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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!

The Best Episodes of BBC Play of the Month Season 9

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...
  1. Background image for The Love Girl and the Innocent
    6.5/10(47 votes)

    #1 - The Love Girl and the Innocent

    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.

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  2. Background image for The Common
    7.8/10(11 votes)

    #2 - The Common

    S9:E2

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

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  3. Background image for The Recruiting Officer
    7.7/10(37 votes)

    #3 - The Recruiting Officer

    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.

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  4. Background image for Pygmalion
    7.2/10(68 votes)

    #4 - Pygmalion

    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.

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  5. Background image for The Changeling
    7.3/10(70 votes)

    #5 - The Changeling

    S9:E5

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

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  6. Background image for The Importance of Being Earnest
    9.0/10(29 votes)

    #6 - The Importance of Being Earnest

    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.

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  8. Background image for The Deep Blue Sea
    8.4/10(13 votes)

    #7 - The Deep Blue Sea

    S9:E7

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

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  9. Background image for The Skin Game
    8.6/10(10 votes)

    #8 - The Skin Game

    S9:E8

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

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Season 9 Ratings Summary

"The Love Girl and the Innocent" is the best rated episode of "BBC Play of the Month" season 9. It scored 6.5/10 based on 47 votes. Directed by Alan Clarke and written by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, it aired on 9/16/1973. This episode is rated 1.3 points higher than the second-best, "The Common".