1974-09-08

    Overview: In 1947 England, in the home of Professor Robert Linden, chair of modern history at the provincial University of Burmanley, rationing and austerity seem to have fostered opportunism, escapism and confrontation within the Linden family, gathered to celebrate Robert's 65th birthday and each of whom is struggling with their own crises.

  • Poster for Electra

    Electra (Episode 2)

    Air date: 1974-10-24

    Overview: In the city of Mycenae, a few years after the Trojan War, a bitter struggle for justice is undertaken by Electra and her brother Orestes for the murder of their father Agamemnon by Clytemnestra and their stepfather Aegisthus.

  • Poster for The Wood Demon

    The Wood Demon (Episode 3)

    Writer: Ronald Hingley

    Air date: 1974-10-17

    Runtime: 110 min

    Overview: A luncheon party gathers to celebrate a wealthy unmarried man's birthday; his sister hopes he'll marry Sonya, the daughter of a selfish gout-ridden old professor who makes life Hell for his son George and his young wife, Helen.

  • Poster for Robinson Crusoe

    Robinson Crusoe (Episode 4)

    Writer: James MacTaggart

    Air date: 1974-11-29

    Runtime: 120 min

    Overview: An English slave trader is marooned on a remote tropical island, forced to fend for himself and deal with crushing loneliness.

  • Poster for The Apple Cart

    The Apple Cart (Episode 5)

    Writer: George Bernard Shaw

    Air date: 1975-01-19

    Runtime: 115 min

    Overview: King Magnus's position as monarch is in danger – can he 'upset the apple cart' and preserve his throne?

  • Poster for The School for Scandal

    The School for Scandal (Episode 6)

    Writer: Richard B. Sheridan

    Air date: 1975-02-16

    Overview: Scandalmonger Lady Sneerwell controls a nest of gossipy vipers, and young Lady Teazle, bored by her elderly husband Sir Peter, has been lured into the circle too.

  • Poster for King Lear

    King Lear (Episode 7)

    Air date: 1975-03-23

    Overview: An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.

  • Poster for Strife

    Strife (Episode 8)

    Writer: John Galsworthy

    Air date: 1975-05-18

    Overview: A personal dispute between a union leader and a management leader causes chaos for workers at a troublesome tin mining company.

  • Poster for The Shadow of a Gunman

    The Shadow of a Gunman (Episode 9)

    Air date: 1975-04-20

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