BBC Play of the Month (1965)

Name: BBC Play of the Month
Genre: Drama

★ 5.2 90m/ep Drama Latest: S16 E04

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.

Created by: James MacTaggart
Country: United Kingdom
First aired: October 19, 1965

Seasons

Season 1 · 9 episodes
Season 2 · 5 episodes
Season 3 · 11 episodes
Season 4 · 9 episodes
Season 5 · 8 episodes
Season 6 · 9 episodes
Season 7 · 11 episodes
Season 8 · 10 episodes
Season 9 · 9 episodes
Season 10 · 9 episodes
Season 11 · 8 episodes
Season 12 · 7 episodes
Season 13 · 7 episodes
Season 14 · 7 episodes
Season 15 · 5 episodes
Season 16 · 4 episodes

Season 1 Episodes

1. Luther
During the early 16th century, idealistic German monk Martin Luther, disgusted by the materialism in the church, begins the dialogue that will lead to the Protestant Reformation.
2. 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.
3. The Joel Brand Story
4. Gordon of Khartoum
The story of Charles 'Chinese' Gordon, a brilliant but eccentric military commander, and his death defending Khartoum in 1885.
5. Where Angels Fear to Tread
After a rich Edwardian widow impulsively marries a handsome but poor Tuscan dentist and dies in childbirth, her English in-laws try to gain custody of the baby.
6. Lee Oswald: Assassin
The life of Lee Harvey Oswald, the man who shot President John F. Kennedy, as reported to the Warren Commission enquiry into the circumstances of the assassination.
7. Make Me an Offer
Antique dealer Charlie yearns to own a beautiful Portland vase.
8. Death of a Salesman
Willy Loman is an over-the-hill salesman who faces a personal turning point when he loses his job and attempts to make peace with his family: Willy's long-suffering wife Linda, and Biff and Happy, his troubled sons and his life.
9. The Devil's Eggshell
The discovery of mysterious egg-shaped objects at the sites of a series of disasters lead people to believe that we are being attacked by alien beings, but it is revealed to be a conspiracy hatched by a team of scientists intent on using an alien menace to unite the world. But their scheme backfires with fatal consequences...