BBC Play of the Month (1965)
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BBC Play of the Month (1965)
Plot.
Play of the Month is a BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays 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 from October 1965 to September 1983; the producer most associated with the Play of the Month was Cedric Messina.
Some of the 121 episodes are missing from the archives, having been junked in the 1960s and 1970s. Unless stated otherwise, the indication that the play is "lost" is taken from the lostshows.com website page as of 25 May 2013.
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Cast & Crew.
Cedric Messina
Producer
Daniel Day-Lewis
Gordon Whitehouse
Helen Mirren
Orinthia
Anthony Hopkins
Edmund Kean
Alan Rowe
Ambassador from Corinth
Richard Wilmot
Set Designer
Rudolph Cartier
Script / Director
John Gorrie
Director
Terence Dudley
Director
Don Taylor
Director
Christopher Morahan
Director
Alan Clarke
Director
Anthony Page
Director
Don Taylor
Director
Raymond Menmuir
Director
Robert Knights
Director
James Cellan Jones
Director
Waris Hussein
Director
Peter Luke
Producer
George Fenton
Music
John Elliot
Adaptation
William Rowley
Writer
Thomas Middleton
Writer
C.P. Snow
Novel
Felix Lützkendorf
Theatre Play
Anton Chekhov
Theatre Play
Sarah Badel
Olwen Peel / Natasha
Eileen Atkins
Catherine Sloper / Titania / Electra
Michael Gambon
Theseus / Gregory / Lt Cmdr Rogers
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
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
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
Judi Bowker
Betty Whitehouse
Pauline Collins
Lady Teazle
Anton Rodgers
The Marquess of Quex
Philip Stone
Weinand
T. P. McKenna
Kommissarov / Sir Lucius O'Trigger
Kevin Stoney
Vengerovich
David Hedison
John Buchanan
Tom Chadbon
George Emerson
Jenny Agutter
Anya / Hedvig Ekdal
Nicholas Pennell
Lieutenant Nicholl
Denholm Elliott
Hjalmar Ekdal, Hedvig's father
Ian McKellen
Captain Plume
Ian Holm
Oedipus / Khrushchov
Jennie Linden
Lydia Languish
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
John Woodvine
MacDuff
Peter Egan
Freddie
Zia Mohyeddin
Dr. Aziz / Bandi Grosz
Walter Sparrow
Man with basket
Victor Spinetti
Trivelin
Cyril Cusack
Waiter / Mr Fielding
Robin Askwith
Alec
Edward Woodward
Lopakhin / Caius Cassius
Lally Bowers
Mrs. Lavinia Penniman / The Dowager Empress
John Baskcomb
Telyeghin
Michael Pennington
Alexei Turbin
Saeed Jaffrey
Mr. Hamidullah
Ronald Fraser
Serebryakov
Rex Harrison
Mikhail Platonov, schoolmaster / Don Quixote
Colin Jeavons
Snake
Michael Hordern
God / Mr. Posket
John Stride
Morris Townsend
John Quarmby
Mereshchun
Brian Blessed
Sgt. Kite
Jerold Wells
Hans
Hannah Gordon
The Duchess of Strood / Amy O'Connell
Ronald Lacey
Barber
Patrick Magee
Fergus Crampton / Tetzel
Cyril Shaps
Herbin / Joel Brand
Roger Delgado
Officer of the Holy Brotherhood
Jerome Willis
Le Bret / The Sea Captain
Vincent Price
Dr. Austin Sloper
James Aubrey
The Prince
Ronnie Barker
Henry Ormonroyd
Frank Finlay
Marcus Brutus / Sancho Panza / Voltaire
Maurice Denham
Julius Caesar
Tom Baker
Egyptian Doctor
Ian Ogilvy
Candide / Thomas Aimwell / Rev. Gavin Dishart
George Merritt
Mr. Scruple
Thora Hird
Clare Soppitt / Nurse
Alec McCowen
Martin Luther
Christopher Guard
Lucius
Godfrey James
Taylor / M. Amellius Lepidus
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
Russell Hunter
Crabtree
Keith Barron
Dr. Quilliam
Charles Gray
Mr. Beebe / Gayev / Adrian Blenderbland
Beryl Reid
Maria Helliwell / Mrs. Malaprop
Tim Wylton
Blacksmith
Leonard Rossiter
Colonel Lukyn / The Prime Minister
Andrew Robertson
Lackey
Tom Courtenay
Jesus
Ray Barrett
Knight
Eric Porter
Macbeth / Cyrano De Bergerac / Councillor Albert Parker / Arthur Winslow
Michael Culver
Holborn
James Villiers
Alastair Fitzfassenden / Professor Henry Higgins
Christopher Benjamin
Dr. Relling / A Cobbler
Peter Barkworth
Julius Sagamore / Tsar Nicholas II
Geoffrey Beevers
Telephonist
Alun Armstrong
Lightborne
Edward Fox
Charles Surface / Captain Dancy, DSO
John Gielgud
Chorus / Captain Shotover / Lord Burleigh
Neil McCarthy
Osip, bandit
Virginia McKenna
Adela Quested
Robert Stephens
Mark Antony / Grigory Rasputin
Geoffrey Bayldon
Cajetan / Dyadin / Sergei Voinitsev, Anna's stepson
Christopher Timothy
Cinna the Poet / Fedotik
Charles Kay
de Levis / Tybalt / Vladimir Talberg
John Abineri
Marullus / General von Schratt
Stanley Baker
Robinson Crusoe / De Flores
Donald Pickering
Julius Sagamore / Soliony
Jeremy Brett
Joseph Surface / Captain Jack Absolute
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
Robert Ayres
Chairman
Paul Maxwell
Lieutenant John E Donovan
Shane Rimmer
Marine Sergeant
Tony Bill
Lee Harvey Oswald
Callen Angelo
First US Marine
Harry Tierney
Powers, US Marine
Colin Maitland
Second US Marine
John Alderson
Richard F Snyder, US Consul in Moscow
Francis Napier
John McVicker, US Vice-Consul in Moscow
Patricia Denys
Rima Shirokova, Intourist guide in Moscow
Harold Goldblatt
Messenger of the Aliens Deptartment, Moscow
Pearl Catlin
Priscilla Johnson, American News Correspondent
Sarah Brackett
Katherine Mallory, University of Michigan
Dora Reisser
Marina Oswald
Warren Mitchell
Spas T Raikin, Traveller's Aid Representative
Thick Wilson
Reporter
Barry Shawzin
George
Marika Rivera
Jeanne
Dalia Penn
Señora Duran
George Roderick
Señor Eusebio Azque, Cuban Consulate
John Mackin
Kenneth O'Donnell
Donald Sutherland
Charles Givens
David Healy
Radio Announcer
Reed De Rouen
Interrogator / Script
Hal Galili
Patrolman Tippit
Doris Nolan
Mrs Markham, a Waitress
David Graham
Shoe Store Manager
Sheila Black
Cinema Cashier
David Bauer
Chief of Police
Philip Oxman
Detective Baker
David Cargill
First Reporter
Nicole Shelby
Virginia Davies
Carol Cleveland
Barbara Davies
Leo Britt
British Reporter
Grant Taylor
Second Reporter
Glenn Beck
Third Reporter
Norman Pilkington
Television Announcer
Sidney Cosson
Photographer
Tony Sibbald
Photographer
John De Marco
Jack Ruby
Kenneth Allsop
Narrator
Candace Glendenning
Anya Hvostov / Beatie Tomlinson / Rose
Brian Cox
Alsemero
Details.
Release DateOctober 19, 1965
StatusEnded
Seasons16
Episodes128
Running Time1h 30m
Genres
Last updated:
This TV Show Is About.
anthology
based on play or musical
Scripted
Wiki.
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.
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