BBC Play of the Month: Season 7
Season 7 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 6.
- 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 7 Progress Shield
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Sep 26, 1971
Mistaken identity, unrequited love, and the supernatural are combined in Shakespeare's classic set in the woods of Greece on a moonlit night.
Rasputin
Oct 24, 1971 · 115 min
In early 20th century Russia, a peasant monk exerts great influence upon the superstitious wife of the Russian Tsar.
Tartuffe
Nov 28, 1971
Orgon is a man of property duped by the false piety of the penniless Tartuffe. Orgon takes him into his house, believing him a paragon of virtue. Orgon orders his daughter to rejec
The Cherry Orchard
Dec 19, 1971
Madamr Ranevskaya is a spoiled, aging aristocrat who returns from Paris to face the loss of her magnificent cherry orchard estate after a default on the mortgage. In denial, she co
Summer and Smoke
Jan 23, 1972
A plain, repressed spinster falls for a dashing young medical student, but he prefers the wilder life, until it's too late.
Stephen D
Feb 20, 1972
Stephen Dedalus comes of age in a Dublin changing radically as the 20th century nears.
The Merchant of Venice
Apr 16, 1972
Antonio's friend Bassanio is in love and needs money to go courting. Using Antonio as his collateral, he borrows money from Shylock. But when the debt comes due, Shylock demands re
Lady Windermere's Fan
May 14, 1972
Lady Windermere suspects that her husband is having an affair with another woman; she confronts him with it.
Trelawny of the "Wells"
Aug 13, 1972
A theatrical troupe from the west end of London loses its leading lady when she elopes with a wealthy young man from the other side of town.