Play of the Month

Season 11

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.

Where to Watch Season 11

8 Episodes

  • Chips with Everything
    E1
    Chips with EverythingPip is a socialist who has seen the squalor of the East End, typified by greasy cafés offering 'chips with everything'. Pip is also the only privately-educated recruit in a draft of other National Service recruits. He's tried to buck the system by not applying for an officer's commission.
  • The Little Minister
    E2
    The Little MinisterIn rural 1840s Scotland, Gavin Dishart arrives to become the new 'little minister' of Thrums's Auld Licht church. He meets a mysterious young gypsy girl in the dens and to his horror Babbie draws him into her escape from the soldiers after she incites a Luddite riot. But unknown to Gavin, Babbie is more than she seems, and they must overcome her secret, the villagers' fears of her, and--worst of all--Gavin's devotion to his mother's sensibilities, before they can openly declare their love.
  • Love's Labour's Lost
    E3
    Love's Labour's LostA scholarly king and his three companions swear off the society of women for three years, only to have a diplomatic visit from a French princess and her three ladies-in-waiting thwart their intentions.
  • When We Are Married
    E4
    When We Are MarriedAt the turn of the 20th century, a set of long-married couples discover that due to a bureaucratic quirk they have never actually been married.
  • Trilby
    E5
    TrilbyTrilby, a young Irish girl in Paris, falls under the influence of the sinister hypnotist Svengali.
  • Loyalties
    E6
    Loyalties
  • The Chester Mystery Cycle
    E7
    The Chester Mystery CycleA quartet of mystery plays originally based in Chester.
  • French Without Tears
    E8
    French Without TearsThe romantic and comic adventures of a quintet of young Englishmen in France, on a course to learn the language.

 

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