Play of the Month

Season 9

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 9

9 Episodes

  • The Love Girl and the Innocent
    E1
    The Love Girl and the InnocentNemov is an honest man serving a term of 10 years for violations of Article 58. Nemov falls in love with Lyuba, who is having sex with the camp doctor Mereshchun, in exchange for better food and living conditions.
  • The Common
    E2
    The CommonAn exploration of the relationship between two couples from different social classes: one wealthy and Conservative, one poor and socialist.
  • The Recruiting Officer
    E3
    The Recruiting OfficerScoundrels are put on notice and women (literally) wear the pants in this uproarious comedy. Recruiting officers travel from port to port wooing men into service at sea, and women into their beds. Two such men, Worthy and Plume, land in Shrewsbury each in love with a woman who lives there.
  • Pygmalion
    E4
    PygmalionWhen linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet. Eliza moves into Higgins's home and begins her rigorous training after the professor comes to a financial agreement with her dustman father, Alfred. But the plucky young woman is not the only one undergoing a transformation.
  • The Changeling
    E5
    The ChangelingA woman falls in love with a sea captain, and plots to kill her fiance.
  • The Importance of Being Earnest
    E6
    The Importance of Being EarnestTwo young gentlemen living in 1890s England use the same pseudonym ('Ernest') on the sly, which is fine until they both fall in love with women using that name, which leads to a comedy of mistaken identities.
  • The Deep Blue Sea
    E7
    The Deep Blue SeaA woman unhappy in her passionless marriage leaves her husband for a younger and more ardent lover.
  • The Skin Game
    E8
    The Skin GameThe rivalry between a wealthy businessman and his lower-class, self-made rival gets very personal indeed.
  • Mrs. Warren's Profession
    E10
    Mrs. Warren's Profession

 

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