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 (11)
1. Girls in Uniform
Aired 15 October 1967
2. The Moon and Sixpence
Aired 12 November 1967
Loosely inspired from Gauguin's life, Charles Strickland is a middle-aged stockbroker who abandons his middle-classed life, his family, his duties to start painting, what he has always wanted to do. He is from now on a awful human being, wholly devoted to his ideal: beauty.
3. Romeo and Juliet
Aired 3 December 1967 • 125 min
Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet fall in love against the wishes of their feuding families. Driven by their passion, the young lovers defy their destiny and elope, only to suffer the ultimate tragedy.
4. The Parachute
10.0Aired 21 January 1968 • 77 min
As the Nazis grow ever more powerful, Werner Roger grows up in an aristocratic household, hating his domineering father and making enemies in high places.
5. Cyrano de Bergerac
Aired 11 February 1968
Long-nosed Cyrano de Bergerac helps an army officer woo Roxanne, the woman he loves.
6. Ghosts
Aired 17 March 1968
A young student idealizes the lives of the inhabitants of a stylish Stockholm apartment building, only to find that it a nest of betrayal and sickness.
7. The Corn Is Green
Aired 14 April 1968 • 120 min
A schoolteacher mentors a talented young miner and seeks to get him into a university.
8. The Tempest
Aired 12 May 1968
The magician Prospero, once Duke of Milan, now rules a small, enchanted island – but a storm brings visitors from the past.
9. The Old Ladies
Aired 9 June 1968
A trio of middle-aged women set up housekeeping together.
10. Man and Superman
Aired 7 July 1968
John Tanner is determined not to lose his independence - which comes under threat when he falls in love with an ardent feminist.
11. Hay Fever
Aired 4 August 1968 • 90 min
Weekend guests of the Bliss family finds their hosts distinctly eccentric.