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 11 episodes
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Pip is a socialist who has seen the squalor of the East End, typified by greasy cafés offering 'chips with everything'. Pip is also the only privately-educated recruit in a draft of other National Service recruits. He's tried to buck the system by not applying for an officer's commission.
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Directed by Waris HusseinWritten by Arnold WeskerGuest stars Tim Woodward, David Daker, Lloyd McGuire, Terence Budd, Karl Johnson, David Troughton, Sam Dale, Ron Bain
In rural 1840s Scotland, Gavin Dishart arrives to become the new 'little minister' of Thrums's Auld Licht church. He meets a mysterious young gypsy girl in the dens and to his horror Babbie draws him into her escape from the soldiers after she incites a Luddite riot. But unknown to Gavin, Babbie is more than she seems, and they must overcome her secret, the villagers' fears of her, and--worst of all--Gavin's devotion to his mother's sensibilities, before they can openly declare their love.
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Directed by Cedric MessinaWritten by J.M. BarrieGuest stars Helen Mirren, Ian Ogilvy, Peter Barkworth, Bill Simpson, Nicholas Jones, David Bailie, John Moffatt
A scholarly king and his three companions swear off the society of women for three years, only to have a diplomatic visit from a French princess and her three ladies-in-waiting thwart their intentions.
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Directed by Basil ColemanGuest stars Martin Shaw, Jeremy Brett, David Gwillim, Thomas Ellice, Lorna Heilbron, Sinéad Cusack, Jan Francis, Debbie Bowen
At the turn of the 20th century, a set of long-married couples discover that due to a bureaucratic quirk they have never actually been married.
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Directed by David GilesWritten by J. B. PriestleyGuest stars Thora Hird, Patricia Routledge, Ronnie Barker, Eric Porter, Beryl Reid, John Stratton, Richard Pearson, Stuart Wilson
Directed by Rudolph CartierWritten by John GalsworthyGuest stars Dinah Sheridan, John Carson, Charles Kay, Edward Fox, Peter Dyneley, Catherine Schell, Robert Flemyng, David Markham
A quartet of mystery plays originally based in Chester.
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Directed by Piers HaggardWritten by Maurice HusseyGuest stars Brian Glover, Keith Chegwin, Kevin McNally, Hilda Braid, James Hazeldine, David Jackson, Paul Copley, Tom Courtenay
The romantic and comic adventures of a quintet of young Englishmen in France, on a course to learn the language.
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Directed by John GorrieWritten by Anatole de GrunwaldGuest stars Anthony Andrews, David Robb, Michael Gambon, Nicola Pagett, Barbara Kellerman, Nigel Havers, Tim Woodward, Adam Birdsall
