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.
BBC Play of the Month (Season 3)
Girls in Uniform (Episode 1)
Air date: 1967-10-15
The Moon and Sixpence (Episode 2)
Writer: Clive Exton
Air date: 1967-11-12
Overview: Loosely inspired from Gauguin's life, Charles Strickland is a middle-aged stockbroker who abandons his middle-classed life, his family, his duties to start painting, what he has always wanted to do. He is from now on a awful human being, wholly devoted to his ideal: beauty.
Romeo and Juliet (Episode 3)
Air date: 1967-12-03
Runtime: 125 min
Overview: Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet fall in love against the wishes of their feuding families. Driven by their passion, the young lovers defy their destiny and elope, only to suffer the ultimate tragedy.
The Parachute (Episode 4)
Writer: David Mercer
Air date: 1968-01-21
Runtime: 77 min
Overview: As the Nazis grow ever more powerful, Werner Roger grows up in an aristocratic household, hating his domineering father and making enemies in high places.
Cyrano de Bergerac (Episode 5)
Air date: 1968-02-11
Overview: Long-nosed Cyrano de Bergerac helps an army officer woo Roxanne, the woman he loves.
Ghosts (Episode 6)
Air date: 1968-03-17
Overview: A young student idealizes the lives of the inhabitants of a stylish Stockholm apartment building, only to find that it a nest of betrayal and sickness.
The Corn Is Green (Episode 7)
Air date: 1968-04-14
Runtime: 120 min
Overview: A schoolteacher mentors a talented young miner and seeks to get him into a university.
The Tempest (Episode 8)
Air date: 1968-05-12
Overview: The magician Prospero, once Duke of Milan, now rules a small, enchanted island – but a storm brings visitors from the past.
The Old Ladies (Episode 9)
Writer: Rodney Ackland
Air date: 1968-06-09
Overview: A trio of middle-aged women set up housekeeping together.
Man and Superman (Episode 10)
Air date: 1968-07-07
Overview: John Tanner is determined not to lose his independence - which comes under threat when he falls in love with an ardent feminist.
Hay Fever (Episode 11)
Writer: Noël Coward
Air date: 1968-08-04
Runtime: 90 min
Overview: Weekend guests of the Bliss family finds their hosts distinctly eccentric.
Seasons
Episodes 9
Episodes 5
Episodes 11
Episodes 9
Episodes 8
Episodes 9
Episodes 11
Episodes 10
Episodes 9
Episodes 9
Episodes 8
Episodes 7
Episodes 7
Episodes 7
Episodes 5
Episodes 4