BBC Play of the Month: Season 11
Season 11 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of BBC Play of the Month Season 10.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 11 Progress Shield
Chips with Everything
Sep 28, 1975
Pip is a socialist who has seen the squalor of the East End, typified by greasy cafés offering 'chips with everything'. Pip is also the only privately-educated recruit in a draft o
The Little Minister
Nov 2, 1975 · 102 min
In rural 1840s Scotland, Gavin Dishart arrives to become the new 'little minister' of Thrums's Auld Licht church. He meets a mysterious young gypsy girl in the dens and to his horr
Love's Labour's Lost
Dec 14, 1975 · 120 min
A scholarly king and his three companions swear off the society of women for three years, only to have a diplomatic visit from a French princess and her three ladies-in-waiting thw
When We Are Married
Dec 29, 1975 · 75 min
At the turn of the 20th century, a set of long-married couples discover that due to a bureaucratic quirk they have never actually been married.
Trilby
Jan 24, 1976
Trilby, a young Irish girl in Paris, falls under the influence of the sinister hypnotist Svengali.
The Chester Mystery Cycle
Apr 18, 1976 · 90 min
A quartet of mystery plays originally based in Chester.
French Without Tears
May 16, 1976 · 94 min
The romantic and comic adventures of a quintet of young Englishmen in France, on a course to learn the language.