Play of the Month
Play of the Month is a BBC television anthology series, which ran from 1965 to 1983 featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays (or adaptations) which were usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles. The series was transmitted regularly from October 1965 to May 1979, before returning for the summer seasons of 1982 and 1983. The producer most associated with the Play of the Month series was Cedric Messina.
| Play of the Month | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Drama Anthology/Classic adaptations |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English (some translations) |
| No. of episodes | 120 (inc. 2 repeats under this title) |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | Peter Luke (1965-66), Cedric Messina (1966-77), others |
| Camera setup | multi-camera/film inserts |
| Production company(s) | BBC |
| Release | |
| Original network | BBC 1 |
| Original release | 19 October 1965 – 12 September 1983 |
| Chronology | |
| Followed by | Theatre Night |
Some of the 120 episodes are missing from the archives, having been junked in the 1960s and 1970s. Unless stated otherwise, the indication that the play is "lost" is taken from the lostshows.com website page as of 21 February 2019.[1] In some cases, the link is to the Play of the Month in question rather than the source text. This is indicated with an asterisk (*).
List of episodes
The main source for compiling this list was the BFI Film & TV database. The website's master list is here. IMDb has also been used as a check, and occasionally as the main source where a substitute is lacking.
Unless stated otherwise, Cedric Messina was the producer.
Legend: Se = Season; Ep = Episode; AS/A = Archive status/Availability
Abbreviations: tr =Telerecording; seq = sequence(s)
| Se | Ep | Title[2] | Author | Producer/Director | Performers | UK Transmission date |
AS/A |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Luther | John Osborne | Alan Cooke (d) | Alec McCowen, Patrick Magee, Geoffrey Bayldon, Ray Barrett, Jerold Wells, Philip Stone, Fulton Mackay, James Cairncross, Douglas Ditta, Peter Purves, Rex Robinson |
19 October 1965 | |
| 1 | 2 | A Passage to India | E. M. Forster (novel); Santha Rama Rau (play); John Maynard (adaptation) |
Peter Luke (p); Waris Hussein (d) |
Sybil Thorndike, Virginia McKenna; Zia Mohyeddin, Cyril Cusack Ishaq Bux, Saeed Jaffrey, John Bryans, Doreen Mantle |
16 November 1965[3] | |
| 1 | 3 | The Joel Brand Story | Alex Weissberg (novel); Heinar Kipphardt (writer); Rudolph Cartier (adaptation) |
Peter Luke (p); Rudolph Cartier (d) |
Cyril Shaps, Zia Mohyeddin, Anton Diffring, Martin Benson, Michael Godfrey, Harold Goldblatt, Pat Gorman, Gertan Klauber, Tutte Lemkow, Peter Howell |
14 December 1965 | lost |
| 1 | 4 | Gordon of Khartoum | Robin Maugham (play, The Last Hero); David Benedictus (adaptation) |
Peter Luke (p), Rudolph Cartier (d) |
Alan Badel, Charles Carson, John Franklyn-Robbins, Gladys Spencer, Cyril Shaps, Roy Stewart |
18 January 1966 | lost |
| 1 | 5 | Where Angels Fear to Tread | E. M. Forster (novel); Elizabeth Hart (adaptation) |
Naomi Capon (d) | Anna Massey, Wendy Hiller, Alec McCowen, Nora Swinburne, André Lawrence |
15 February 1966 | lost |
| 1 | 6 | Lee Oswald Assassin | Felix Lützkendorf (play); Rudolph Cartier & Reed De Rouen (adaptation)[4] |
Peter Luke (p), Rudolph Cartier (d) |
Tony Bill, Dora Reisser, Robert Ayres, Donald Sutherland, Callen Angelo, David Bauer, Glenn Beck, Reed De Rouen, Harold Goldblatt, David Graham, David Healy, Paul Maxwell, Warren Mitchell, Shane Rimmer, Tony Sibbald |
15 March 1966 | |
| 1 | 7 | Make Me an Offer | Wolf Mankowitz (book); David Heneker & Monty Norman (m/ly)[5][6] |
Bill Hays (d) | Diana Coupland, Peter Gilmore, Judith Bruce, Meier Tzelniker, James Grout, Ivor Salter, Patrick O'Connell, Timothy Bateson |
12 April 1966 | lost |
| 1 | 8 | Death of a Salesman* | Arthur Miller | Alan Cooke (d) | Rod Steiger, Betsy Blair, Joss Ackland, Tony Bill, Kenneth J. Warren, David Healy |
24 May 1966 | lost |
| 1 | 9 | The Devil's Eggshell | Alex Comfort (original work); David Weir |
Gareth Davies (d) | Leonard Rossiter, Keith Barron, David Langton, John Phillips, Nicholas Pennell, Bernard Hepton, Burt Kwouk, Michael Culver, Stephanie Bidmead, Anthony Jacobs, Basil Moss, Peter Copley, Godfrey James |
28 June 1966 | |
| 2 | 1 | Defection! The Case of Colonel Petrov | David Bull[7] | Bill Hays (d) | Nigel Stock, Lee Montague, Charles Tingwell, Jerome Willis, Colin Jeavons, James Bree, Willoughby Gray, George Roubicek, George Pastell, Walter Sparrow, Peter van Dissel |
27 September 1966 | |
| 2 | 2 | Days to Come | H. G. Wells (story); Ken Taylor (adaptation) |
Alan Bridges (d) | Dinsdale Landen, Judi Dench, Bernard Archard, John Quentin, Michael Gough, Alan Rowe, Michael Brennan, Norman Mitchell, Richard Coe, Peter Birrel, Yvonne Antrobus, John Caesar, Geoffrey Cheshire, Martin King, Rex Robinson |
25 October 1966 | lost |
| 2 | 3 | Corridors of Power | C. P. Snow (novel); adapted by John Elliot and Sarah Lawson | Raymond Menmuir (d) | Patrick Allen, Alec Clunes, William Mervyn, Joseph Furst, Tenniel Evans, John Tate, Martin Friend, Donald Pickering, Kenneth Waller, Michael Guest, Morris Perry, Andrew Lodge, Eric Elliott, Peter Thompson[8] |
22 November 1966 | lost |
| 2 | 4 | The Making of Jericho | Alun Owen | Bill Hays (d) | John Thaw, Neville Smith, Pauline Collins, Peter Jeffrey,[9] Wendy Richard, Donald Gee, John Scott Martin, Reg Lever, Geoffrey Hughes |
20 December 1966 | lost |
| 2 | 5 | The Cabinet Papers | Maurice Edelman (book); Anthony Steven (adaptation) |
Waris Hussein (d) | Maxine Audley, Griffith Jones, Richard Leech, Gerald Sim, Richard Vernon, Llewellyn Rees, David Garth, John Bryans, Iréna Mayeska, Alan Haywood, John Baker |
14 March 1967 | lost |
| 3 | 1 | Girls in Uniform | Christa Winsloe (play); Derek Ingrey and Sonia Dresdel (adaptation) |
Waris Hussein (d) | Virginia McKenna, Sonia Dresdel, Rachel Kempson, Francesca Annis, Anna Calder-Marshall, Petra Markham, Jan Chappell, Sally Faulkner, Stephanie Bidmead |
15 October 1967[10] | lost |
| 3 | 2 | The Moon and Sixpence | W. Somerset Maugham (novel); Clive Exton (adaptation) |
Donald McWhinnie (d) | Charles Gray, Ronald Hines, Barry Justice, Sylvia Kay, Elisabeth Welch |
12 November 1967 | lost |
| 3 | 3 | Romeo and Juliet | William Shakespeare | Alan Cooke (d) | Hywel Bennett, Kika Markham, John Gielgud, Thora Hird, Michael Gambon, Ronald Pickup, Charles Kay, Edward Burnham, Stephanie Bidmead, Brian Badcoe, David Griffin, Michael Godfrey, Derrick Gilbert |
3 December 1967 | |
| 3 | 4 | The Parachute | David Mercer | Tony Garnett (p); Anthony Page (d) |
Alan Badel, Jill Bennett, John Osborne, Isabel Dean, Esmond Knight, Barry Jackson, Norman Jones, Royston Farrell, Stephen Whittaker, Drewe Henley, John J. Carney |
21 January 1968 | |
| 3 | 5 | Cyrano de Bergerac | Edmond Rostand | James MacTaggart (d) | Eric Porter, Peter Jeffrey, Suzanne Neve, Simon Brent, Jerome Willis, Harold Innocent, Michael Godfrey, Gertan Klauber, Joseph Greig, Steve Peters |
11 February 1968 | lost |
| 3 | 6 | Ghosts | Henrik Ibsen | Michael Elliott (d) | Celia Johnson, Tom Courtenay, Donald Wolfit, Fulton Mackay, Vickery Turner |
17 March 1968 | lost |
| 3 | 7 | The Corn Is Green | Emlyn Williams (play); Harry Green (adaptation) |
Philip Dudley (d) | Wendy Hiller, Ronald Fraser, Stephanie Bidmead, Glyn Houston John Ogwen, Glyn Owen, Mona Bruce |
14 April 1968 | lost |
| 3 | 8 | The Tempest | William Shakespeare | Basil Coleman (d) | Michael Redgrave, Keith Michell, Jonathan Dennis, Ronald Pickup, Tessa Wyatt, John Woodvine, Donald Eccles, James Cairncross, Llewellyn Rees |
12 May 1968 | lost |
| 3 | 9 | The Old Ladies | Rodney Ackland (play); Hugh Walpole (source novel) |
William Slater (d) | Flora Robson, Athene Seyler, Katina Paxinou |
9 June 1968 | lost |
| 3 | 10 | Man and Superman | George Bernard Shaw | James MacTaggart (d) | Eric Porter, Maggie Smith, Adrienne Corri, Rachel Kempson, Cyril Luckham, Angharad Rees, Tony Selby, Godfrey Quigley |
7 July 1968 | seq exist |
| 3 | 11 | Hay Fever | Noël Coward | John Gorrie (d) | Celia Johnson, Anna Massey, Richard Briers, Dennis Price, Charles Gray, Hazel Hughes, Ian McKellen, Vickery Turner, Lucy Fleming |
4 August 1968 | lost |
| 4 | 1 | Saint Joan | George Bernard Shaw | Waris Hussein (d) | Janet Suzman, Hugh Walters, Glyn Owen, Richard Hampton, Murray Melvin, John Bryans, Michael Craig, Maurice Denham, Glyn Owen, Ronald Pickup, Jack Watson, Philip Bond, Jerold Wells |
1 September 1968 | lost |
| 4 | 2 | The Male Animal | James Thurber | Alan Bridges (d) | Lee Montague, Anthony Perkins, Toby Robins, Alan Gifford, Jumoke Debayo, Christopher Benjamin |
13 October 1968 | lost |
| 4 | 3 | The Seagull | Anton Chekhov | Alan Cooke (d) | Pamela Brown, Robert Stephens, Gemma Jones, Robin Phillips, Niall MacGinnis, Michael Gambon |
17 November 1968[11] | |
| 4 | 4 | Waters of the Moon | N. C. Hunter | Herbert Wise (d) | Athene Seyler, Vivien Merchant, Kathleen Harrison, Michael Gwynn, Roland Culver, Margaret Leighton |
24 December 1968 | lost |
| 4 | 5 | Mary, Queen of Scots | Friedrich Schiller (play); Stephen Spender (translation) |
Basil Coleman (d) | Virginia McKenna, Pamela Brown, Derek Godfrey, Peter Cellier, Fanny Rowe, Walter Fitzgerald, John Harvey, Bernard Hepton, Tony Steedman |
12 January 1969 | lost |
| 4 | 6 | Maigret at Bay | Georges Simenon (novel); Donald Bull (adaptation) |
William Slater (d) | Rupert Davies, Helen Shingler, Neville Jason, Gillian Hills, Yootha Joyce, Clive Cazes, Tony Harwood, Geoffrey Morris, Martin Miller, Hans De Vries, Donald Pickering, Murray Evans, Kenneth Benda, Ann Tirard, Geoffrey Cheshire, Robin Scott |
9 February 1969 | |
| 4 | 7 | Relatively Speaking | Alan Ayckbourn | Herbert Wise (d) | Celia Johnson, Donald Sinden, John Stride, Judy Cornwell, |
2 March 1969 | lost |
| 4 | 8 | Julius Caesar | William Shakespeare | Alan Bridges (d) | Robert Stephens, Frank Finlay, Maurice Denham, Edward Woodward, Anthony Bate, Alan Rowe, Jon Rollason, John Alderton, John Abineri, Terence De Marney, Christopher Guard, Christopher Timothy, Trevor Martin, Brian Vaughan, Christopher Benjamin, Richard Coe, Christopher Denham, Christopher Timothy, Stuart Wilson, Andrew Johns, Duncan Preston |
13 April 1969 | |
| 4 | 9 | An Ideal Husband | Oscar Wilde | Rudolph Cartier (d) | Jeremy Brett, Keith Michell, Margaret Leighton, Dinah Sheridan, Susan Hampshire, Penelope Lee, Erik Chitty |
11 May 1969 | [12] |
| 5 | 1 | The Heiress | Augustus and Ruth Goetz (play adaptation); Henry James (novel, Washington Square) |
Terence Dudley (d) | Vincent Price, Eileen Atkins, John Stride, Lally Bowers, Shirley Dixon, David Allister |
12 October 1969 | lost |
| 5 | 2 | Charley's Aunt | Brandon Thomas (play); Richard Waring (adaptation) |
John Gorrie (d) | Danny La Rue, Ronnie Barker, Coral Browne, Dinsdale Landen, John Standing, Robert Coote, Royce Mills, Reginald Barratt, George Giles |
23 November 1969 | |
| 5 | 3 | The Marquise | Noël Coward | Alan Gibson | Celia Johnson, Philip Latham, Richard Vernon, David Griffin, Ciaran Madden, Nigel Terry, Wensley Pithey |
14 December 1969 | lost |
| 5 | 4 | The Three Sisters* | Anton Chekhov | Gerald Savory (p); Cedric Messina (d) | Eileen Atkins, Janet Suzman, Michele Dotrice, Anthony Hopkins, Sarah Badel, Ronald Hines, Joss Ackland, Donald Pickering, Michael Bryant, Jill Bennett, Erik Chitty, Christopher Timothy |
18 January 1970 | [13] |
| 5 | 5 | In Good King Charles's Golden Days | George Bernard Shaw | (Producer and director untraced) | Elisabeth Bergner, Michael Craig, Maurice Denham, John Gielgud, Barbara Jefford[14] |
15 February 1970 | lost |
| 5 | 6 | Separate Tables | Terence Rattigan (play); Hugh Whitemore (adaptation) |
Alan Cooke (d) | Eric Porter, Annette Crosbie, Geraldine McEwan, Robert Harris, Cathleen Nesbitt, Hazel Hughes |
15 March 1970 | [15] |
| 5 | 7 | Howards End | E. M. Forster (novel) | Donald McWhinnie (d) | Leo Genn, Rachel Kempson, Glenda Jackson, Andrew Ray, Geraldine Sherman, Christopher Gable, Tessa Shaw, Daphne Heard, Mary Healey, John Tordoff, Caroline Hunt |
19 April 1970 | seq exist[16] |
| 5 | 8 | The Rivals | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | Basil Coleman (d) | Andrew Cruickshank, Beryl Reid, Jeremy Brett, Jennie Linden, John Alderton, T. P. McKenna, Susan Penhaligon, Lynn Farleigh |
17 May 1970 | |
| 6 | 1 | Macbeth | William Shakespeare | John Gorrie (d) | Eric Porter, Janet Suzman, John Thaw, John Woodvine, John Alderton, Michael Goodliffe, Tony Caunter, Sylvia Coleridge, Daphne Heard, Hilary Mason, Geoffrey Palmer, Wolfe Morris, Alan Rowe, Donald Douglas, John Bailey, David Spenser, Leon Eagles, Christopher Guard Paul Greenhalgh |
20 September 1970 | |
| 6 | 2 | Ross | Terence Rattigan (play); William Emms (adaptation) |
Cedric Messina (d) (no producer credit) | Ian McKellen, Charles Gray, Barrie Ingham, John Bennett, Martin Jarvis, Edward Fox, Brian Rawlinson, Michael Robbins, David Spenser, Kim Fortune, Hugh Walters, Simon Lack, Robert Luckham, Victor Pemberton, David Griffin, Richard Hampton |
18 October 1970 | lost |
| 6 | 3 | Uncle Vanya | Anton Chekhov | Christopher Morahan (d) | Freddie Jones, Anthony Hopkins, Ann Bell, Roland Culver, Jenifer Armitage, John Baskcomb, Richard Beale, Stacey Tendeter |
8 November 1970 | [13] |
| 6 | 4 | Five Finger Exercise | Peter Shaffer | John Gorrie (d) | Margaret Lockwood, Paul Rogers, Gary Bond, Sally Thomsett, Timothy Dalton |
24 December 1970 | lost |
| 6 | 5 | Act of Betrayal | Hugh Whitemore | William Slater | Zena Walker, Mary Wimbush, Michael Gwynn, Stanley Meadows, Deborah Lavin, Alan MacNaughtan, Gertan Klauber, Nicholas Smith, Jay Neill |
3 January 1971 | |
| 6 | 6 | Candida | George Bernard Shaw | Alan Cooke (d) | George Baker, Jeremy Bulloch, Timothy Dalton, Geraldine McEwan, Clive Revill |
21 February 1971 | lost |
| 6 | 7 | The Wild Duck | Henrik Ibsen (play); Max Faber (adaptation) |
Alan Bridges (d) | Denholm Elliott, Derek Godfrey, Mark Dignam, Rosemary Leach, John Robinson, Jenny Agutter, Stephanie Bidmead, Christopher Benjamin, Brian Vaughan |
21 March 1971 | [17] |
| 6 | 8 | Don Juan in Hell | George Bernard Shaw | (no producer or director credit traced) | Michael Hordern, Christopher Plummer, Michael Redgrave, Vivien Merchant |
25 April 1971 | lost |
| 6 | 9 | Platonov | Anton Chekhov (play) John Elliott (adaptation) |
Christopher Morahan (d) | Rex Harrison, Patsy Byrne, Siân Phillips, Clive Revill, Donald Eccles, Geoffrey Bayldon, Willoughby Goddard, Stacey Tendeter, John Gill, Kevin Stoney, Neil McCarthy |
23 May 1971 | [13] |
| 7 | 1 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | William Shakespeare | James Cellan Jones (d) | Eileen Atkins, Robert Stephens, Lynn Redgrave, Amanda Barrie, Jeremy Clyde, Edward Fox, Michael Gambon, Eleanor Bron, Ronnie Barker, Paul Henry, John Laurie, Clifford Rose, John Glyn-Jones, Pam Ferris, Ken Parry |
26 September 1971 | |
| 7 | 2 | Rasputin | Ronald Eyre | Alan Cooke (d) | Robert Stephens, Peter Barkworth, Isabel Dean, Jonathan Moore, Lally Bowers, T. P. McKenna, Andrew Robertson, Reg Lye, Leonard Trolley, Derrick Gilbert, John Savident, James Bree, Harry Waters |
24 October 1971 | |
| 7 | 3 | Tartuffe | Molière (play) Richard Wilbur (translator/adaption) |
Basil Coleman (d) | Michael Hordern, Michael Craig, John Standing, David Nettheim, Mary Morris, Patricia Routledge |
28 November 1971 | lost |
| 7 | 4 | The Cherry Orchard | Anton Chekhov | Gerald Savory (p); Cedric Messian (d) |
Celia Johnson, Edward Woodward, Jenny Agutter, Ray Brooks, Gemma Jones, Cyril Shaps, David Spenser, Mary Wimbush |
19 December 1971 | bw tr only |
| 7 | 5 | Summer and Smoke | Tennessee Williams | Alvin Rakoff (d) | Lee Remick, David Hedison, Barry Morse, Betsy Blair, Wendy Miller, Bruce Clark |
23 January 1972 | lost |
| 7 | 6 | Stephen D | Hugh Leonard (play); James Joyce (source texts)[18] |
Donald McWhinnie (d) | Donal McCann, James Aspinall, Pamela Duncan, Martin Dempsey, Pauline Delaney, David Kelly, Aidan Murphy, Brendan Price, Brenda Fricker |
20 February 1972 | |
| 7 | 7 | The Merchant of Venice | William Shakespeare | Gerald Savory (p); Cedric Messina (d) |
Maggie Smith, Frank Finlay, Charles Gray, Christopher Gable, Robert Harris, Malcolm Stoddard, Nerys Hughes, David Spenser, John Moffatt, Alan Tucker, Ken Parry |
16 April 1972 | [19] |
| 7 | 8 | Lady Windermere's Fan | Oscar Wilde | Rudolph Cartier (d) | Coral Browne, Judy Geeson, Liza Goddard, Derek Godfrey, Charles Gray, James Villiers, Judy Geeson, Siân Phillips |
14 May 1972 | lost |
| 7 | 9 | Trelawny of the 'Wells' | Arthur Wing Pinero | Herbert Wise (d) | John Alderton, Graham Crowden, Lally Bowers, Roland Culver, Ian Ogilvy, Anthony Ainley, Lila Kaye, John Dearth, John Cater, Godfrey James, Henry Woolf |
13 August 1972[20] | |
| 8 | 1 | The Millionairess | George Bernard Shaw | William Slater (d) | Maggie Smith, James Villiers, Peter Barkworth, Charles Gray, Tom Baker, Priscilla Morgan, Avril Angers, John Garrie, Donald Pickering |
15 September 1972[19][21][22] | |
| 8 | 2 | Hedda Gabler | Henrik Ibsen | Waris Hussein (d) | Janet Suzman, Ian McKellen, Jane Asher, Brendan Barry, Dorothy Reynolds, Tom Bell |
20 October 1972 | [23] |
| 8 | 3 | King Oedipus | Sophocles | Alan Bridges (d) | Ian Holm, Sheila Allen, Alan Webb, Anthony Bate, Sydney Tafler, George Coulouris, Edward Kelsey, Alan Rowe, Ahmed Khalil, Philip Ryan, Sidney Kean |
24 November 1972 | |
| 8 | 4 | The Magistrate | Arthur Wing Pinero | Bill Hays (d) | Michael Hordern, Geraldine McEwan, Peter Firth, Leonard Rossiter, Anna Calder-Marshall, Barrie Ingham, Jan Francis, Dudley Jones |
20 December 1972 | lost |
| 8 | 5 | The Adventures of Don Quixote[24] | Miguel de Cervantes (novel); Hugh Whitemore (adaptation) |
Gerald Savory (p), Alvin Rakoff (d) | Rex Harrison, Frank Finlay, Rosemary Leach, Bernard Hepton, Ronald Lacey, Roger Delgado, Robert Eddison, Paul Whitsun-Jones, John Hollis, Walter Sparrow |
7 January 1973 | |
| 8 | 6 | Candide | Voltaire (novel);< />James MacTaggart (adaptation) | James MacTaggart (d) | Frank Finlay, Ian Ogilvy, Emrys James, Clifton Jones, Angela Richards, Kathleen Helme, Leonard Maguire, Jerome Willis, John Woodnutt, Johnnie Wade |
16 February 1973 | |
| 8 | 7 | A Room with a View | E. M. Forster (novel); Pauline Macaulay (adaptation) |
Donald McWhinnie (d) | Judy Geeson, Charles Gray, Tom Chadbon, John Sharp, Robert Coote, Lally Bowers, Michael Guest |
15 April 1973 | seq exist |
| 8 | 8 | The Caucasian Chalk Circle | Bertolt Brecht | Bill Hays (d) | Leo McKern, Sara Kestelman, Fanny Carby, Donald Gee, Peter Halliday, Terence Hardiman, Bernard Hepton, Peter Jeffrey, Patrick Magee, Declan Mulholland, James Mellor, Edmund Pegge, Robert Powell, John Thaw, Linda Thorson |
16 May 1973 | lost |
| 9 | 1 | The Love-Girl and the Innocent | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (novel) | Alan Clarke (d) | David Leland, Gabrielle Lloyd, Richard Durden, Patrick Stewart, Allan Surtees, Barry Jackson, John Kane, Alan Gerrard, Forbes Collins, Reg Pritchard, Eric Mason, Edwin Finn, John Herrington, George Cormack, Trevor Lawrence, Carl Forgione, Brian Grellis |
16 September 1973 | |
| 9 | 2 | The Common | Peter Nichols | Christopher Morahan (d) | Vivien Merchant, Peter Jeffrey, Dennis Waterman, Gwen Taylor, Shelagh Fraser, Trevor Baxter, Tony Sibbald |
21 October 1973 | |
| 9 | 3 | The Recruiting Officer | George Farquhar | David Giles (d) | Ian McKellen, Prunella Ransome, Jane Asher, Brian Blessed, Bryan Marshall, John Moffatt, John Welsh, John Flint, Charles Gray, Eileen Helsby, Mitzi McKenzie, Graham Weston |
18 November 1973 | seq exist |
| 9 | 4 | Pygmalion | George Bernard Shaw | Christopher Morahan (p), Cedric Messina (d) | James Villiers, Lynn Redgrave, Ronald Fraser, Emrys James, Lally Bowers, Angela Baddeley, Jon Rollason, Sheila Grant, John Cannon |
16 December 1973 | [22] |
| 9 | 5 | The Changeling* | Thomas Middleton & William Rowley |
Anthony Page (d) | Stanley Baker, Helen Mirren, Brian Cox, Alan Webb, T.P. McKenna, Frances Tomelty, Tony Selby, Susan Penhaligon, Christopher Saul |
20 January 1974 | [25] |
| 9 | 6 | The Importance of Being Earnest | Oscar Wilde | James MacTaggart (d) | Michael Jayston, Julian Holloway, Gemma Jones, Celia Bannerman, Coral Browne, Lally Bowers, Richard Pearson, Arthur Hewlett |
17 February 1974 | [26] |
| 9 | 7 | The Deep Blue Sea | Terence Rattigan | Rudolph Cartier (d) | Virginia McKenna, Peter Egan, Stephen Murray, Vladek Sheybal, Joseph Blatchley, John Moffatt, Jon Croft |
17 March 1974 | lost |
| 9 | 8 | Mrs. Warren's Profession | Bernard Shaw | Cedric Messina (p) Herbert Wise (d) |
Coral Browne, Penelope Wilton, Robert Powell, James Grout, Richard Pearson |
21 April 1974[27] | [22] |
| 9 | 9 | The Skin Game | John Galsworthy | William Slater (d) | Paul Rogers, Barbara Jefford, Bernard Lee, Judy Geeson, John Collin, Kate Nicholls, Simon MacCorkindale, David Garfield, Edward Evans |
19 May 1974 | |
| 10 | 1 | The Linden Tree | J. B. Priestley | Moira Armstrong (d) | Andrew Cruikshank, Margaret Tyzack, Gary Bond, Joanna Van Gyseghem, Marilyn Taylerson, Simon Lack, Michael Craze |
8 September 1974 | |
| 10 | 2 | Electra | Sophocles | Michael Lindsay-Hogg (d) | Eileen Atkins, Rosalie Crutchley, Julian Glover, Derek Godfrey, Georgina Hale, Susan Richards, Martin Shaw |
24 October 1974 | |
| 10 | 3 | The Wood Demon | Anton Chekhov | Donald McWhinnie (d) | Ian Holm, Francesca Annis Ronald Hines, Ronald Fraser, Donal McCann, Angela Pleasence, Cyril Luckham, Geoffrey Bayldon, Vickery Turner, Daphne Heard, Jay Neill |
17 November 1974 | [13] |
| 10 | 4 | Robinson Crusoe*[28] | Daniel Defoe (novel); James MacTaggart (adaptation) |
James MacTaggart (d) | Stanley Baker, Ram John Holder, Jerome Willis |
27 November 1974 | |
| 10 | 5 | The Apple Cart | George Bernard Shaw | Cedric Messina (d) | Nigel Davenport, Helen Mirren, Peter Barkworth, Bill Fraser, Trevor Baxter, Beryl Reid, Reg Pritchard, Simon Lack |
19 January 1975 | [22][25] |
| 10 | 6 | The School for Scandal | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | Stuart Burge (d) | Jeremy Brett, Pauline Collins, Edward Fox, Bernard Lee, Arthur Lowe, Andrew Robertson, Colin Jeavons, Russell Hunter, John Rhys-Davies, Richard Kane, David Kincaid, Willie Shearer |
16 February 1975 | |
| 10 | 7 | King Lear | William Shakespeare | Jonathan Miller (d) | Michael Hordern, Sarah Badel, Angela Down, Donald Gee, Michael Jayston, Frank Middlemass, Anthony Nicholls, Ronald Pickup, Penelope Wilton, Benjamin Whitrow, Glen Murphy, David Neal, Alec Sabin, David Kincaid, Terry Wright |
23 March 1975 | |
| 10 | 8 | Strife | John Galsworthy | James Cellan Jones (d) | Colin Blakely, Clifford Evans, Angela Down, Nerys Hughes, Trevor Cooper, John Bennett, Mostyn Evans, Hayden Jones, John Ogwen, Aubrey Richards, Clifford Rose, Hugh Walters, George Waring |
18 May 1975 | |
| 11 | 1 | Chips with Everything | Arnold Wesker | Waris Husein (d) | David Daker, Lloyd McGuire, Terence Budd, Tim Woodward, Karl Johnson, Donald Hewlett, David Troughton, Terry Bale, Leslie Schofield |
28 September 1975 | |
| 11 | 2 | The Little Minister | J. M. Barrie | Alan Shallcross (p), Cedric Messina (d) |
Ian Ogilvy, Helen Mirren, Peter Barkworth, Bill Simpson, Anne Kristen, Nicholas Jones, David Bailie, John Moffatt, Simon Lack, Robert James |
2 November 1975 | [25] |
| 11 | 3 | Love's Labour's Lost | William Shakespeare | Basil Coleman (d) | Martin Shaw, David Gwillim, Martin C. Thurley, Jeremy Brett, James Berwick, Terence Budd, Maurice Denham, Andrew Harding, Victoria Plucknett, Lorna Heilbron, Clifford Rose, Jan Francis, Tony Haygarth, Hugh Ross, David Bailie |
14 December 1975 | |
| 11 | 4 | When We Are Married | J. B. Priestley | David Giles (d) | Stuart Wilson, John Stratton, Beryl Reid, Eric Porter, Patricia Routledge, Richard Pearson, Thora Hird, Mel Martin, Kenneth Waller, Ronnie Barker, Sheila Reid |
29 December 1975 | |
| 11 | 5 | Trilby | George du Maurier (novel); Hugh Whitemore (adaptation) |
Piers Haggard (d) | Alan Badel, Sinéad Cusack, Stuart Fox, Michael Anthony, Rosalie Crutchley, Bruce Purchase, Chris Gannon |
25 January 1976 | |
| 11 | 6 | Loyalties | John Galsworthy | Rudolph Cartier (d) | Edward Fox, Charles Gray, Polly Adams, John Carson, Peter Dyneley, Dinah Sheridan, Erik Chitty, Roger Hammond, Pat Gorman, Andrew Lane, Steve Plytas, Geoffrey Palmer |
29 February 1976 | |
| 11 | 7 | Chester Mystery Cycle | Maurice Hussey (adaptation) | Piers Haggard (d) | Tom Courtenay, Michael Hordern, Alun Armstrong, Hilda Braid, Keith Chegwin, Kenneth Colley, Paul Copley, Christopher Guard, Brian Glover, Tony Haygarth, David Jackson, Kevin McNally, John Normington, Terry Scully, Nina Thomas, Raymond Westwell |
18 April 1976 | |
| 11 | 8 | French Without Tears | Terence Rattigan[29] | John Gorrie (d) | Nigel Havers, David Robb, Anthony Andrews, Barbara Kellerman Vernon Dobtcheff, Michael Gambon, Nicola Pagett |
16 May 1976 | [15] |
| 12 | 1 | The Picture of Dorian Gray* | Oscar Wilde John Osborne (play adaptation) |
John Gorrie (d) | John Gielgud, Peter Firth, Mark Dignam, Jeremy Brett, Nan Munro, Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, Michael Barrington, Judi Bowker, Nicholas Ball, Lawrence Davidson, Reginald Barratt, Paul Greenhalgh |
19 September 1976 | [12] |
| 12 | 2 | London Assurance | Dion Boucicault (play) Gerald Savory (adaptation) |
Ronald Wilson (d) | Anthony Andrews, Judy Cornwell, Jan Francis, Charles Gray, Dinsdale Landen, Clifford Rose, Nigel Stock, James Bree, George Raistrick, Nat Pearn |
10 October 1976 | |
| 12 | 3 | Look Back in Anger | John Osborne | John Glenister (d) | James Hazeldine, Ciaran Madden, Neil Daglish, Chrissy Iddon, Thorley Walters |
21 November 1976 | |
| 12 | 4 | The Winslow Boy | Terence Rattigan | David Giles (d) | Jonathan Scott-Taylor, Simon Chandler, Ann Beach, Eric Porter, Diana Fairfax Michele Dotrice, Kenneth Waller |
16 January 1977 | [15] |
| 12 | 5 | The Country Wife | William Wycherley | Donald McWhinnie (d) | Helen Mirren, Bernard Cribbins, Anthony Andrews, Amanda Barrie, Adrienne Corri, Ciaran Madden, John Nettleton, Michael Cochrane, Phil Daniels |
13 February 1977 | [25] |
| 12 | 6 | The Ambassadors | Henry James (novel) Denis Constanduros (adaptation) |
James Cellan Jones | Paul Scofield, Lee Remick, Delphine Seyrig, David Huffman, Gayle Hunnicutt, Don Fellows, William Hootkins |
13 March 1977 | |
| 12 | 7 | Heartbreak House | George Bernard Shaw | Alan Shallcross (p); Cedric Messina (d) |
John Gielgud, Siân Phillips, Barbara Murray, Daniel Massey, Lesley-Anne Down, David Waller, Donald Pickering, Barry Jackson |
19 May 1977 | [22] |
| 13 | 1 | You Never Can Tell | George Bernard Shaw | David Jones (p); James Cellan Jones (d) | Robert Powell, Kika Markham, Ernest Clark, Warren Clarke, Cyril Cusack, Patrick Magee, Judy Parfitt, Kate Nicholls |
30 October 1977 | [22] |
| 13 | 2 | Waste | Harley Granville-Barker | David Jones (p); Don Taylor (d) |
Paul Daneman, Hannah Gordon, Joyce Carey, Heather Chasen, Annette Crosbie, Robert Lang, André Morell, Stephen Murray, Donald Pickering, Alan Rowe, Michael Cashman |
4 December 1977 | |
| 13 | 3 | Flint | David Mercer | David Jones (p); Peter Wood (d) | John Le Mesurier, Julie Covington, Peter Bowles, Dandy Nichols, Beryl Reid, Philip Stone, John Bailey |
15 January 1978 | |
| 13 | 4 | The Seagull | Anton Chekhov | David Jones (p); Michael Lindsay Hogg (d) | Anthony Bate, Zoe Caldwell, Michael Gambon, Georgina Hale, Stephen Rea, Julia Schofield, Alan Webb, John Kane, Allan Surtees |
5 February 1978 | [13] |
| 13 | 5 | The Sea | Edward Bond | David Jones (p); Jane Howell | Judy Campbell, Mark Dignam, Victor Spinetti |
5 March 1978 | |
| 13 | 6 | The Beaux' Stratagem | George Farquhar | James Cellan Jones (p); David Jones (d) | Brenda Bruce, Tom Conti, Estelle Kohler, Ian Ogilvy, David Waller, Julie Peasgood, Jay Neill, Zoë Wanamaker, Malcolm Terris, Tony Haygarth, Freddie Jones, Souad Faress, Norman Rodway, Ray Callaghan |
2 April 1978 | |
| 13 | 7 | Danton's Death | Georg Büchner (play) Alan Clarke & Stuart Griffiths (adaptation) |
David Jones (p);, Alan Clarke (d) | Norman Rodway, Ian Richardson, Peter Gordon, Katherine Fahey, Felicity Gibson, Don Henderson, Michael Bilton, Nigel Lambert, Michael Pennington, John Woodnutt, Zoë Wanamaker |
23 April 1978 | |
| 14 | 1 | Kean | Alexandre Dumas, père (play); Jean-Paul Sartre (play) |
David Jones (p); James Cellan Jones (d) | Anthony Hopkins, Neville Phillips Sara Kestelman, Adrienne Corri, Barrie Ingham, Robert Stephens, Frank Middlemass, Cherie Lunghi, Hugh Walters, George Tovey, Harry Fielder |
26 November 1978 | |
| 14 | 2 | Marya | Isaak Babel (play); Christopher Hampton (adaptation) |
David Jones (p); Jack Gold (d) | Trevor Peacock, Paddy Joyce, Clive Revill, Niall Padden, Michael Byrne, Lisa Harrow, Paul Rogers, Susan Tracy, Paul Freeman |
14 January 1979 | |
| 14 | 3 | The Voysey Inheritance | Harley Granville-Barker | David Jones (p); Robert Knights (d) | Jeremy Irons, Brewster Mason, Jeremy Child, Julie Covington, Dulcie Gray, Barbara Leigh-Hunt |
4 February 1979 | |
| 14 | 4 | Hello and Goodbye | Athol Fugard | Louis Marks (p), Claude Whatham (d) | Yvonne Bryceland, Bill Flynn |
4 March 1979 | |
| 14 | 5 | The Wings of the Dove | Henry James (novel); Denis Constanduros (adaptation) |
Alan Shallcross (p); John Gorrie (d) | Elizabeth Spriggs, Betsy Blair, John Castle, Suzanne Bertish, Lisa Eichhorn, Rupert Frazer, Alan Rowe, Gino Melvazzi |
8 April 1979 | |
| 14 | 6 | Design for Living | Noël Coward | Louis Marks (p); Philip Saville (d) | Rula Lenska, Clive Arrindell, John Steiner, John Bluthal, Dandy Nichols |
6 May 1979 | [30] |
| 15 | 1 | I Have Been Here Before | J. B. Priestley | Louis Marks (p); James Ormerod (d) | Herbert Lom, Anthony Valentine, Lorna Heilbron, Leslie Sands, James Griffiths |
24 May 1982 | |
| 15 | 2 | On Approval | Frederick Lonsdale | David Giles (d) | Penelope Keith, Jeremy Brett, Lindsay Duncan, Benjamin Whitrow |
21 June 1982[31] | |
| 15 | 3 | Little Eyolf | Henrik Ibsen | Louis Marks (p); Michael Darlow (d) | Anthony Hopkins, Diana Rigg, Peggy Ashcroft, Emma Piper, Charles Dance, Timothy Stark |
19 July 1982 | [17][32] |
| 15 | 4 | The Critic | Richard Brinsley Sheridan (play); Don Taylor (additional dialogue) |
Louis Marks (p); Don Taylor (d) | John Gielgud, Hywel Bennett, Nigel Hawthorne, Rosemary Leach, Norman Rodway, Alan Badel, Anna Massey, Rodney Bewes, Christopher Biggins |
23 August 1982 | |
| 15 | 5 | The White Guard | Mikhail Bulgakov (novel); Michael Glenny (adaptation) |
Louis Marks (p); Don Taylor (d) | Michael Pennington, Laura Davenport, Nigel Havers, Charles Keating, John Shrapnel, Charles Kay, Gordon Gostelow, Michael Graham Cox, Michael N. Harbour, Martin Clunes, Glen Murphy, John Ringham, Oliver Smith, Walter Sparrow, John Abineri, Andrew Burt, Geoffrey Beevers |
20 September 1982 | |
| 16 | 1 | Dangerous Corner | J. B. Priestley | James Ormerod (d) | Anthony Valentine, Sarah Badel, David Robb, Judi Bowker, Daniel Day-Lewis, Elvi Hale, Susan Fleetwood |
22 May 1983 | |
| 16 | 2 | The Gay Lord Quex | Arthur Wing Pinero | Louis Marks (p); Claude Whatham (d) | Hannah Gordon, Evelyn Laye, Rosalind Ayres, Julian Holloway, Lucy Gutteridge, Anton Rodgers, Geraldine Alexander |
13 June 1983 | |
| 16 | 3 | Infidelities | Pierre de Marivaux | Louis Marks; Michael Darlow (d) | Charlotte Rampling, Robin Askwith, Victor Spinetti, James Aubrey, Leonie Mellinger |
12 September 1983 |
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References
- "Missing or incomplete episodes for programme Play of the Month", lostshows.com
- "Episode list for "Play of the Month"". Retrieved 21 April 2009.
- Angelini, Sergio (2003–14). "Passage to India, A (1965)". BFI Screenonline. Retrieved 18 July 2017.
- Oliver Wake "Lee Oswald - Assassin (1966)", BFI Screenonline, December 2003
- Make Me An Offer, Guide to Musical Theatre website
- Make Me an Offer, BFI Film Forever
- Credits from John Wyver "More lost and found", Illuminations, 16 September 2010
- Credits from Radio Times, Issue No.2245, 17 November 1966, p.39
- Credits taken from Radio Times, Issue No.2249, 15 December 1966, p.25
- Other sources list this as the broadcast date, but as the Radio Times listing for 15 October 1967 is garbled (as of January 2015), the broadcast of 6 July 1969 is a repeat, but not identified as such. (Radio Times, Issue 2382. 3 July 1969, p.11)
- This is almost certainly a repeat of a Theatre 625 production which had been transmitted on 27 March 1966 on BBC 2. The cast and crew appear to be identical, but the BFI Film & TV database treats them as being entirely separate productions.
- The Oscar Wilde Collection, BBC DVD box-set
- The Anton Chekhov Collection, BBC-Warner DVD box-set (Region 1 only)
- In the absence of a detailed entry in the BFI database, the cast details for this episode are taken from the IMDb page.
- The Terence Rattigan Collection, BBC DVD box-set
- Play of the Month: Howard's End, lostshows.com
- Henrik Ibsen Collection, BBC-Warner DVD boxset (Region 1/N. America only)
- Hugh Leonard's play draws on Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Stephen Hero. See Michael Coveney Obituary: Hugh Leonard, The Guardian, 13 February 2009
- Maggie Smith at the BBC, BBC Warner DVD box-set (Region 1 only)
- IMDb lists this production as being a fully blown Play of the Month. It is a repeat of a Stage 2 presentation, produced by Cedric Messina, which had first been transmitted by BBC2 on 7 July 1971. See the entry on the BFI Film & TV database.
- On this occasion, Play of the Month was broadcast on a Friday. The BFI has 15 September while IMDb indicates it went out on Monday 25 September. Conclusive proof that the BFI source is correct comes from a preview item in "Arts' choice", The Spectator, 8 September 1972, p.23 To confuse matters further, IMDb list a production of Shaw's Mrs Warren's Profession being transmitted on 3 October 1972 as a Play of the Month. This is an error. The production of the play, which is about prostitution, was part of the Sage 2 series, and was given a latter evening screening on BBC 2. See the entry in the BFI database.
- The Bernard Shaw Collection, BBC 6 DVD box set
- The BBC's 1962 version with Ingrid Bergman and Michael Redgrave is contained within the Henrik Ibsen Collection box-set.
- This episode was a co-production between the BBC and Universal Television.
- Helen Mirren at the BBC, BBC DVD box-set
- The BBC's 1986 version is contained within The Oscar Wilde Collection
- Repeat of a Stage Two production transmitted on 3 October 1972 (BBC2). See "Mrs Warren's Professtion". BBC Genome (Radio Times 1923 2009). Retrieved 9 December 2015.
- This programme was a co-production with Universal Television.
- MDb lists Anatole de Grunwald as writer in addition to Rattigan.
- The Noël Coward Collection, BBC DVD box-set
- This is solely a repeat under the Play of the Month banner. It was first broadcast on 27 December 1980.
- Diana Rigg at the BBC, BBC-Warner DVD box-set (Region 1 only)
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