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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 Worst Episode
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    BBC Play of the Month Season 7 Episode 10 - She Stoops to Conquer
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S7:E10

    No description available

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. BBC Play of the Month Season 7 Episode 11 - Trelawny of the "Wells"
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    S7:E11

    A theatrical troupe from the west end of London loses its leading lady when she elopes with a wealthy young man from the other side of town.

    Director:Herbert Wise
    Writer:Arthur Wing Pinero

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  3. BBC Play of the Month Season 8 Episode 9 - The Duchess of Malfi
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S8:E9

    No description available

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. BBC Play of the Month Season 8 Episode 10 - Peer Gynt
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S8:E10

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. BBC Play of the Month Season 10 Episode 10 - The Shadow of a Gunman
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S10:E10

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. BBC Play of the Month Season 14 Episode 7 - The Kitchen
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S14:E7

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. BBC Play of the Month Season 16 Episode 4 - Infidelities
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S16:E4

    An exploration of love, infidelity, and social class through the story of Silvia and her lover Arlequin, who are separated and tempted by a prince and a lady of the court, respectively.

    Director:Michael Darlow
    Writer:Pierre de Marivaux

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  8. BBC Play of the Month Season 4 Episode 2 - The Male Animal
    3.0/10(12 votes)

    S4:E2

    The Midwestern University trustees have forced three teachers out for being suspected communists. Trustee Ed Keller has also threatened mild-mannered English professor Tommy Turner, because he plans to read a controversial piece of prose in class. Tommy is upset that his wife Ellen also suggested he not read the passage. Meanwhile, Ellen's old boyfriend, football player Joe Ferguson, comes to visit for the Homecoming.

    Director:Alan Bridges
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. BBC Play of the Month Season 8 Episode 7 - A Room with a View
    4.1/10(12 votes)

    S8:E7

    When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and son George step in to remedy the situation. Meeting the Emersons could change Lucy's life forever but, once back in England, how will her experiences in Tuscany affect her marriage plans?

    Director:Donald McWhinnie
    Writer:Pauline Macaulay

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  10. BBC Play of the Month Season 13 Episode 3 - Flint
    4.9/10(13 votes)

    S13:E3

    Ossian Flint is an elderly Anglican vicar whose way of life has long been the cause of scandal. He has had as little respect for the seventh commandment during nearly half a century of married life as he has had faith since his ordination. The winter of his life is transformed by his encounter with Dixie, a simple young Irish hirl, unmarried and pregnant, late of Holloway prison.

    Director:Peter Wood
    Writer:David Mercer

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  11. BBC Play of the Month Season 13 Episode 2 - Waste
    5.6/10(13 votes)

    S13:E2

    Centres around ambitious independent politician Henry Trebell, his plans for a bill to disestablish the Church of England, and his fall from grace and suicide after his affair with a married woman who dies following a botched abortion.

    Director:Don Taylor
    Writer:Harley Granville-Barker

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  12. BBC Play of the Month Season 3 Episode 10 - Man and Superman
    6.3/10(10 votes)

    S3:E10

    John Tanner is determined not to lose his independence - which comes under threat when he falls in love with an ardent feminist.

    Director:James MacTaggart
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. BBC Play of the Month Season 6 Episode 1 - Macbeth
    6.4/10(19 votes)

    S6:E1

    Scotland, 11th century. Driven by the twisted prophecy of three witches and the ruthless ambition of his wife, warlord Macbeth, bold and brave, but also weak and hesitant, betrays his good king and his brothers in arms and sinks into the bloody mud of a path with no return, sown with crime and suspicion.

    Director:John Gorrie
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. BBC Play of the Month Season 3 Episode 9 - The Old Ladies
    6.5/10(10 votes)

    S3:E9

    A trio of middle-aged women set up housekeeping together.

    Director:William Slater
    Writer:Rodney Ackland

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  15. 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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  16. BBC Play of the Month Season 6 Episode 9 - Platonov
    6.6/10(38 votes)

    S6:E9

    A brilliant fellow, Platonov, and he might be a good husband, too — if only women would let him.

    Director:Christopher Morahan
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. BBC Play of the Month Season 7 Episode 5 - Summer and Smoke
    6.7/10(14 votes)

    S7:E5

    A plain, repressed spinster falls for a dashing young medical student, but he prefers the wilder life, until it's too late.

    Director:Alvin Rakoff
    Writer:Tennessee Williams

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  18. BBC Play of the Month Season 7 Episode 6 - Stephen D
    6.7/10(10 votes)

    S7:E6

    Stephen Dedalus comes of age in a Dublin changing radically as the 20th century nears.

    Director:Donald McWhinnie
    Writer:Hugh Leonard

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  19. BBC Play of the Month Season 11 Episode 2 - The Little Minister
    6.7/10(71 votes)

    S11:E2

    In rural 1840s Scotland, Gavin Dishart arrives to become the new 'little minister' of Thrums's Auld Licht church. He meets a mysterious young gypsy girl in the dens and to his horror Babbie draws him into her escape from the soldiers after she incites a Luddite riot. But unknown to Gavin, Babbie is more than she seems, and they must overcome her secret, the villagers' fears of her, and--worst of all--Gavin's devotion to his mother's sensibilities, before they can openly declare their love.

    Director:Cedric Messina
    Writer:J.M. Barrie

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  20. BBC Play of the Month Season 12 Episode 7 - Heartbreak House
    6.7/10(56 votes)

    S12:E7

    On the eve of World War I, Ellie Dunn, her father, and her fiancé are invited to one of Hesione Hushabye's infamous dinner parties. Unfortunately, her fiancé is a scoundrel, her father's a bumbling prig, and she's actually in love with Hector, Hesione's husband. This bold mix of farce and tragedy lampoons British society as it blithely sinks towards disaster.

    Director:Cedric Messina
    Writer:George Bernard Shaw

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  21. BBC Play of the Month Season 3 Episode 1 - Girls in Uniform
    6.8/10(16 votes)

    S3:E1

    No description available

    Director:Waris Hussein
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. BBC Play of the Month Season 6 Episode 4 - Five Finger Exercise
    6.8/10(11 votes)

    S6:E4

    A long-married couple are at war with each other and with their teenage son and daughter. The presence of a handsome young tutor complicates and sensitizes the savage domestic tensions which arise as the secret emotions of members of the family are shockingly revealed.

    Director:John Gorrie
    Writer:Peter Shaffer

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  23. BBC Play of the Month Season 10 Episode 5 - The Apple Cart
    6.8/10(62 votes)

    S10:E5

    King Magnus's position as monarch is in danger – can he 'upset the apple cart' and preserve his throne?

    Director:Cedric Messina
    Writer:George Bernard Shaw

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  24. BBC Play of the Month Season 11 Episode 7 - The Chester Mystery Cycle
    6.8/10(14 votes)

    S11:E7

    A quartet of mystery plays originally based in Chester.

    Director:Piers Haggard
    Writer:Maurice Hussey

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  25. BBC Play of the Month Season 11 Episode 8 - French Without Tears
    6.8/10(26 votes)

    S11:E8

    The romantic and comic adventures of a quintet of young Englishmen in France, on a course to learn the language.

    Director:John Gorrie
    Writer:Anatole de Grunwald

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Worst Episodes Summary

"She Stoops to Conquer" is the worst rated episode of "BBC Play of the Month". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 7/23/1972. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Trelawny of the "Wells"".