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 9)
The Love Girl and the Innocent (Episode 1)
Writer: Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
Air date: 1973-09-16
Runtime: 127 min
Overview: Nemov is an honest man serving a term of 10 years for violations of Article 58. Nemov falls in love with Lyuba, who is having sex with the camp doctor Mereshchun, in exchange for better food and living conditions.
The Common (Episode 2)
Writer: Peter Nichols
Air date: 1973-10-27
Overview: An exploration of the relationship between two couples from different social classes: one wealthy and Conservative, one poor and socialist.
The Recruiting Officer (Episode 3)
Writer: George Farquhar
Air date: 1973-10-18
Overview: Scoundrels are put on notice and women (literally) wear the pants in this uproarious comedy. Recruiting officers travel from port to port wooing men into service at sea, and women into their beds. Two such men, Worthy and Plume, land in Shrewsbury each in love with a woman who lives there.
Pygmalion (Episode 4)
Writer: George Bernard Shaw
Air date: 1973-12-16
Runtime: 120 min
Overview: When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet. Eliza moves into Higgins's home and begins her rigorous training after the professor comes to a financial agreement with her dustman father, Alfred. But the plucky young woman is not the only one undergoing a transformation.
The Changeling (Episode 5)
Writer: William Rowley
Air date: 1974-01-20
Runtime: 103 min
Overview: A woman falls in love with a sea captain, and plots to kill her fiance.
The Importance of Being Earnest (Episode 6)
Writer: Oscar Wilde
Air date: 1974-02-17
Runtime: 100 min
Overview: Two young gentlemen living in 1890s England use the same pseudonym ('Ernest') on the sly, which is fine until they both fall in love with women using that name, which leads to a comedy of mistaken identities.
The Deep Blue Sea (Episode 7)
Writer: Terence Rattigan
Air date: 1974-03-17
Overview: A woman unhappy in her passionless marriage leaves her husband for a younger and more ardent lover.
The Skin Game (Episode 8)
Writer: John Galsworthy
Air date: 1974-05-19
Overview: The rivalry between a wealthy businessman and his lower-class, self-made rival gets very personal indeed.
Mrs. Warren's Profession (Episode 9)
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