BBC Play of the Month - Season 11

1. Chips with Everything

Aired: 9/28/1975

Pip is a socialist who has seen the squalor of the East End, typified by greasy cafés offering 'chips with everything'. Pip is also the only privately-educated recruit in a draft of other National Service recruits. He's tried to buck the system by not applying for an officer's commission.

2. The Little Minister

Aired: 11/2/1975

In rural 1840s Scotland, Gavin Dishart arrives to become the new 'little minister' of Thrums's Auld Licht church. He meets a mysterious young gypsy girl in the dens and to his horror Babbie draws him into her escape from the soldiers after she incites a Luddite riot. But unknown to Gavin, Babbie is more than she seems, and they must overcome her secret, the villagers' fears of her, and--worst of all--Gavin's devotion to his mother's sensibilities, before they can openly declare their love.

3. Love's Labour's Lost

Aired: 12/14/1975

A scholarly king and his three companions swear off the society of women for three years, only to have a diplomatic visit from a French princess and her three ladies-in-waiting thwart their intentions.

4. When We Are Married

Aired: 12/29/1975

At the turn of the 20th century, a set of long-married couples discover that due to a bureaucratic quirk they have never actually been married.

5. Trilby

Aired: 1/24/1976

Trilby, a young Irish girl in Paris, falls under the influence of the sinister hypnotist Svengali.

6. Loyalties

Aired: 2/28/1976

7. The Chester Mystery Cycle

Aired: 4/18/1976

A quartet of mystery plays originally based in Chester.

8. French Without Tears

Aired: 5/16/1976

The romantic and comic adventures of a quintet of young Englishmen in France, on a course to learn the language.