| 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 |