About this season
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 was transmitted from October 1965 to September 1983.
Episodes (8)
1. Chips with Everything
Aired 28 September 1975
Pip is a socialist who has seen the squalor of the East End, typified by greasy cafés offering 'chips with everything'. Pip is also the only privately-educated recruit in a draft of other National Service recruits. He's tried to buck the system by not applying for an officer's commission.
2. The Little Minister
Aired 2 November 1975 • 102 min
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.
3. Love's Labour's Lost
Aired 14 December 1975 • 120 min
A scholarly king and his three companions swear off the society of women for three years, only to have a diplomatic visit from a French princess and her three ladies-in-waiting thwart their intentions.
4. When We Are Married
Aired 29 December 1975 • 75 min
At the turn of the 20th century, a set of long-married couples discover that due to a bureaucratic quirk they have never actually been married.
5. Trilby
Aired 24 January 1976
Trilby, a young Irish girl in Paris, falls under the influence of the sinister hypnotist Svengali.
6. Loyalties
Aired 28 February 1976
7. The Chester Mystery Cycle
Aired 18 April 1976 • 90 min
A quartet of mystery plays originally based in Chester.
8. French Without Tears
Aired 16 May 1976 • 94 min
The romantic and comic adventures of a quintet of young Englishmen in France, on a course to learn the language.