BBC2 Play of the Week
An anthology of plays and novels adapted into feature length TV movies, broadcast on BBC2 from September 1977 to April 1979.
- Created By
Sarah Pia Anderson
- First Aired on
Sep 21, 1977
- Popularity: 23.5124
- 1 votes
- Networks
- (GB)
- Production
BBC (GB)
- Status: Ended
Show Ended
2 seaons till May 16, 1979
Last episode: In England's Green and Pleasant Land
Seasons & episodes
Total 2 seasons, 38 episodes
Season 1
Aired
Episode 1Professional Foul85 min
Professor Anderson attends a conference in Prague, but what he really wants to do is attend a football match. Then he meets a former student unexpectedly, and must consider putting his philosophical ideas into practice.
Episode 2Exiles90 min
In the 1920s, Michael Arlen was one of the most popular and acclaimed writers in the world, but he mysteriously stopped writing altogether. His son tries to work out why.
Episode 3Abie's Will min
A once-celebrated writer who has written nothing since the war, lies paralysed and dying as his family gathers at the family home.
Episode 4The Sinking of HMS Victoria min
A dramatisation of events surrounding the loss of the turret ship HMS Victoria during fleet exercises off Tripoli on 22 June 1893.
Episode 5True Patriot60 min
A biopic of German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, whose opposition to Adolf Hitler led to his involvement in an assassination plot.
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