The Best Episodes of BBC Play of the Month Season 9

Episode Rankings

1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   6.5/10(47 votes)

   #1 - The Love Girl and the Innocent

   S9:E19/16/1973

   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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   Director:Alan Clarke

   Writer:Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
2. 

   7.7/10(11 votes)

   #2 - The Common

   S9:E210/27/1973

   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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   Director:Christopher Morahan

   Writer:Peter Nichols
3. 

   7.7/10(37 votes)

   #3 - The Recruiting Officer

   S9:E310/18/1973

   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.

   Director:David Giles

   Writer:George Farquhar

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   Director:David Giles

   Writer:George Farquhar
4. 

   7.3/10(72 votes)

   #4 - Pygmalion

   S9:E412/16/1973

   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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   Director:Cedric Messina

   Writer:George Bernard Shaw
5. 

   7.4/10(71 votes)

   #5 - The Changeling

   S9:E51/20/1974

   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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   Director:Anthony Page

   Writers:William Rowley, Thomas Middleton
6. 

   8.8/10(30 votes)

   #6 - The Importance of Being Earnest

   S9:E62/17/1974

   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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   Director:James MacTaggart

   Writer:Oscar Wilde
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7. 

   8.6/10(13 votes)

   #7 - The Deep Blue Sea

   S9:E73/17/1974

   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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   Director:Rudolph Cartier

   Writer:Terence Rattigan
8. 

   8.7/10(10 votes)

   #8 - The Skin Game

   S9:E85/19/1974

   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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   Director:William Slater

   Writer:John Galsworthy