BBC Play of the Month
Season 9
19739 episodes
Episode 1
The Love Girl and the Innocent
Sep 16, 19732h 7m
Nemov is an honest man serving a term of 10 years for violations of Article 58. Nemov falls in love with Lyuba, who is having sex with the camp doctor Mereshchun, in exchange for better food and living conditions.
Episode 2
The Common
Oct 27, 1973
An exploration of the relationship between two couples from different social classes: one wealthy and Conservative, one poor and socialist.
Episode 3
The Recruiting Officer
Oct 18, 1973
Scoundrels are put on notice and women (literally) wear the pants in this uproarious comedy. Recruiting officers travel from port to port wooing men into service at sea, and women into their beds. Two such men, Worthy and Plume, land in Shrewsbury each in love with a woman who lives there.
Episode 4
Pygmalion
Dec 16, 19732h
When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet. Eliza moves into Higgins's home and begins her rigorous training after the professor comes to a financial agreement with her dustman father, Alfred. But the plucky young woman is not the only one undergoing a transformation.
Episode 5
The Changeling
Jan 20, 19741h 43m
A woman falls in love with a sea captain, and plots to kill her fiance.
Episode 6
The Importance of Being Earnest
Feb 17, 19741h 40m
Two young gentlemen living in 1890s England use the same pseudonym ('Ernest') on the sly, which is fine until they both fall in love with women using that name, which leads to a comedy of mistaken identities.
Episode 7
The Deep Blue Sea
Mar 17, 1974
A woman unhappy in her passionless marriage leaves her husband for a younger and more ardent lover.
Episode 8
The Skin Game
May 19, 1974
The rivalry between a wealthy businessman and his lower-class, self-made rival gets very personal indeed.
Episode 10
Mrs. Warren's Profession
Air date not announced