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- The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony.
- A verse play about the conflict between Queen Elizabeth I of England and her arch-enemy, Mary, Queen of Scots.
- Trial by Jury, the complete operetta by Gilbert and Sullivan, was aired within An Evening with Gilbert and Sullivan (1962), then released separately on home media. For complete information, please see the link above. Note: This is only a "shell" episode for search.
- Pip, a poor orphan, meets a convict in a graveyard and is later taken to Satis House, where he meets the sinister Miss Havisham and also her ward Estella.
- Olga, Masha, and Irina Prozoroff lead lonely and purposeless lives following the death of their father who has commanded the local army post. Olga attempts to find satisfaction in teaching but secretly longs for a home and family. Masha, unhappy with her marriage to a timid schoolmaster, falls hopelessly in love with a married colonel. Irina works in the local telegraph office but longs for gaiety. Their sense of futility is increased by their brother's marriage to Natasha, a coarse peasant girl. She gradually encroaches on the family home until even the private refuge of the sisters is destroyed. They dream of starting a new life in Moscow but are saddled with the practicalities of their quiet existence. Despite their past failures, they resolve to seek some purpose and hope when the army post is withdrawn from the town.
- Nora Helmer has years earlier committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband Torvald. Now she is being blackmailed lives in fear of her husband's finding out and of the shame such a revelation would bring to his career. But when the truth comes out, Nora is shocked to learn where she really stands in her husband's esteem.
- Christopher Fry's verse drama of four prisoners in an imaginary war.
- When an old friend turns up unexpectedly, two young lovers are delighted. But he soon begins to exercise a sinister influence.
- Macbeth and his wife murder King Duncan to seize the throne of Scotland.
- The down-at-heel lodger in a seaside boarding house is menaced by two mysterious strangers, who eventually take him away.
- Two short plays by Harold Pinter. In "The Collection", a woman wonders if her husband is homosexual. In "A Slight Ache", an elderly couple take in an itinerant match-seller.