Ranked #2 of 11 in Season 3•+1.6 vs season avg
Loosely inspired from Gauguin's life, Charles Strickland is a middle-aged stockbroker who abandons his middle-classed life, his family, his duties to start painting, what he has always wanted to do. He is from now on a awful human being, wholly devoted to his ideal: beauty.
Cedric Messina
Producer
Donald McWhinnie
Director
Clive Exton
Writer
W. Somerset Maugham
Novel
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"The Moon and Sixpence" is episode 2 of BBC Play of the Month season 3. It scored 9.3/10 from 11 votes, ranking #2 of 11 episodes this season (season average 7.7). Directed by Donald McWhinnie and written by Clive Exton, it aired on November 12, 1967.