NET Playhouse
Season 5
19704 episodes
Episode 1
Helen Hayes Remembers
Oct 11, 1970
Helen Hayes recreates some of her most famous stage roles, such as Mary Stuart in "Mary of Scotland", Queen Victoria in "Victoria Regina", Nora Melody in "A Touch of the Poet" and Grandma in "The American Dream".
Episode 23
George Eliot
Apr 22, 1971
George Eliot whose Victorian novels of social comment include "Silas Mar-ner" and "The Mill on the Floss." Is the subject of this drama, which focuses on the years of frustration in her late 20s and early 30s. Turning point in her life: literary critic George Henry Lewes becomes her common-law husband and persuades her to write fiction.
Episode 24
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Apr 29, 1971
Ludwig Van Beethoven was considered an eccentric undisciplined musician in his youth. This drama centers on his struggle for recognition between the ages of 22 and 35,. the period when he began a romance that his career destroyed; came to terms with his loneliness and advancing deafness; and, finally won acclaim as a genius
Episode 30
Julius Caesar
May 17, 19712h
William Shakespeare's timeless tragedy about political treachery and assassination is presented as part of the "Biography" series,