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The Best Episodes of BBC Play of the Month Season 9

Every episode of BBC Play of the Month Season 9 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of BBC Play of the Month Season 9!

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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

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    BBC Play of the Month Season 9 Episode 6 - The Importance of Being Earnest
    8.8/10(31 votes)

    S9:E6

    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.

    Director:James MacTaggart
    Writer:Oscar Wilde

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  2. BBC Play of the Month Season 9 Episode 7 - The Deep Blue Sea
    8.6/10(13 votes)

    S9:E7

    A woman unhappy in her passionless marriage leaves her husband for a younger and more ardent lover.

    Director:Rudolph Cartier
    Writer:Terence Rattigan

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  3. BBC Play of the Month Season 9 Episode 8 - The Skin Game
    8.6/10(11 votes)

    S9:E8

    The rivalry between a wealthy businessman and his lower-class, self-made rival gets very personal indeed.

    Director:William Slater
    Writer:John Galsworthy

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  4. BBC Play of the Month Season 9 Episode 3 - The Recruiting Officer
    7.8/10(37 votes)

    S9:E3

    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.

    Director:David Giles
    Writer:George Farquhar

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  5. BBC Play of the Month Season 9 Episode 2 - The Common
    7.7/10(11 votes)

    S9:E2

    An exploration of the relationship between two couples from different social classes: one wealthy and Conservative, one poor and socialist.

    Director:Christopher Morahan
    Writer:Peter Nichols

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  6. BBC Play of the Month Season 9 Episode 5 - The Changeling
    7.4/10(73 votes)

    S9:E5

    A woman falls in love with a sea captain, and plots to kill her fiance.

    Director:Anthony Page
    Writers:William Rowley, Thomas Middleton

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  7. BBC Play of the Month Season 9 Episode 4 - Pygmalion
    7.3/10(73 votes)

    S9:E4

    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.

    Director:Cedric Messina
    Writer:George Bernard Shaw

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  8. BBC Play of the Month Season 9 Episode 1 - The Love Girl and the Innocent
    6.5/10(47 votes)

    S9:E1

    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.

    Director:Alan Clarke
    Writer:Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

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Season 9 Ratings Summary

"The Importance of Being Earnest" is the best rated episode of "BBC Play of the Month" season 9. It scored 8.8/10 based on 31 votes. Directed by James MacTaggart and written by Oscar Wilde, it aired on 2/17/1974. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "The Deep Blue Sea".