BBC Play of the Month
A BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays 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.
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Directors
John Gorrie
Director
Basil Coleman
Director

Rudolph Cartier
Director
Ages 61-79
Cedric Messina
Director
Ages 44-62
Donald McWhinnie
Director
Ages 45-62

Waris Hussein
Director
Ages 26-44
James Cellan Jones
Director
Ages 34-52
Alan Cooke
Director
Ages 39-57
James MacTaggart
Director
Ages 37-55
William Slater
Director
Ages 33-51

Alan Bridges
Director
Ages 38-55
Don Taylor
Director
Ages 29-47
David Giles
Director
Ages 39-56
Bill Hays
Director
Ages 27-45

Herbert Wise
Director
Ages 41-59

Alan Clarke
Director
Ages 29-47

Christopher Morahan
Director
Ages 36-54
James Ormerod
Director
Ages 41-59

Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Director
Ages 25-43

Michael Darlow
Director
Ages 31-49

Piers Haggard
Director
Ages 26-44
Alvin Rakoff
Director
Ages 38-56

Claude Whatham
Director
Ages 37-55

Anthony Page
Director
Ages 30-47
John Glenister
Director
Ages 33-50

Terence Dudley
Director
Ages 46-63

Jonathan Miller
Director
Ages 31-49
Ronald Wilson
Director
Ages 35-53

Stuart Burge
Director
Ages 47-65

Philip Saville
Director
Ages 34-52
Jane Howell
Director
Robert Knights
Director
Ages 23-41

David Hugh Jones
Director
Ages 31-49
Michael Elliott
Director
Raymond Menmuir
Director
Ages 35-53
Peter Wood
Director
Gareth Davies
Director

Alan Gibson
Director
Ages 27-45
Philip Dudley
Director
Michael Simpson
Director

Moira Armstrong
Director

Jack Gold
Director
Ages 35-53
Writers

George Bernard Shaw
Writer
Ages 109-127

Terence Rattigan
Writer
Ages 54-72
J. B. Priestley
Writer
Ages 71-88

Oscar Wilde
Writer
Ages 111-128

Henrik Ibsen
Writer
Ages 137-155
Hugh Whitemore
Writer
Ages 29-47

John Osborne
Writer
Ages 35-53
Arthur Wing Pinero
Writer
John Galsworthy
Writer
Ages 98-116
George Farquhar
Writer

Noël Coward
Writer
Ages 65-83
Richard B. Sheridan
Writer
Ages 213-231
Pauline Macaulay
Writer
Donald Bull
Writer
Ages 52-69
Denis Constanduros
Writer
Harley Granville-Barker
Writer
James MacTaggart
Writer
Ages 37-55

Molière
Writer
Ronald Hingley
Writer

Sophocles
Writer
Peter Nichols
Writer
Robin Maugham
Writer
Max Faber
Writer
David Mercer
Writer
Ages 37-55
Edward Bond
Writer
Stuart Griffiths
Writer
Gerald Savory
Writer

Alan Ayckbourn
Writer
Ronald Eyre
Writer
Ages 36-54
William Rowley
Writer
Clive Exton
Writer
Ages 35-53
Alun Owen
Writer
Ages 39-57

J.M. Barrie
Writer
Ages 105-123
Arnold Wesker
Writer
Ages 33-51

Rodney Ackland
Writer

H. G. Wells
Story
Ages 99-116
Richard Wilbur
Writer
Thomas Middleton
Writer
Frederick Lonsdale
Writer
Alex Comfort
Story

Tennessee Williams
Writer
Ages 54-72

Pierre de Marivaux
Writer

Christopher Hampton
Writer
Ages 19-37

Arthur Miller
Writer
Ages 50-67

Peter Shaffer
Writer
Maurice Hussey
Writer

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
Writer
Hugh Leonard
Writer
Ages 38-56
Michael Meyer
Writer

Alan Clarke
Writer
Ages 29-47
Maurice Edelman
Story
Ages 54-72
Margarete Steffin
Writer

Anatole de Grunwald
Writer
David Weir
Writer
Anthony Steven
Writer
Ages 49-67
William Wycherley
Writer
Heinar Kipphardt
Writer

Wolf Mankowitz
Writer
Ages 40-58

Mikhail Bulgakov
Writer
Ages 74-92
David Mercer
Writer
Ken Taylor
Writer
Ages 42-60
Eric Bentley
Writer

Athol Fugard
Writer
Ages 33-51
Original Language
en
Spoken Languages
English
Production Countries
GB
Production Companies
BBC

