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 (7)
1. Kean
Aired 26 November 1978 • 90 min
The great actor Edmund Kean is involved in a variety of romantic and other entanglements and wonders where acting ends and real life begins.
2. Marya
Aired 14 January 1979 • 120 min
A portrait of the sordid underbelly of Soviet society during the Russian Civil War.
3. The Voysey Inheritance
Aired 4 February 1979 • 102 min
Edward Voysey's highly principled world upturns when he discovers the family business he's inheriting has been defrauding its clients for years because his father has been illegally speculating with their money. To compound matters, he quickly discovers his large, scandal-fearing family knew of the crime but allowed it to continue rather than face the shame of public disclosure.
4. Hello and Goodbye
Aired 4 March 1979 • 90 min
Siblings Johnnie and Hester delay the responsibility of becoming adults to the point they lose the purpose of existence.
5. The Wings of the Dove
Aired 8 April 1979 • 81 min
Kate is secretly betrothed to a struggling journalist, Merton Densher. But she knows her Aunt Maude will never approve of the match, since Kate's deceased mother has lost all her money in a marriage to a degenerate opium addict. When Kate meets a terminally ill American heiress named Millie traveling through Europe, she comes up with a conniving plan to have both love and wealth.
6. Design for Living
Aired 5 June 1979 • 102 min
A woman cannot decide between two men who love her, and the trio agree to try living together in a platonic friendly relationship.
7. The Kitchen
Aired 1 July 1979