

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.

Charles Strickland, Gayev, Antonio, Adrian Blenderbland, Sir Harcourt Courtly, Mr. Beebe, Lord Augustus, Richard Greatham, Field-Marshall Allenby

Arthur Winslow, Macbeth, Cyrano de Bergerac, Maj. Pollock / John Malcolm, Jack Tanner, Councillor Albert Parker

Préfet de Police, Ronald Utterword, Soliony, Monty Cave, Hotel Manager, George Farrant

Vicount Goring, Joseph Surface, Captain Jack Absolute, Lord Berowne, George, Duke of Bristol, Basil Hallward

Charles II, Capt. Shotover, Lord Burleigh, Chorus, The Inquisitor, Lord Henry 'Harry' Wotton
Miss Lavish, Miss Prism, Mrs. Higgins, Mrs. Telfer, The Dowager Empress, Lavinia Penniman

Maudie, Miss Ronberry, Aunt, Lady Capulet, Mrs. Sorby

God, Mr. Posket, The Devil, Tartuffe, Lear

Mrs. Alving, Eloise, Judith Bliss, Sheila, Madame Ranyevskaya

Gregers Werle, Sir Isaac Newton, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, Orestes' Tutor, Lord Darlington

Prince of Wales, Trigorin, Grigory Rasputin, Oberon, Mark Antony

Sir Fretful Plagiary, Sir Robert Morton, General Charles 'Chinese' Gordon, Svengali, Father

Margery Pinchwife, Babbie, Orinthia, Beatrice-Joanna

Andrey, Alfred Allmers, Edmund Kean, Astrov

Sergei Voinitsev, Cajetan, Archbishop of Rheims, Dyadin

Dirk Stroeve, Toozenbach, Ronny Heaslop, Lord Windermere

Captain Dancy, DSO, Charles Surface, Flt. Lieutenant Stoker, Lysander

The Sea Captain, Zaryezov, Le Bret

Hester, Fraulein von Bernburg, Adela Quested, Mary Stuart

Simon Bliss, Captain Plume, Ross / T.E. Lawrence, George Tesman

Hedda Gabler, Masha, Lady Macbeth, Joan of Arc

Rev. Gavin Dishart, Arthur Gower, Candide, Thomas Aimwell

Marcus Brutus, Voltaire, Sancho Panza, Shylock

Lord Portmandeau, Sir Andrew Melvil, Village Priest

Amanda, Maria Helliwell, Victoria, Mrs. Malaprop

Brother Martin Ladvenu, Edgar, Mercutio, Ariel

Ruth Wilcox, Fraulein von Kesten, Miss Trafalgar Gower, Mrs. Whitefield
Aunt Juley, Martha, Housekeeper

Julius Caesar, Pierre Cauchon, Bishop of Beauvais, George Fox, Don Adriano de Armando

Edward Noble, Comte de Guiche, O'Reilly

Lt. Cmdr. Bill Rogers, Gregory, Boris Trigorin, Theseus

Herbert Soppitt, Mazzini Dunn, Koolyghin, Rev. Canon Chasuble

British Corporal, Darius, Tench, Steward

Gilbert Wedgecroft, Sir Luke Strett, Filips, Ross

Prime Minister Joe Proteus, Tsar Nicholas II, Julius Sagamore, Earl of Rintoul

Valère, Young Baron, Capt. Halliwell, Freddy Eynsford-Hill

Andrei, Koepfer, Burglar, Gai

Boyet, Wilder, Cool, Robin Starveling

Titania, Electra, Catherine Sloper, Olga

Anya Hvostov, Beatie Tomlinson, Rose

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