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

Writers

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