BBC Play of the Month: Season 14
Season 14 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 13.
- 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 14 Progress Shield
Kean
Nov 26, 1978 · 90 min
The great actor Edmund Kean is involved in a variety of romantic and other entanglements and wonders where acting ends and real life begins.
Marya
Jan 14, 1979 · 120 min
A portrait of the sordid underbelly of Soviet society during the Russian Civil War.
The Voysey Inheritance
Feb 4, 1979 · 102 min
Edward Voysey's highly principled world upturns when he discovers the family business he's inheriting has been defrauding its clients for years because his father has been illegall
Hello and Goodbye
Mar 4, 1979 · 90 min
Siblings Johnnie and Hester delay the responsibility of becoming adults to the point they lose the purpose of existence.
The Wings of the Dove
Apr 8, 1979 · 81 min
Kate is secretly betrothed to a struggling journalist, Merton Densher. But she knows her Aunt Maude will never approve of the match, since Kate's deceased mother has lost all her m
Design for Living
Jun 5, 1979 · 102 min
A woman cannot decide between two men who love her, and the trio agree to try living together in a platonic friendly relationship.