Play of the Month is a BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays which were 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; the producer most associated with the Play of the Month was Cedric Messina.
Some of the 121 episodes are missing from the archives, having been junked in the 1960s and 1970s. Unless stated otherwise, the indication that the play is "lost" is taken from the lostshows.com website page as of 25 May 2013.
| Title | Air Date | Duration | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | Episode 1 | Luther | 1965-10-19 | 90 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 2 | A Passage to India | 1965-11-16 | 90 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 3 | The Joel Brand Story | 1965-12-14 | 90 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 4 | Gordon of Khartoum | 1966-01-18 | 90 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 5 | Where Angels Fear to Tread | 1966-02-15 | 90 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 6 | Lee Oswald Assassin | 1966-03-15 | 90 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 7 | Make Me an Offer | 1966-04-12 | 90 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 8 | Death of a Salesman | 1966-05-24 | 90 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 9 | The Devil's Eggshell | 1966-06-28 | 90 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 1 | Defection! The Case of Colonel Petrov | 1966-09-27 | 90 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 2 | Days to Come | 1966-10-25 | 90 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 3 | Corridors of Power | 1966-11-22 | 90 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 4 | The Making of Jericho | 1966-12-20 | 90 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 5 | The Cabinet Papers | 1967-03-14 | 90 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 1 | Girls in Uniform | 1967-10-15 | 90 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 2 | The Moon and Sixpence | 1967-11-12 | 90 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 3 | Romeo and Juliet | 1967-12-03 | 90 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 4 | The Parachute | 1968-01-21 | 90 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 5 | Cyrano de Bergerac | 1968-02-11 | 90 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 6 | Ghosts | 1968-03-17 | 90 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 7 | The Corn Is Green | 1968-04-14 | 90 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 8 | The Tempest | 1968-05-12 | 90 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 9 | The Old Ladies | 1968-06-09 | 90 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 10 | Man and Superman | 1968-07-07 | 90 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 11 | Hay Fever | 1968-08-04 | 90 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 1 | Saint Joan | 1968-09-01 | 90 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 2 | The Male Animal | 1968-10-13 | 90 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 3 | The Seagull | 1968-11-17 | 90 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 4 | Waters of the Moon | 1968-12-24 | 90 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 5 | Mary, Queen of Scots | 1969-01-12 | 90 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 6 | Maigret at Bay | 1969-02-09 | 90 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 7 | Relatively Speaking | 1969-03-02 | 90 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 8 | Julius Caesar | 1969-04-13 | 90 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 9 | An Ideal Husband | 1969-05-11 | 90 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 1 | The Heiress | 1969-10-12 | 90 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 2 | Charley's Aunt | 1969-11-23 | 90 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 3 | The Marquise | 1969-12-14 | 90 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 4 | The Three Sisters | 1970-01-18 | 90 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 5 | In Good King Charles's Golden Days | 1970-02-15 | 90 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 6 | Separate Tables | 1970-03-15 | 90 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 7 | Howards End | 1970-04-19 | 90 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 8 | The Rivals | 1970-05-17 | 90 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 1 | Macbeth | 1970-09-20 | 90 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 2 | Ross | 1970-10-18 | 90 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 3 | Uncle Vanya | 1970-11-08 | 90 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 4 | Five Finger Exercise | 1970-12-24 | 90 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 5 | Act of Betrayal | 1971-01-03 | 90 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 6 | Candida | 1971-02-21 | 90 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 7 | The Wild Duck | 1971-03-21 | 90 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 8 | Don Juan in Hell | 1971-04-25 | 90 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 9 | Platonov | 1971-05-23 | 90 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 1 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | 1971-09-26 | 90 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 2 | Rasputin | 1971-10-24 | 90 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 3 | Tartuffe | 1971-11-28 | 90 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 4 | The Cherry Orchard | 1971-12-19 | 90 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 5 | Summer and Smoke | 1972-01-23 | 90 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 6 | Stephen D | 1972-02-20 | 90 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 7 | The Merchant of Venice | 1972-04-16 | 90 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 8 | Lady Windermere's Fan | 1972-05-14 | 90 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 1 | The Millionairess | 1972-09-15 | 90 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 2 | Hedda Gabler | 1972-10-20 | 90 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 3 | King Oedipus | 1972-11-24 | 90 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 4 | The Magistrate | 1972-12-20 | 90 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 5 | The Adventures of Don Quixote | 1973-01-07 | 90 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 6 | Candide | 1973-02-16 | 90 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 7 | A Room with a View | 1973-04-15 | 90 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 8 | The Caucasian Chalk Circle | 1973-05-16 | 90 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 1 | The Love-Girl and the Innocent | 1973-09-16 | 90 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 2 | The Common | 1973-10-21 | 90 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 3 | The Recruiting Officer | 1973-11-18 | 90 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 4 | Pygmalion | 1973-12-16 | 90 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 5 | The Changeling | 1974-01-20 | 90 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 6 | The Importance of Being Earnest | 1974-02-17 | 90 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 7 | The Deep Blue Sea | 1974-03-17 | 90 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 8 | Mrs. Warren's Profession | 1974-04-21 | 90 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 9 | The Skin Game | 1974-05-19 | 90 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 1 | The Linden Tree | 1974-09-08 | 90 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 2 | Electra | 1974-10-24 | 90 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 3 | The Wood Demon | 1974-11-17 | 90 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 4 | Robinson Crusoe | 1974-11-27 | 90 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 5 | The Apple Cart | 1975-01-19 | 90 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 6 | The School for Scandal | 1975-02-16 | 90 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 7 | King Lear | 1975-03-23 | 90 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 8 | Strife | 1975-05-18 | 90 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 1 | Chips with Everything | 1975-09-28 | 90 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 2 | The Little Minister | 1975-11-02 | 90 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 3 | Love's Labour's Lost | 1975-12-14 | 90 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 4 | When We Are Married | 1975-12-29 | 90 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 5 | Trilby | 1976-01-25 | 90 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 6 | Loyalties | 1976-02-29 | 90 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 7 | Chester Mystery Cycle | 1976-04-18 | 90 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 8 | French Without Tears | 1976-05-16 | 90 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 1 | The Picture of Dorian Gray | 1976-09-19 | 90 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 2 | London Assurance | 1976-10-10 | 90 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 3 | Look Back in Anger | 1976-11-21 | 90 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 4 | The Winslow Boy | 1977-01-16 | 90 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 5 | The Country Wife | 1977-02-13 | 90 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 6 | The Ambassadors | 1977-03-13 | 90 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 7 | Heartbreak House | 1977-05-19 | 90 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 1 | You Never Can Tell | 1977-10-30 | 90 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 2 | Waste | 1977-12-04 | 90 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 3 | Flint | 1978-01-15 | 90 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 4 | The Seagull | 1978-02-05 | 90 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 5 | The Sea | 1978-03-05 | 90 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 6 | The Beaux' Stratagem | 1978-04-02 | 90 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 7 | Danton's Death | 1978-04-23 | 90 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 1 | Kean | 1978-11-26 | 90 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 2 | Marya | 1979-01-14 | 90 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 3 | The Voysey Inheritance | 1979-02-04 | 90 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 4 | Hello and Goodbye | 1979-03-04 | 90 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 5 | The Wings of the Dove | 1979-04-08 | 90 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 6 | Design for Living | 1979-05-06 | 90 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 1 | I Have Been Here Before | 1982-05-24 | 90 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 2 | On Approval | 1982-06-21 | 90 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 3 | Little Eyolf | 1982-07-19 | 90 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 4 | The Critic | 1982-08-23 | 90 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 5 | The White Guard | 1982-09-20 | 90 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 1 | Dangerous Corner | 1983-05-22 | 90 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 2 | The Gay Lord Quex | 1983-06-13 | 90 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 3 | Infidelities | 1983-09-12 | 90 min |
| Production | Cedric Messina | Producer |
