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Play of the Month is a BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays which were 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; the producer most associated with the Play of the Month was Cedric Messina. Some of the 121 episodes are missing from the archives, having been junked in the 1960s and 1970s. Unless stated otherwise, the indication that the play is "lost" is taken from the lostshows.com website page as of 25 May 2013.
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Episode 1 - Luther
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Episode 2 - A Passage to India
Release Date: 1965-11-16Cultural 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.
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Episode 3 - The Joel Brand Story
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Episode 4 - Gordon of Khartoum
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Episode 5 - Where Angels Fear to Tread
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Episode 6 - Lee Oswald - Assassin
Release Date: 1966-03-15'The life of Lee Harvey Oswald, the man who shot President John F. Kennedy, as reported to the Warren Commission enquiry into the circumstances of the assassination.' (BFI Screenonline)
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Episode 7 - Make Me an Offer
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Episode 8 - Death of a Salesman
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Episode 9 - The Devil's Eggshell
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Episode 10 - The Linden Tree
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Episode 11 - St. Joan
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Episode 12 - You Never Can Tell
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Episode 13 - The Common
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Episode 14 - Days to Come
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Episode 15 - Electra
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Episode 16 - Rasputin
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Episode 17 - Hedda Gabler
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Episode 18 - Luther
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Episode 19 - Ross
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Episode 20 - Girls in Uniform
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Episode 21 - The Male Animal
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Episode 22 - The Heiress
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Episode 23 - London Assurance
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Episode 24 - Tartuffe
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Episode 25 - Kean
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Episode 26 - King Oedipus
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Episode 27 - Charley's Aunt
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Episode 28 - Corridors of Power
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Episode 29 - Look Back in Anger
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Episode 30 - The Recruiting Officer
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Episode 31 - The Wood Demon
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Episode 32 - The Seagull
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Episode 33 - A Passage to India
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Episode 34 - The Moon and Sixpence
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Episode 35 - Uncle Vanya
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Episode 36 - The Little Minister
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Episode 37 - I Have Been Here Before
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Episode 38 - Death of a Salesman
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Episode 39 - Platonov
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Episode 40 - Dangerous Corner
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Episode 41 - Heartbreak House
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Episode 42 - The Skin Game
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Episode 43 - Strife
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Episode 44 - French Without Tears
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Episode 45 - The Caucasian Chalk Circle
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Episode 46 - The Rivals
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Episode 47 - Lady Windermere's Fan
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Episode 48 - The Tempest
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Episode 49 - An Ideal Husband
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Episode 50 - King Lear
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Episode 51 - The Wild Duck
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Episode 52 - The Deep Blue Sea
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Episode 53 - Ghosts
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Episode 54 - Separate Tables
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Episode 55 - Lee Oswald--Assassin
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Episode 56 - The Cabinet Papers
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Episode 57 - The Ambassadors
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Episode 58 - Hello and Goodbye
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Episode 59 - Relatively Speaking
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Episode 60 - The Devil's Eggshell
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Episode 61 - On Approval
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Episode 62 - The Gay Lord Quex
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Episode 63 - The Old Ladies
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Episode 64 - Noel Coward's Design for Living
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Episode 65 - Little Eyolf
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Episode 66 - Man and Superman
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Episode 67 - Trilby
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Episode 68 - Summer and Smoke
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Episode 69 - The Parachute
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Episode 70 - The Changeling
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Episode 71 - The Apple Cart
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Episode 72 - Three Sisters
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Episode 73 - Gordon of Khartoum
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Episode 74 - The Winslow Boy
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Episode 75 - Flint
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Episode 76 - Marya
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Episode 77 - Mary Queen of Scots
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Episode 78 - The Adventures of Don Quixote
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Episode 79 - Act of Betrayal
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Episode 80 - Loyalties
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Episode 81 - Candida
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Episode 82 - Stephen D
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Episode 83 - The Importance of Being Earnest
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Episode 84 - The School for Scandal
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Episode 85 - Candide
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Episode 86 - In Good King Charles's Golden Days
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Episode 87 - The Country Wife
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Episode 88 - Cyrano de Bergerac
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Episode 89 - Maigret at Bay
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Episode 90 - The Seagull
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Episode 91 - The Voysey Inheritance
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Episode 92 - Where Angels Fear to Tread
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Episode 93 - When We Are Married
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Episode 94 - Robinson Crusoe
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Episode 95 - Five Finger Exercise
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Episode 96 - Waters of the Moon
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Episode 97 - The Magistrate
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Episode 98 - The Making of Jericho
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Episode 99 - The Cherry Orchard
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Episode 100 - Pygmalion
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Episode 101 - Love's Labour's Lost
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Episode 102 - The Marquis
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Episode 103 - The Joel Brand Story
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Episode 104 - Waste
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Episode 105 - Romeo and Juliet
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Episode 106 - The Critic
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Episode 107 - Trelawny of the Wells
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Episode 108 - Hay Fever
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Episode 109 - Don Juan in Hell
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Episode 110 - Danton's Death
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Episode 111 - Howards End
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Episode 112 - The Chester Mystery Plays
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Episode 113 - The Merchant of Venice
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Episode 114 - A Room with a View
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Episode 115 - The Corn Is Green
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Episode 116 - Julius Caesar
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Episode 117 - Make Me an Offer
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Episode 118 - The Wings of the Dove
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Episode 119 - The Beaux' Stratagem
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Episode 120 - Mrs. Warren's Profession
Release Date: 1972-10-03A very proper young woman is horrified to discover not only that her mother once worked as a prostitute in order to support her, but that she later became a whorehouse madam rather than give up the business.