Season 1

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  6.6/10473 votes

  Romeo & Juliet

  Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 12/3/1978

  Patrick Ryecart and Rebecca Saire play the star crossed lovers in one of Shakespeare's best-loved plays.

  Director: Alvin Rakoff

  Writer: Unknown

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  7.9/10336 votes

  King Richard the Second

  Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 12/10/1978

  Derek Jacobi is King Richard II in the second of the BBC's new productions of Shakespeare.

  Director: David Giles

  Writer: Unknown

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  7.1/10370 votes

  As You Like It

  Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 12/17/1978

  Classic comedy by William Shakespeare about the travails of lovers Rosalind and Orlando, who become entangled in a beguiling game of love, lust and mistaken identity.

  Director: Basil Coleman

  Writer: Unknown

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  7.4/10266 votes

  Julius Caesar

  Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 2/11/1979

  Shakespeare's great political thriller tells the story of the conspiracy against Caesar, his assassination and the defeat of his conspirators.

  Director: Herbert Wise

  Writer: Unknown

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  7.5/10240 votes

  Measure For Measure

  Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 2/18/1979

  Shakespeare's classic comedy occasionally veers into more troublesome territory, as the characters face dark and ambiguous moral choices.

  Director: Desmond Davis

  Writer: Unknown

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  7.1/10150 votes

  The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight

  Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 2/25/1979

  Classic play by William Shakespeare starring John Stride, Timothy West, Ronald Pickup, and Claire Bloom.

  Director: Kevin Billington

  Writer: Unknown