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.
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.
Season 10 episodes
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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.
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Directed by Moira ArmstrongWritten by J. B. PriestleyGuest stars Andrew Cruickshank, Margaret Tyzack, Michael Craze, Gary Bond, Joanna Van Gyseghem, Marilyn Taylerson, Tina Heath, Simon Lack
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.
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Directed by Michael Lindsay-HoggGuest stars Eileen Atkins, Martin Shaw, Georgina Hale, Rosalie Crutchley, Julian Glover, Susan Richards, Derek Godfrey
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.
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Directed by Donald McWhinnieWritten by Ronald HingleyGuest stars Angela Pleasence, Ronald Fraser, Ian Holm, Geoffrey Bayldon, Francesca Annis, Donal McCann, Cyril Luckham, Vickery Turner
King Magnus's position as monarch is in danger – can he 'upset the apple cart' and preserve his throne?
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Directed by Cedric MessinaWritten by George Bernard ShawGuest stars Helen Mirren, Nigel Davenport, Prunella Scales, Beryl Reid, Peter Barkworth, Joyce Grant, Bill Fraser
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.
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Directed by Stuart BurgeWritten by Richard B. SheridanGuest stars Arthur Lowe, Bernard Lee, Pauline Collins, Colin Jeavons, Edward Fox, Russell Hunter, Jeremy Brett, Andrew Robertson
An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.
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Directed by Jonathan MillerGuest stars Michael Hordern, Sarah Badel, Penelope Wilton, Angela Down, Frank Middlemass, Benjamin Whitrow, John Shrapnel, David Neal
A personal dispute between a union leader and a management leader causes chaos for workers at a troublesome tin mining company.
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Directed by James Cellan JonesWritten by John GalsworthyGuest stars Colin Blakely, Clifford Evans, Angela Down, Nerys Hughes, Hugh Walters, Allan McClelland, Clifford Rose, Malcolm Stoddard
