BBC Play of the Month

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  • Genre(s):Drama
  • Release year: 1965
Play of the Month is a BBC television anthology series, which ran from 1965 to 1983 featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays which were usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent...read more

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Play of the Month is a BBC television anthology series, which ran from 1965 to 1983 featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays 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.

Original Release

10/19/1965 on BBC

Links

Website

Cast

(see additional cast & crew)
# Title Air Date
1 Dangerous Corner Sunday, 22 May 1983
2 The Gay Lord Quex Monday, 13 June 1983
3 Infidelities Monday, 12 September 1983

Directors

Cedric Messina, John Gorrie, Rudolph Cartier, Basil Coleman, James Cellan Jones, Alan Cooke, Donald McWhinnie, Waris Hussein, James MacTaggart, William Slater, Bill Hays, Alan Bridges, David Giles, Alan Clarke, Christopher Morahan, Herbert Wise, Don Taylor, Claude Whatham, Piers Haggard, Michael Darlow, James Ormerod, Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Anthony Page, Alvin Rakoff, Raymond Menmuir, Jane Howell, Naomi Capon, John Glenister, Peter Wood, Terence Dudley, Philip Dudley, Philip Saville, David Hugh Jones, Jonathan Miller, Michael Elliott, Stuart Burge, Moira Armstrong, Ronald Wilson, Gareth Davies, Robert Knights, Jack Gold, Alan Gibson

Writers

George Bernard Shaw, William Shakespeare, Anton Chekhov, Terence Rattigan, Oscar Wilde, Henrik Ibsen, J.B. Priestley, E.M. Forster, Hugh Whitemore, Michael Meyer, Elisaveta Fen, John Osborne, Richard B. Sheridan, Noël Coward, John Galsworthy, Henry James, Arthur Wing Pinero, Sophocles, James MacTaggart, George Farquhar, Ronald Hingley, E.F. Watling, Denis Constanduros, Michael Glenny, Rudolph Cartier, Harley Granville-Barker, John Elliot, Pauline Macaulay, David Mercer, Peter Nichols, Augustus Goetz, Ruth Goetz, Donald Bull, Robin Maugham, Anthony Steven, Peter Shaffer, Brian Hooker, C.P. Snow, Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra, Voltaire, Richard Wilbur, Michael Bialoguski, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, J.M. Barrie, Alexandre Dumas, Edmond Rostand, Christa Winsloe, James Thurber, Rodney Ackland, W. Somerset Maugham, Anatole de Grunwald, Ken Taylor, Hugh Walpole, Georg Büchner, Frederick Lonsdale, H.G. Wells, Molière, Bertolt Brecht, William Emms, Gerald Savory, William Rowley, Thomas Middleton, Alun Owen, Daniel Defoe, Clive Exton, Jean-Paul Sartre, Alan Ayckbourn, Friedrich Schiller, Tennessee Williams, Edward Bond, Hugh Leonard, Richard Waring, David Weir, Isaak Babel, N.C. Hunter, Derek Ingrey, Maurice Edelman, Margarete Steffin, Dion Boucicault, Moura Budberg, Elizabeth Hart, Don Taylor, Harry Green, Maurice Hussey, William Wycherley, Stuart Griffiths, Frank Hauser, Heinar Kipphardt, Alex Weissberg, David Bull, Barbara Burnham, Stephen Spender, Max Faber, J.M. Cohen, Harold Shukman, George L. Du Maurier, Georges Simenon, Alex Comfort, John Maynard, Santha Rama Rau, James Joyce, Eric Bentley, Ronald Eyre, Arnold Wesker, Marivaux, Mikhail A. Bulgakov, David Benedictus, Alan Clarke, Reed de Rouen, Athol Fugard, Emlyn Williams, Waris Hussein, Arthur Miller, Brandon Thomas, Wolf Mankowitz, Christopher Hampton

Cast

Producers

Editors

Dave King, Sam Upton, E. Michel Boyd, Ken Pearce, Howard Dell, Roy Watts

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