BBC Play of the Month - Season 13

First aired: 10/30/1977 7 episodes

Episodes

1. You Never Can Tell

Aired: 10/30/1977

A dentist falls in love and a family accidentally meet the father they have never known.

2. Waste

Aired: 12/4/1977

Centres around ambitious independent politician Henry Trebell, his plans for a bill to disestablish the Church of England, and his fall from grace and suicide after his affair with a married woman who dies following a botched abortion.

3. Flint

Aired: 1/15/1978

Ossian Flint is an elderly Anglican vicar whose way of life has long been the cause of scandal. He has had as little respect for the seventh commandment during nearly half a century of married life as he has had faith since his ordination. The winter of his life is transformed by his encounter with Dixie, a simple young Irish hirl, unmarried and pregnant, late of Holloway prison.

4. The Seagull

Aired: 2/5/1978

A group of friends and relations gather at a country estate to see the first performance of an experimental play written and staged by the young man of the house, Konstantin, an aspiring writer who dreams of bringing new forms to the theatre.

5. The Sea

Aired: 3/5/1978

In 1907, after a tempestuous storm claims the life of a well-known and loved member of the community, the reactions of the villagers are explored, as well as the attempts by two young lovers to break away from the constraints of the hierarchical, and sometimes irrational, society.

6. The Beaux Stratagem

Aired: 4/2/1978

Two gentlemen have fallen on hard times, so they plan to travel through small towns, entrap young heiresses, steal their money and move on, but romance gets in the way.

7. Danton's Death

Aired: 4/23/1978

Georges Danton, a leader of the French Revolution, created the office of the Revolutionary Tribunal as a strong arm for the Revolutionary Government. Within months, he knew this power was a terrible mistake and fought to have it ended with tragic consequences.