The Best Episodes of NET Playhouse Season 5

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   #1 - Helen Hayes Remembers

   S5:E110/11/1970

   Helen Hayes recreates some of her most famous stage roles, such as Mary Stuart in "Mary of Scotland", Queen Victoria in "Victoria Regina", Nora Melody in "A Touch of the Poet" and Grandma in "The American Dream".

   Director:Unknown

   Writer:Unknown

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   #2 - George Eliot

   S5:E234/22/1971

   George Eliot whose Victorian novels of social comment include "Silas Mar-ner" and "The Mill on the Floss." Is the subject of this drama, which focuses on the years of frustration in her late 20s and early 30s. Turning point in her life: literary critic George Henry Lewes becomes her common-law husband and persuades her to write fiction.

   Director:Don Taylor

   Writer:Don Taylor

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   Director:Don Taylor

   Writer:Don Taylor
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   #3 - Ludwig Van Beethoven

   S5:E244/29/1971

   Ludwig Van Beethoven was considered an eccentric undisciplined musician in his youth. This drama centers on his struggle for recognition between the ages of 22 and 35,. the period when he began a romance that his career destroyed; came to terms with his loneliness and advancing deafness; and, finally won acclaim as a genius

   Director:Mark Cullingham

   Writer:Ian Curteis

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   Director:Mark Cullingham

   Writer:Ian Curteis
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   #4 - Julius Caesar

   S5:E305/17/1971

   William Shakespeare's timeless tragedy about political treachery and assassination is presented as part of the "Biography" series,

   Director:Alan Bridges

   Writer:William Shakespeare

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   Director:Alan Bridges

   Writer:William Shakespeare