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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 16 4 episodes

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E01 Dangerous Corner 22 May 1983

E02 The Gay Lord Quex 13 Jun 1983

E03 The Misanthrope 11 Jul 1983

E04 Infidelities 12 Sep 1983

► Season 15 5 episodes

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E01 I Have Been Here Before 24 May 1982

E02 On Approval 21 Jun 1982

E03 Little Eyolf 19 Jul 1982

E04 The Critic 23 Aug 1982

E05 The White Guard 20 Sep 1982

► Season 14 7 episodes

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E01 Kean 26 Nov 1978

E02 Marya 14 Jan 1979

E03 The Voysey Inheritance 04 Feb 1979

E04 Hello and Goodbye 04 Mar 1979

E05 The Wings of the Dove 08 Apr 1979

E06 Design for Living 05 Jun 1979

E07 The Kitchen 01 Jul 1979

► Season 13 7 episodes

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E01 You Never Can Tell 30 Oct 1977

E02 Waste 04 Dec 1977

E03 Flint 15 Jan 1978

E04 The Seagull 05 Feb 1978

E05 The Sea 05 Mar 1978

E06 The Beaux Stratagem 02 Apr 1978

E07 Danton's Death 23 Apr 1978

► Season 12 7 episodes

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E01 The Picture of Dorian Gray 19 Sep 1976

E02 London Assurance 10 Oct 1976

E03 Look Back in Anger 21 Nov 1976

E04 The Winslow Boy 16 Jan 1977

E05 The Country Wife 13 Feb 1977

E06 The Ambassadors 13 Mar 1977

E07 Heartbreak House 19 May 1977

► Season 11 8 episodes

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E01 Chips with Everything 28 Sep 1975

E02 The Little Minister 02 Nov 1975

E03 Love's Labour's Lost 14 Dec 1975

E04 When We Are Married 29 Dec 1975

E05 Trilby 24 Jan 1976

E06 Loyalties 28 Feb 1976

E07 The Chester Mystery Cycle 18 Apr 1976

E08 French Without Tears 16 May 1976

► Season 10 9 episodes

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E01 The Linden Tree 08 Sep 1974

E02 Electra 24 Oct 1974

E03 The Wood Demon 17 Oct 1974

E04 Robinson Crusoe 29 Nov 1974

E05 The Apple Cart 19 Jan 1975

E06 The School for Scandal 16 Feb 1975

E07 King Lear 23 Mar 1975

E08 Strife 18 May 1975

E10 The Shadow of a Gunman 20 Apr 1975

► Season 9 9 episodes

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E01 The Love Girl and the Innocent 16 Sep 1973

E02 The Common 27 Oct 1973

E03 The Recruiting Officer 18 Oct 1973

E04 Pygmalion 16 Dec 1973

E05 The Changeling 20 Jan 1974

E06 The Importance of Being Earnest 17 Feb 1974

E07 The Deep Blue Sea 17 Mar 1974

E08 The Skin Game 19 May 1974

E10 Mrs. Warren's Profession

► Season 8 10 episodes

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E01 The Millionairess 25 Sep 1972

E02 Hedda Gabler 20 Oct 1972

E03 King Oedipus 24 Nov 1972

E04 The Magistrate 20 Dec 1972

E05 The Adventures of Don Quixote 07 Jan 1973

E06 Candide 16 Feb 1973

E07 A Room with a View 15 Apr 1973

E08 The Caucasian Chalk Circle 16 May 1973

E09 The Duchess of Malfi 18 Jul 1973

E10 Peer Gynt 22 Aug 1973

► Season 7 11 episodes

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E01 A Midsummer Night's Dream 26 Sep 1971

E02 Rasputin 24 Oct 1971

E03 Tartuffe 28 Nov 1971

E04 The Cherry Orchard 19 Dec 1971

E05 Summer and Smoke 23 Jan 1972

E06 Stephen D 20 Feb 1972

E07 The Merchant of Venice 16 Apr 1972

E08 Lady Windermere's Fan 14 May 1972

E09 The Playboy of the Western World 11 Jun 1972

E10 She Stoops to Conquer 23 Jul 1972

E11 Trelawny of the "Wells" 13 Aug 1972

► Season 6 9 episodes

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E01 Macbeth 20 Sep 1970

E02 Ross 18 Oct 1970

E03 Uncle Vanya 08 Nov 1970

E04 Five Finger Exercise 24 Dec 1970

E05 Act of Betrayal 03 Jan 1971

E06 Candida 21 Feb 1971

E07 The Wild Duck 21 Mar 1971

E08 Don Juan in Hell 25 Apr 1971

E09 Platonov 23 May 1971

► Season 5 8 episodes

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E01 The Heiress 12 Oct 1969

E02 Charley's Aunt 23 Nov 1969

E03 The Marquis 14 Dec 1969

E04 Three Sisters 18 Jan 1970

E05 In Good King Charles's Golden Days 15 Feb 1970

E06 Separate Tables 15 Mar 1970

E07 Howards End 19 Apr 1970

E08 The Rivals 15 May 1970

► Season 4 9 episodes

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E01 St. Joan 01 Sep 1968

E02 The Male Animal 13 Oct 1968

E03 The Seagull 17 Nov 1968

E04 Waters of the Moon 24 Dec 1968

E05 Mary, Queen of Scots 12 Jan 1969

E06 Maigret at Bay 09 Feb 1969

E07 Relatively Speaking 02 Mar 1969

E08 Julius Caesar 13 Apr 1969

E09 An Ideal Husband 11 May 1969

► Season 3 11 episodes

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E01 Girls in Uniform 15 Oct 1967

E02 The Moon and Sixpence 12 Nov 1967

E03 Romeo and Juliet 03 Dec 1967

E04 The Parachute 21 Jan 1968

E05 Cyrano de Bergerac 11 Feb 1968

E06 Ghosts 17 Mar 1968

E07 The Corn Is Green 14 Apr 1968

E08 The Tempest 12 May 1968

E09 The Old Ladies 09 Jun 1968

E10 Man and Superman 07 Jul 1968

E11 Hay Fever 04 Aug 1968

► Season 2 5 episodes

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E01 Defection! The Case of Colonel Petrov 27 Sep 1966

E02 Days to Come 25 Oct 1966

E03 Corridors of Power 22 Nov 1966

E04 The Making of Jericho 20 Dec 1966

E05 The Cabinet Makers 14 Mar 1967

► Season 1 9 episodes

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E01 Luther 19 Oct 1965

E02 A Passage to India 16 Nov 1965

E03 The Joel Brand Story 04 Dec 1965

E04 The Millionairess 25 Sep 1972

E05 The White Guard 20 Sep 1982

E06 Macbeth 20 Sep 1970

E07 The Picture of Dorian Gray 19 Sep 1976

E08 The Love Girl and the Innocent 16 Sep 1973

E09 Infidelities 12 Sep 1983

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