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Season 10

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.

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9 Episodes

  • The Linden Tree
    E1
    The Linden TreeIn 1947 England, in the home of Professor Robert Linden, chair of modern history at the provincial University of Burmanley, rationing and austerity seem to have fostered opportunism, escapism and confrontation within the Linden family, gathered to celebrate Robert's 65th birthday and each of whom is struggling with their own crises.
  • Electra
    E2
    ElectraIn the city of Mycenae, a few years after the Trojan War, a bitter struggle for justice is undertaken by Electra and her brother Orestes for the murder of their father Agamemnon by Clytemnestra and their stepfather Aegisthus.
  • The Wood Demon
    E3
    The Wood DemonA luncheon party gathers to celebrate a wealthy unmarried man's birthday; his sister hopes he'll marry Sonya, the daughter of a selfish gout-ridden old professor who makes life Hell for his son George and his young wife, Helen.
  • Robinson Crusoe
    E4
    Robinson CrusoeAn English slave trader is marooned on a remote tropical island, forced to fend for himself and deal with crushing loneliness.
  • The Apple Cart
    E5
    The Apple CartKing Magnus's position as monarch is in danger – can he 'upset the apple cart' and preserve his throne?
  • The School for Scandal
    E6
    The School for ScandalScandalmonger Lady Sneerwell controls a nest of gossipy vipers, and young Lady Teazle, bored by her elderly husband Sir Peter, has been lured into the circle too.
  • King Lear
    E7
    King LearAn aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.
  • Strife
    E8
    StrifeA personal dispute between a union leader and a management leader causes chaos for workers at a troublesome tin mining company.
  • The Shadow of a Gunman
    E10
    The Shadow of a Gunman

 

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