BBC Play of the Month

Seasons

1965

7

Monthly anthology series featuring televised versions of plays.

Episode List

S1 • E1

Luther

During the early 16th Century idealistic German monk Martin Luther, disgusted by the materialism in the church, begins the dialogue that will lead to the Protestant Reformation.

S1 • E2

Passage to India

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.

S1 • E3

The Joel Brand Story

S1 • E4

Gordon of Khartoum

The story of General Charles "Chinese" Gordon, a brilliant but eccentric military commander, and his death defending Khartoum in 1885.

S1 • E5

Where Angels Fear to Tread

After a rich Edwardian widow impulsively marries a handsome but poor Tuscan dentist and dies in childbirth, her English in-laws try to gain custody of the baby.

S1 • E6

Lee Oswald: Assassin

The story of the man accused of killing President Kennedy.

S1 • E7

Make Me an Offer

Antique dealer Charlie yearns to own a beautiful Portland vase.

S1 • E8

Death of a Salesman

Willy Loman is an over-the-hill salesman who faces a personal turning point when he loses his job and attempts to make peace with his family: Willy's long-suffering wife Linda, and Biff and Happy, his troubled sons and his life.

S1 • E9

The Devil's Eggshell

The discovery of mysterious egg-shaped objects at the sites of a series of disasters lead people to believe that we are being attacked by alien beings, but it is revealed to be a conspiracy hatched by a team of scientists intent on using an alien menace to unite the world. But their scheme backfires with fatal consequences...