BBC Play of the Month: Season 4
Season 4 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 3.
- 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 4 Progress Shield
St. Joan
Sep 1, 1968
In 15th century France, a teenage peasant leads the army to victories against the English after claiming she has heard the voices of saints.
The Male Animal
Oct 13, 1968
The Midwestern University trustees have forced three teachers out for being suspected communists. Trustee Ed Keller has also threatened mild-mannered English professor Tommy Turner
The Seagull
Nov 17, 1968
Aging actress Arkidana pays summer visits to her brother Sorin and son Konstantin on a country estate. On one occasion, she brings with her Trigorin, a successful novelist. Meanwhi
Waters of the Moon
Dec 24, 1968 · 90 min
Lonely people in a quiet hotel find their lives shaken up by the arrival of the glamorous, assertive Helen Lancaster.
Mary, Queen of Scots
Jan 12, 1969
Mary Stuart, named Queen of Scotland when she was only six days old, is the last Roman Catholic ruler of Scotland. She's imprisoned at 23 by her cousin Elizabeth Tudor, the English
Maigret at Bay
Feb 9, 1969 · 89 min
Maigret responds to a call from a young woman in the middle of the night, but he then finds himself accused of raping her. He is forced to clear his name, and search for what had r
Relatively Speaking
Mar 2, 1969
Ginny plots to keep her affair with the much older (and married) Philip from her regular boyfriend Greg.
An Ideal Husband
May 11, 1969 · 82 min
Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful Government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs Cheveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past