BBC Play of the Month

1. Luther

Air Date: 1965-10-19

2. A Passage to India

Air Date: 1965-11-16

Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator.

3. The Joel Brand Story

Air Date: 1965-12-14

4. Gordon of Khartoum

Air Date: 1966-01-18

5. Where Angels Fear to Tread

Air Date: 1966-02-15

6. Lee Oswald - Assassin

Air Date: 1966-03-15

'The life of Lee Harvey Oswald, the man who shot President John F. Kennedy, as reported to the Warren Commission enquiry into the circumstances of the assassination.' (BFI Screenonline)

7. Make Me an Offer

Air Date: 1966-04-12

8. Death of a Salesman

Air Date: 1966-05-24

9. The Devil's Eggshell

Air Date: 1966-06-28

1. Defection! The Case of Colonel Petrov

Air Date: 1966-09-27

2. Days to Come

Air Date: 1966-10-25

3. Corridors of Power

Air Date: 1966-11-22

4. The Making of Jericho

Air Date: 1966-12-20

5. The Cabinet Makers

Air Date: 1967-03-14

1. Girls in Uniform

Air Date: 1967-10-15

2. The Moon and Sixpence

Air Date: 1967-11-12

3. Romeo and Juliet

Air Date: 1967-12-03

Alan Cooke's TV adaptation of the classic shakespeare play, starring Kika Markham and Hywel Bennet as the star-crossed lovers of Verona.

4. The Parachute

Air Date: 1968-01-21

5. Cyrano de Bergerac

Air Date: 1968-02-11

6. Ghosts

Air Date: 1968-03-17

7. The Corn Is Green

Air Date: 1968-04-14

8. The Tempest

Air Date: 1968-05-12

9. The Old Ladies

Air Date: 1968-06-09

10. Man and Superman

Air Date: 1968-07-07

11. Hay Fever

Air Date: 1968-08-04

1. St. Joan

Air Date: 1968-09-01

2. The Male Animal

Air Date: 1968-10-13

3. The Seagull

Air Date: 1968-11-17

4. Waters of the Moon

Air Date: 1968-12-24

5. Mary Queen of Scots

Air Date: 1969-01-12

6. Maigret at Bay

Air Date: 1969-02-09

7. Relatively Speaking

Air Date: 1969-03-02

8. Julius Caesar

Air Date: 1969-04-13

9. An Ideal Husband

Air Date: 1969-05-11

Adaptation of the classic Oscar Wilde play involving blackmail and political corruption. Starring Margaret Leighton, Jeremy Brett and Susan Hampshire.

1. The Heiress

Air Date: 1969-10-12

2. Charley's Aunt

Air Date: 1969-11-23

3. The Marquis

Air Date: 1969-12-14

4. Three Sisters

Air Date: 1970-01-18

Anton Chekhov's famous drama on the lives of sisters Irena, Masha and Olga in a provincial Russian town. Translated by Elisaveta Fen.

5. In Good King Charles's Golden Days

Air Date: 1970-02-15

6. Separate Tables

Air Date: 1970-03-15

A play by Terrence Rattigan. The stories of several people are told as they stay at a seaside hotel in Bournemouth.

7. Howards End

Air Date: 1970-04-19

8. The Rivals

Air Date: 1970-05-15

1. Macbeth

Air Date: 1970-09-20

2. Ross

Air Date: 1970-10-18

3. Uncle Vanya

Air Date: 1970-11-08

4. Five Finger Exercise

Air Date: 1970-12-24

5. Act of Betrayal

Air Date: 1971-01-03

6. Candida

Air Date: 1971-02-21

7. The Wild Duck

Air Date: 1971-03-21

8. Don Juan in Hell

Air Date: 1971-04-25

9. Platonov

Air Date: 1971-05-23

1. A Midsummer Night's Dream

Air Date: 1971-09-26

2. Rasputin

Air Date: 1971-10-24

Robert Stephens stars in a drama about the mysterious peasant monk who held enormous influence at the Russian court for over a decade, before his murder in 1916.

3. Tartuffe

Air Date: 1971-11-28

4. The Cherry Orchard

Air Date: 1971-12-19

5. Summer and Smoke

Air Date: 1972-01-23

6. Stephen D

Air Date: 1972-02-20

7. The Merchant of Venice

Air Date: 1972-04-16

8. Lady Windermere's Fan

Air Date: 1972-05-14

9. The Playboy of the Western World

Air Date: 1972-06-11

10. She Stoops to Conquer

Air Date: 1972-07-23

11. Trelawny of the "Wells"

Air Date: 1972-08-13

1. The Millionairess

Air Date: 1972-09-25

Play by Bernard Shaw. An Indian doctor meets Epifania, a willful and arrogant heiress who is stuck in a dull marriage in order to satisfy the conditions of her father's will.

2. Hedda Gabler

Air Date: 1972-10-20

3. King Oedipus

Air Date: 1972-11-24

4. The Magistrate

Air Date: 1972-12-20

5. The Adventures of Don Quixote

Air Date: 1973-01-07

6. Candide

Air Date: 1973-02-16

7. A Room with a View

Air Date: 1973-04-15

8. The Caucasian Chalk Circle

Air Date: 1973-05-16

9. The Duchess of Malfi

Air Date: 1973-07-18

10. Peer Gynt

Air Date: 1973-08-22

1. The Love Girl and the Innocent

Air Date: 1973-09-16

2. The Common

Air Date: 1973-10-27

3. The Recruiting Officer

Air Date: 1973-10-18

4. Pygmalion

Air Date: 1973-12-16

A play by George Bernard Shaw, starring James Villiers as the egotistical Professor Henry Higgins and Lynn Redgrave as the east end flower girl Eliza Doolittle

5. The Importance of Being Earnest

Air Date: 1974-02-17

6. The Changeling

Air Date: 1974-01-20

Beatrice-Joanna is betrothed to Lord Alonzo de Piraquo but is in love with Alsemero. She hires her father's manservant, De Flores, to kill Alonzo but after he has done so, she realises De Flores wants her as a reward. Stanley Baker and Helen Mirren in the lead roles.

7. The Deep Blue Sea

Air Date: 1974-03-17

8. Mrs. Warren's Profession

Air Date: 1974-04-21

Written by George Bernard Shaw in 1893, and first performed in London in 1902. The play is about a former prostitute, now a madam, who attempts to come to terms with her disapproving daughter.

9. The Skin Game

Air Date: 1974-05-19

The rivalry between a wealthy businessman and his lower-class, self-made rival gets very personal indeed.

1. The Linden Tree

Air Date: 1974-09-08

2. Electra

Air Date: 1974-10-24

3. The Wood Demon

Air Date: 1974-10-17

Adaptation of the classic play by Chekhov, starring Ian Holm. A lunch party gathers to celebrate Leo Zheltukhin's birthday.

4. Robinson Crusoe

Air Date: 1974-11-29

5. The Apple Cart

Air Date: 1975-01-19

Play by Bernard Shaw. The plot follows King Magnus as he spars with Prime Minister Proteus and his cabinet, who seek to strip the monarchy of its remaining political influence.

6. The School for Scandal

Air Date: 1975-02-16

7. King Lear

Air Date: 1975-03-23

8. The Shadow of a Gunman

Air Date: 1975-04-20

9. Strife

Air Date: 1975-05-18

1. Chips with Everything

Air Date: 1975-09-28

2. The Little Minister

Air Date: 1975-11-02

Ian Ogilvy and Helen Mirren star in this adaptation of JM Barries’ play, set in rural 1840s Scotland. A local priest falls in love with a gypsy girl who incites a Luddite riot.

3. Love's Labour's Lost

Air Date: 1975-12-14

The King of Navarre and three of his Lords swear to avoid women for three years. But the unexpected arrival of the Princess of France and her Ladies changes matters.

4. When We Are Married

Air Date: 1975-12-29

5. Trilby

Air Date: 1976-01-24

6. Loyalties

Air Date: 1976-02-28

7. The Chester Mystery Cycle

Air Date: 1976-04-18

8. French Without Tears

Air Date: 1976-05-16

Play by Terence Rattigan. The comic, sometimes painful, fallings-out of five young male English students in France.

1. The Picture of Dorian Gray

Air Date: 1976-09-19

2. London Assurance

Air Date: 1976-10-10

3. Look Back in Anger

Air Date: 1976-11-21

4. The Winslow Boy

Air Date: 1977-01-16

A play by Terence Rattigan. The term at Osborne Naval College is not yet over. Why, therefore, has cadet Ronnie Winslow returned home? And why is he hiding in the garden?

5. The Country Wife

Air Date: 1977-02-13

Play by William Wycherley. Pinchwife brings his simple young wife Margery to London for his sister's wedding.

6. The Ambassadors

Air Date: 1977-03-13

7. Heartbreak House

Air Date: 1977-05-19

1. You Never Can Tell

Air Date: 1977-10-30

2. Waste

Air Date: 1977-12-04

3. Flint

Air Date: 1978-01-15

4. The Seagull

Air Date: 1978-02-05

5. The Sea

Air Date: 1978-03-05

6. The Beaux Stratagem

Air Date: 1978-04-02

7. Danton's Death

Air Date: 1978-04-23

1. Kean

Air Date: 1978-11-26

2. Marya

Air Date: 1979-01-14

3. The Voysey Inheritance

Air Date: 1979-02-04

4. Hello and Goodbye

Air Date: 1979-03-04

5. The Wings of the Dove

Air Date: 1979-04-08

6. Design for Living

Air Date: 1979-06-05

Noel Coward's play about Gilda and her attempts to share her love with two men while marrying a third.

7. The Kitchen

Air Date: 1979-07-01

1. I Have Been Here Before

Air Date: 1982-05-24

2. On Approval

Air Date: 1982-06-21

3. Little Eyolf

Air Date: 1982-07-19

4. The Critic

Air Date: 1982-08-23

5. The White Guard

Air Date: 1982-09-20

1. Dangerous Corner

Air Date: 1983-05-22

Dangerous Corner is a TV episode of BBC Play of the Month written by J.B. Priestley and directed by James Ormerod.

2. The Gay Lord Quex

Air Date: 1983-06-13

3. The Misanthrope

Air Date: 1983-07-11

4. Infidelities

Air Date: 1983-09-12