BBC Play of the Month (1965)
BBC Play of the Month (1965)
Plot.
Where to Watch.
This TV Show Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Cedric Messina
Producer
Daniel Day-Lewis
Gordon Whitehouse
Helen Mirren
Orinthia
Anthony Hopkins
Edmund Kean
Alan Rowe
Ambassador from Corinth
John Gorrie
Director
James Cellan Jones
Director
Don Taylor
Director
Christopher Morahan
Director
Rudolph Cartier
Director
Robert Knights
Director
Alan Clarke
Director
Raymond Menmuir
Director
Terence Dudley
Director
Waris Hussein
Director
Don Taylor
Director
George Fenton
Music
John Elliot
Adaptation
Anton Chekhov
Theatre Play
C.P. Snow
Novel
Sarah Badel
Natasha / Olwen Peel
Eileen Atkins
Catherine Sloper / Titania / Electra
Michael Gambon
Theseus / Lt Cmdr Rogers / Gregory
Daphne Heard
Witch
Bruce Purchase
Taffy
Brenda Fricker
Emma
Andrew Burt
Galanba
Maggie Smith
Epifania
David Daker
Cpl. Hill
Christopher Gable
Trofimov
Roland Culver
Serebriakov
Jill Bennett
Anna
Vladek Sheybal
Mr. Miller
Ram John Holder
Friday
Timothy Dalton
Clive Harrington
Arthur Lowe
Sir Oliver Surface
Tessa Wyatt
Lisette
Anton Diffring
Adolf Eichmann
John Savident
Purishkevich
John Franklyn-Robbins
Colonel J.D.H. Stewart
Peter Copley
The Home Secretary
Jonathan Scott-Taylor
Ronnie Winslow
Don Henderson
Mercier
Dinah Sheridan
Lady Adela
John Castle
Merton Densher
Jeremy Irons
Edward Voysey
David Battley
Costar Pearmain
Julian Holloway
Sir Chichester Frayne
Sybil Thorndike
Mrs Moore
Barry Morse
Rev. Winemiller
Barrie Ingham
Captain Horace Vale
Patrick Stewart
Gurvich
Donald Sutherland
Charles Givens
Angela Pleasence
Julia
Annette Crosbie
Frances Trebell
Georgina Hale
Masha
John Thaw
Banquo
Hilary Mason
Mrs. Elton
Joss Ackland
Chebutykin
David Troughton
Smiler Washington
Judy Geeson
Lucy Honeychurch
Gordon Gostelow
Maxim
Brenda Bruce
Lady Bountiful
Emrys James
Dr. Pangloss
Norman Rodway
Danton
Paul Raffield
Manservant
Burt Kwouk
Wu Hsien Ching
Elizabeth Spriggs
Maud Lowder
Alan Badel
General Gordon
Lee Remick
Alma Winemiller
John Carson
Charles Winsor
Jane Asher
Melinda
Stanley Baker
Robinson Crusoe
Freddie Jones
Vanya
Ray Brooks
Yasha
John Hollis
1st Prisoner
Bernard Lee
Sir Peter Teazle
Robert Eddison
Prince Andronikov
David Kelly
Mr. Casey, Director of College
Esmond Knight
Helmut
Charlotte Rampling
Flaminia
Warren Mitchell
Spas T. Raikin, Traveller's Aid Rep.
Judi Bowker
Betty Whitehouse
Pauline Collins
Lady Teazle
Anton Rodgers
The Marquess of Quex
Philip Stone
Weinand
Kevin Stoney
Vengerovich
David Hedison
John Buchanan
T. P. McKenna
Sir Lucius O'Trigger / Kommissarov
Tom Chadbon
George Emerson
Nicholas Pennell
Lieutenant Nicholl
Jenny Agutter
Hedvig Ekdal / Anya
Denholm Elliott
Hjalmar Ekdal, Hedvig's father
Ian McKellen
Captain Plume
Jennie Linden
Lydia Languish
Ian Holm
Oedipus / Khrushchov
Ian Richardson
Robespierre
Peter Jeffrey
Comte De Guiche
Patricia Routledge
Annie Parker
Kate Nicholls
Dolly Clandon
Paul Daneman
Henry Trebell
Rachel Thomas
Peasant's wife
Julie Covington
Beatrice Voysey
Anthony Valentine
Charles Stanton
Michael Bates
Professor Godbole
Paul Maxwell
Lieut. John E. Donovan
John Woodvine
MacDuff
Peter Egan
Freddie
Walter Sparrow
Man with basket
Zia Mohyeddin
Dr. Aziz / Bandi Grosz
Victor Spinetti
Trivelin
Cyril Cusack
Mr Fielding / Waiter
Robin Askwith
Alec
Lally Bowers
Mrs. Lavinia Penniman / The Dowager Empress
Edward Woodward
Lopakhin / Caius Cassius
John Baskcomb
Telyeghin
Michael Pennington
Alexei Turbin
Saeed Jaffrey
Mr. Hamidullah
Rex Harrison
Don Quixote / Mikhail Platonov, schoolmaster
Ronald Fraser
Serebryakov
Colin Jeavons
Snake
Michael Hordern
God / Mr. Posket
John Stride
Morris Townsend
John Quarmby
Mereshchun
Tony Bill
Lee Harvey Oswald
Hannah Gordon
Amy O'Connell / The Duchess of Strood
Brian Blessed
Sgt. Kite
Jerold Wells
Hans
Patrick Magee
Tetzel / Fergus Crampton
Ronald Lacey
Barber
Cyril Shaps
Joel Brand / Herbin
Jerome Willis
The Sea Captain / Le Bret
Roger Delgado
Officer of the Holy Brotherhood
Vincent Price
Dr. Austin Sloper
James Aubrey
The Prince
Ronnie Barker
Henry Ormonroyd
Frank Finlay
Marcus Brutus / Sancho Panza / Voltaire
Shane Rimmer
Marine Sergeant
Maurice Denham
Julius Caesar
Thora Hird
Nurse / Clare Soppitt
Tom Baker
Egyptian Doctor
Ian Ogilvy
Candide / Thomas Aimwell / Rev. Gavin Dishart
George Merritt
Mr. Scruple
Alec McCowen
Martin Luther
Christopher Guard
Lucius
Godfrey James
M. Amellius Lepidus / Taylor
Paul Whitsun-Jones
1st Innkeeper
Leonie Mellinger
Silvia
John Ringham
Major von Dust
Bernard Hepton
Lord Portmandeau
Alec Bregonzi
Poacher
Christopher Biggins
Lord of the court
Fulton Mackay
Eck
Stacey Tendeter
Katya, maid / Maid
Beryl Reid
Mrs. Malaprop / Maria Helliwell
Charles Gray
Adrian Blenderbland / Mr. Beebe / Gayev
Russell Hunter
Crabtree
Keith Barron
Dr. Quilliam
Tim Wylton
Blacksmith
Leonard Rossiter
The Prime Minister / Colonel Lukyn
Andrew Robertson
Lackey
Tom Courtenay
Jesus
Eric Porter
Councillor Albert Parker / Arthur Winslow / Cyrano De Bergerac / Macbeth
Ray Barrett
Knight
Michael Culver
Holborn
James Villiers
Professor Henry Higgins / Alastair Fitzfassenden
Christopher Benjamin
Dr. Relling / A Cobbler
Peter Barkworth
Tsar Nicholas II / Julius Sagamore
Geoffrey Beevers
Telephonist
Alun Armstrong
Lightborne
John Gielgud
Chorus / Captain Shotover / Lord Burleigh
Edward Fox
Captain Dancy, DSO / Charles Surface
Neil McCarthy
Osip, bandit
Virginia McKenna
Adela Quested
Robert Stephens
Mark Antony / Grigory Rasputin
Geoffrey Bayldon
Cajetan / Sergei Voinitsev, Anna's stepson / Dyadin
Charles Kay
de Levis / Vladimir Talberg / Tybalt
Christopher Timothy
Cinna the Poet / Fedotik
John Abineri
General von Schratt / Marullus
Donald Pickering
Julius Sagamore / Soliony
Jeremy Brett
Captain Jack Absolute / Joseph Surface
Lynn Redgrave
Eliza Doolittle
Kika Markham
Juliet
Hywel Bennett
Romeo / Mr King
Nigel Hawthorne
Mr Sneer
Janet Suzman
Masha
Michele Dotrice
Irina
Michael Bryant
Vershinin
Ronald Hines
Toozenbach
Richard Pearson
Koolyghin
Matthew Roberton
Rodé
Erik Chitty
Ferapont
Marda Vanne
Anfisa
Lisa Carroll
Maid
Jenny Harrington
Maid
Maeve Leslie
Nurse
Ronald Pickup
Mercutio
David Griffin
Benvolio
Jonathan Dennis
Paris
Edward Burnham
Lord Capulet
Stephanie Bidmead
Lady Capulet
Brian Badcoe
Lord Montague
Clare Austin
Lady Montague
Anthony Newlands
Friar Laurence
Peter Purves
John Normington
Tony Haygarth
Brian Glover
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Play of the Month is a BBC television anthology series, which ran from 1965 to 1983 featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays (or adaptations) which were usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles. The series was transmitted regularly from October 1965 to May 1979, before returning for the summer seasons of 1982 and 1983. The producer most associated with the Play of the Month series was Cedric Messina. Thirteen productions were also shown previously or subsequently on BBC2 in the period 1971-73 under Stage 2. Productions were broadcast in colour from November 1969.
Of the 128 productions, 40 are missing from the archives (except for short sequences in several cases), having been junked in the 1960s and 1970s. One colour production exists only as a black & white telerecording.