BBC Play of the Month - Season 7

BBC Play of the Month - Season 7

Season 7

Network
Episodes9
DatesSep 26, 1971 - May 14, 1972
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Episodes

A Midsummer Night's Dream
Season 7Episode 190 min

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Mistaken identity, unrequited love, and the supernatural are combined in Shakespeare's classic set in the woods of Greece on a moonlit night.
Sep 26, 1971
Rasputin
Season 7Episode 290 min

Rasputin

Robert Stephens stars in a drama about the mysterious peasant monk who held enormous influence at the Russian court for over a decade, before his murder in 1916.
Oct 24, 1971
Tartuffe
Season 7Episode 390 min

Tartuffe

Orgon is a man of property duped by the false piety of the penniless Tartuffe. Orgon takes him into his house, believing him a paragon of virtue. Orgon orders his daughter to reject her fiancé and marry Tartuffe.
Nov 28, 1971
The Cherry Orchard
Season 7Episode 490 min

The Cherry Orchard

Madamr Ranevskaya is a spoiled, aging aristocrat who returns from Paris to face the loss of her magnificent cherry orchard estate after a default on the mortgage. In denial, she continues living in the past, deluding herself and her family, while the beautiful cherry trees are being axed down by the repossessor Lopakhin, her former serf, who has his own agenda.
Dec 19, 1971
Summer and Smoke
Season 7Episode 590 min

Summer and Smoke

A plain, repressed spinster falls for a dashing young medical student, but he prefers the wilder life, until it's too late.
Jan 23, 1972
Stephen D
Season 7Episode 690 min

Stephen D

Stephen Dedalus comes of age in a Dublin changing radically as the 20th century nears.
Feb 20, 1972
The Merchant of Venice
Season 7Episode 790 min

The Merchant of Venice

Antonio's friend Bassanio is in love and needs money to go courting. Using Antonio as his collateral, he borrows money from Shylock. But when the debt comes due, Shylock demands repayment in the form of a pound of Antonio's flesh.
Apr 16, 1972
Lady Windermere's Fan
Season 7Episode 890 min

Lady Windermere's Fan

Lady Windermere suspects that her husband is having an affair with another woman; she confronts him with it.
May 14, 1972
Trelawny of the 'Wells'
Season 7Episode 990 min

Trelawny of the 'Wells'

Aug 13, 1972

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