BBC Play of the Month

Season 11

1975 · 8 episodes · 8h 1m in all

Episodes

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   1. Chips with Everything

   28 Sept 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.

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   2. The Little Minister

   2 Nov 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.

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   3. Love's Labour's Lost

   14 Dec 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.

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   4. When We Are Married

   29 Dec 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.

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   5. Trilby

   24 Jan 1976

   Trilby, a young Irish girl in Paris, falls under the influence of the sinister hypnotist Svengali.

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   6. Loyalties

   28 Feb 1976

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   7. The Chester Mystery Cycle

   18 Apr 1976 · 90 min

   A quartet of mystery plays originally based in Chester.

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   8. French Without Tears

   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.