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

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

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
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Directors

Cedric Messina, Basil Coleman, John Gorrie, Rudolph Cartier, Donald McWhinnie, James Cellan Jones, Alan Cooke, Waris Hussein, Alan Bridges, James MacTaggart, William Slater, Bill Hays, David Giles, Christopher Morahan, Alan Clarke, Don Taylor, Herbert Wise, Claude Whatham, Piers Haggard, Anthony Page, Michael Darlow, James Ormerod, Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Alvin Rakoff, Jane Howell, Raymond Menmuir, 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, Hugh Whitemore, Henrik Ibsen, E.M. Forster, J.B. Priestley, Oscar Wilde, Arthur Wing Pinero, Noël Coward, John Galsworthy, Henry James, Richard B. Sheridan, Michael Meyer, John Osborne, Elisaveta Fen, George Farquhar, James MacTaggart, Ronald Hingley, Denis Constanduros, Sophocles, Michael Glenny, Pauline Macaulay, John Elliot, David Mercer, E.F. Watling, Rudolph Cartier, Harley Granville-Barker, J.M. Barrie, Augustus Goetz, Ruth Goetz, Robin Maugham, Anthony Steven, Peter Shaffer, Peter Nichols, Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra, Voltaire, Richard Wilbur, Michael Bialoguski, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Alexandre Dumas, Edmond Rostand, Christa Winsloe, James Thurber, Brian Hooker, C.P. Snow, Anatole de Grunwald, Ken Taylor, Hugh Walpole, Rodney Ackland, W. Somerset Maugham, Frederick Lonsdale, H.G. Wells, Molière, Bertolt Brecht, William Emms, Gerald Savory, William Rowley, Thomas Middleton, Alun Owen, Daniel Defoe, Donald Bull, Clive Exton, Jean-Paul Sartre, Alan Ayckbourn, Friedrich Schiller, Tennessee Williams, Edward Bond, Hugh Leonard, Georg Büchner, N.C. Hunter, Derek Ingrey, Maurice Edelman, Heinar Kipphardt, David Weir, Dion Boucicault, Moura Budberg, Elizabeth Hart, Richard Waring, Don Taylor, Harry Green, Maurice Hussey, William Wycherley, Stuart Griffiths, Frank Hauser, Murray Martin, Alex Weissberg, David Bull, Barbara Burnham, Stephen Spender, Max Faber, J.M. Cohen, Harold Shukman, Ronald Eyre, Arnold Wesker, George L. Du Maurier, Georges Simenon, Alex Comfort, Santha Rama Rau, Isaak Babel, James Joyce, Eric Bentley, Margarete Steffin, Marivaux, Mikhail A. Bulgakov, John Maynard, 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, Howard Dell, Ken Pearce, Roy Watts

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