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 (10)
1. The Millionairess
Aired 25 September 1972 • 100 min
An Indian doctor meets a willful and arrogant heiress stuck in a dull marriage in order to satisfy the conditions of her father's will.
2. Hedda Gabler
Aired 20 October 1972
Hedda Gabler is a beautiful woman married to the solid and respectable academic George Tesman. Then an old flame, the dreamer Eilert Lovborg, turns up on the scene with tragic results.
3. King Oedipus
Aired 24 November 1972
Resolving the riddle of the Sphinx makes Oedipus the king of Thebes, but he also resolves another mystery — and it destroys him.
4. The Magistrate
Aired 20 December 1972
A widow weds a magistrate and makes her 19-year-old son act as a boy.
5. The Adventures of Don Quixote
Aired 7 January 1973 • 100 min
A self-proclaimed 'knight' and his hapless squire travel the Spanish countryside, attacking 'giants' that are really windmills in his attempt to win the love of the fair Dulcinea.
6. Candide
Aired 16 February 1973
Candide falls in love with the beautiful but materialistic Cunegonde. Her barron father doesn't approve of the affair so Candide wanders, meeting all the misfortunes along the way.
7. A Room with a View
Aired 15 April 1973
When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and son George step in to remedy the situation. Meeting the Emersons could change Lucy's life forever but, once back in England, how will her experiences in Tuscany affect her marriage plans?
8. The Caucasian Chalk Circle
Aired 16 May 1973
Grusha sacrifices her happiness and dignity for the sake of an abandoned child she takes as her own.
9. The Duchess of Malfi
Aired 18 July 1973
10. Peer Gynt
Aired 22 August 1973