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Drama
Seasons | 16
Episodes | 128
avg.Runtime | 90 min
First EP | 1965-10-19
Last EP | 1983-09-12
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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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Season List
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Relesed on | 1965-10-19
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Luther
1965-10-19
During the early 16th century, idealistic German monk Martin Luther, disgusted by the materialism in the church, begins the dialogue that will lead to the Protestant Reformation.
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A Passage to India
1965-11-16
Cultural 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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The Joel Brand Story
1965-12-14
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Gordon of Khartoum
1966-01-18
The story of Charles 'Chinese' Gordon, a brilliant but eccentric military commander, and his death defending Khartoum in 1885.
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Where Angels Fear to Tread
1966-02-15
After a rich Edwardian widow impulsively marries a handsome but poor Tuscan dentist and dies in childbirth, her English in-laws try to gain custody of the baby.
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Lee Oswald: Assassin
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.
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Make Me an Offer
1966-04-12
Antique dealer Charlie yearns to own a beautiful Portland vase.
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Death of a Salesman
1966-05-24
Willy Loman is an over-the-hill salesman who faces a personal turning point when he loses his job and attempts to make peace with his family: Willy's long-suffering wife Linda, and Biff and Happy, his troubled sons and his life.
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The Devil's Eggshell
1966-06-28
The discovery of mysterious egg-shaped objects at the sites of a series of disasters lead people to believe that we are being attacked by alien beings, but it is revealed to be a conspiracy hatched by a team of scientists intent on using an alien menace to unite the world. But their scheme backfires with fatal consequences...
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