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Season 3

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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11 Episodes

  • Girls in Uniform
    E1
    Girls in Uniform
  • The Moon and Sixpence
    E2
    The Moon and SixpenceLoosely inspired from Gauguin's life, Charles Strickland is a middle-aged stockbroker who abandons his middle-classed life, his family, his duties to start painting, what he has always wanted to do. He is from now on a awful human being, wholly devoted to his ideal: beauty.
  • Romeo and Juliet
    E3
    Romeo and JulietRomeo Montague and Juliet Capulet fall in love against the wishes of their feuding families. Driven by their passion, the young lovers defy their destiny and elope, only to suffer the ultimate tragedy.
  • The Parachute
    E4
    The ParachuteAs the Nazis grow ever more powerful, Werner Roger grows up in an aristocratic household, hating his domineering father and making enemies in high places.
  • Cyrano de Bergerac
    E5
    Cyrano de BergeracLong-nosed Cyrano de Bergerac helps an army officer woo Roxanne, the woman he loves.
  • Ghosts
    E6
    GhostsA young student idealizes the lives of the inhabitants of a stylish Stockholm apartment building, only to find that it a nest of betrayal and sickness.
  • The Corn Is Green
    E7
    The Corn Is GreenA schoolteacher mentors a talented young miner and seeks to get him into a university.
  • The Tempest
    E8
    The TempestThe magician Prospero, once Duke of Milan, now rules a small, enchanted island – but a storm brings visitors from the past.
  • The Old Ladies
    E9
    The Old LadiesA trio of middle-aged women set up housekeeping together.
  • Man and Superman
    E10
    Man and SupermanJohn Tanner is determined not to lose his independence - which comes under threat when he falls in love with an ardent feminist.
  • Hay Fever
    E11
    Hay FeverWeekend guests of the Bliss family finds their hosts distinctly eccentric.

 

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