Se |
Ep |
Title |
Author |
Producer/ Director |
Performers |
UK Transmission date |
1 |
1 |
Lady Windermere's Fan[1] |
Oscar Wilde |
Louis Marks (p); Tony Smith (d) |
Helena Little, Tim Woodward, Stephanie Turner, Kenneth Cranham, James Saxon, Geoff Morrell |
15 September 1985 |
1 |
2 |
The Father |
August Strindberg |
Louis Marks (p); Kenneth Ives (d) |
Colin Blakely, Dorothy Tutin, Irene Handl, Edward Fox, Robert Lang |
22 September 1985 |
1 |
3 |
Absent Friends |
Alan Ayckbourn |
Shaun Sutton (p); Michael Simpson (d) |
Tom Courtenay, Julia McKenzie, Dinsdale Landen, Hywel Bennett, Maureen Lipman |
29 September 1985 |
1 |
4 |
Thunder Rock |
Robert Ardrey |
Louis Marks (p); Mike Vardy (d) |
Charles Dance, Anna Massey, Paul Copley, Kathleen Byron, David de Keyser, Garrick Hagon, Graham Crowden, Burnell Tucker |
6 October 1985 |
1 |
5 |
Playboy of the West Indies |
J. M. Synge (play The Playboy of the Western World); Mustapha Matura (adaptation) |
Alan Shallcross (p); Nicolas Kent (d) |
Joan Ann Maynard, Rudolph Walker, Jim Findley, Ram John Holder, Stefan Kalipha, Frank Singuineau |
13 October 1985 |
1 |
6 |
Trelawny of the 'Wells' |
Arthur Wing Pinero |
Louis Marks & Cedric Messina (p); Tom Kingdom (d) |
Michael Hordern, Nicholas Jones, Avril Angers, Samantha Bond, Patricia Brake, Philip Locke, Vivian Pickles, Linda Polan, Arthur Cox |
20 October 1985 |
1 |
7 |
Molière |
Mikhail Bulgakov (play); Dusty Hughes (adaptation)[2] |
Cedric Messina (p); Bill Alexander (d) |
Antony Sher, David Bradley, Penelope Beaumont, Sylvia Coleridge, David Troughton, Christopher Bowen |
27 October 1985 |
1 |
8 |
Tartuffe |
Molière (play) Christopher Hampton (translation) |
Cedric Messina (p); Bill Alexander (d) |
Antony Sher, Nigel Hawthorne, Alison Steadman, Sylvia Coleridge, David Bradley, Ian Talbot, Stephanie Fayerman |
3 November 1985[3] |
2 |
1 |
The Devil's Disciple[4][5] |
George Bernard Shaw |
Shaun Sutton (p); David Jones (d) |
Mike Gwilym, Ian Richardson, Elizabeth Spriggs, Patrick Stewart, Patrick Newell, John Cater, Patrick Godfrey, Larry Lamb, Benjamin Whitrow |
17 May 1987 |
2 |
2 |
What the Butler Saw |
Joe Orton |
Shaun Sutton (p); Barry Davis (d) |
Dinsdale Landen, Tessa Peake-Jones, Timothy West, Prunella Scales |
24 May 1987 |
2 |
3 |
Miss Julie |
August Strindberg |
Shaun Sutton (p); Michael Simpson (d) |
Janet McTeer, Patrick Malahide |
31 May 1987 |
2 |
4 |
Make and Break |
Michael Frayn |
Shaun Sutton (p); Michael Darlow |
Robert Hardy, Judi Dench, David Graham, Martin Jarvis, Wolf Kahler, Arnold Lee |
7 June 1987 |
2 |
5 |
Ghosts[6][7] |
Henrik Ibsen |
Louis Marks (p); Elijah Moshinsky (d) |
Judi Dench, Kenneth Branagh, Michael Gambon, Freddie Jones, Natasha Richardson |
14 June 1987 |
2 |
6 |
The Birthday Party |
Harold Pinter |
Rosemary Hill (p); Kenneth Ives (d) |
Joan Plowright, Harold Pinter, Kenneth Cranham, Colin Blakely, Julie Walters, Robert Lang |
21 June 1987 |
3 |
1 |
The Miser |
Molière |
Shaun Sutton (p); Michael Simpson (d) |
Nigel Hawthorne, Jim Broadbent, Kate Buffery, Janet Suzman, Christopher Benjamin, Ron Cook, John Gill, Simon Sutton, Cyril Shaps |
1 April 1988 |
3 |
2 |
The Master Builder[7] |
Henrik Ibsen |
Shaun Sutton (p); Michael Darlow (d) |
Leo McKern, Jane Lapotaire, Sebastian Shaw, Miranda Richardson, Simon Rouse |
15 May 1988 |
3 |
3 |
The Importance of Being Earnest[1][8] |
Oscar Wilde |
Shaun Sutton (p); Stuart Burge (d) |
Paul McGann, Rupert Frazer, Amanda Redman, Natalie Ogle, Gemma Jones, Alec McCowen, Joan Plowright, John Woodnutt, Peter Copley |
29 May 1988[9] |
3 |
4 |
The Rivals |
Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
Shaun Sutton (p); Elijah Moshinsky (d) |
Donald Sinden, Sheila Hancock, Michael Maloney; Patrick Ryecart, Amanda Redman, Ronald Pickup, Suzanne Burden |
5 June 1988 |
3 |
5 |
Strife |
John Galsworthy |
Shaun Sutton (p); Michael Darlow (d) |
Peter Vaughan, Timothy West, Kate Buffery, Anna Calder-Marshall, Tenniel Evans, Andrew Burt, Trevor Cooper Bernard Archard, John Nettleton, John Woodnutt, Patsy Smart |
12 June 1988 |
4 |
1 |
Arms and the Man[5] |
George Bernard Shaw |
Shaun Sutton (p); James Cellan Jones (d) |
Helena Bonham Carter, Kika Markham, Pip Torrens, Dinsdale Landen, Patsy Kensit, Nicolas Chagrin |
16 April 1989 |
4 |
2 |
The Contractor |
David Storey |
Shaun Sutton (p); Barry Davis (d) |
Timothy West, Kenneth Cranham, Jimmy Jewel, Roger Lloyd-Pack, Gawn Grainger |
23 April 1989 |
4 |
3 |
The Winslow Boy[10] |
Terence Rattigan |
Shaun Sutton (p); Michael Darlow (d) |
Rosemary Leach, Gordon Jackson, Gwen Watford, Emma Thompson, Ian Richardson, David Troughton |
30 April 1989 |
4 |
4 |
Knuckle |
David Hare |
Tim Ironside-Wood (p); Colin Ludlowe (p); Paul Marcus (p); Moira Armstrong (d) |
Tim Roth, Emma Thompson, Bernard Hepton, Peter Hawkins, James Appleby, John Joyce |
7 May 1989 |
4 |
5 |
Metamorphosis[11] |
Franz Kafka (short story); Steven Berkoff (adaptation) |
Martyn Auty (p); Jim Goddard (d) |
Tim Roth, Steven Berkoff, Linda Marlowe, Saskia Reeves, Gary Olsen |
21 May 1989[12] |
4 |
6 |
Benefactors |
Michael Frayn |
No producer credited; Barry Davis (d) |
Barbara Flynn, Michael Kitchen, Alan Rickman, Harriet Walter, Howard Cooke |
28 May 1989 |
5 |
1 |
Othello[13] |
William Shakespeare |
Greg Smith (p); Trevor Nunn (d) |
Willard White, Ian McKellen, Imogen Stubbs, Zoë Wanamaker, Sean Baker, Michael Grandage, Clive Swift |
23 June 1990 |
5 |
2 |
Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death |
Edward Bond |
Tim Ironside-Wood (p); Don Taylor (d) |
David Suchet, Kenneth Haigh, Peter Jeffrey, Brenda Bruce |
30 June 1990 |
5 |
3[14] |
Pentecost |
Stewart Parker (writer); Lesley Bruce (adaptation) |
No producer credited; Nicholas Kent (d) |
Dearbhla Molloy, Adrian Dunbar, Barbara Adair, Michelle Fairley, Sam Dale |
14 July 1990 |
5 |
4 |
Iphigenia at Aulis |
Euripides |
Louis Marks (p); Don Taylor |
Roy Marsden, Fiona Shaw, Imogen Boorman, Eric Allan, Tim Woodward, Jason Durr, Tessa Peake-Jones |
21 July 1990 |