James MacTaggart
Director
BBC Play of the Month (1965)
Season 11
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.
Released Oct. 19, 1965
Episode 103 min
None+
Genres: Drama
Keywords: tmdb.based-on-play-or-musical, tmdb.anthology
Production Companies: BBC
Network: BBC One
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S11E1 - Chips with Everything
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.
Sept. 28, 1975, midnight
S11E2 - The Little Minister
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.
Nov. 2, 1975, midnight
S11E3 - Love's Labour's Lost
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.
Dec. 14, 1975, midnight
S11E4 - When We Are Married
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.
Dec. 29, 1975, midnight
S11E5 - Trilby
Trilby, a young Irish girl in Paris, falls under the influence of the sinister hypnotist Svengali.
Jan. 24, 1976, midnight
S11E6 - Loyalties
None
Feb. 28, 1976, midnight
S11E7 - The Chester Mystery Cycle
A quartet of mystery plays originally based in Chester.
April 18, 1976, midnight
S11E8 - French Without Tears
The romantic and comic adventures of a quintet of young Englishmen in France, on a course to learn the language.
May 16, 1976, midnight
BBC One
103 min/ep
13184 min
Oct. 19, 1965
Sept. 12, 1983, midnight
Ended
NR
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