BBC Play of the Month: Season 9
Season 9 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 8.
- 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 9 Progress Shield
The Love Girl and the Innocent
Sep 16, 1973 · 127 min
Nemov is an honest man serving a term of 10 years for violations of Article 58. Nemov falls in love with Lyuba, who is having sex with the camp doctor Mereshchun, in exchange for b
The Common
Oct 27, 1973
An exploration of the relationship between two couples from different social classes: one wealthy and Conservative, one poor and socialist.
The Recruiting Officer
Oct 18, 1973
Scoundrels are put on notice and women (literally) wear the pants in this uproarious comedy. Recruiting officers travel from port to port wooing men into service at sea, and women
Pygmalion
Dec 16, 1973 · 120 min
When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering take
The Changeling
Jan 20, 1974 · 103 min
A woman falls in love with a sea captain, and plots to kill her fiance.
The Importance of Being Earnest
Feb 17, 1974 · 100 min
Two young gentlemen living in 1890s England use the same pseudonym ('Ernest') on the sly, which is fine until they both fall in love with women using that name, which leads to a co
The Deep Blue Sea
Mar 17, 1974
A woman unhappy in her passionless marriage leaves her husband for a younger and more ardent lover.
The Skin Game
May 19, 1974
The rivalry between a wealthy businessman and his lower-class, self-made rival gets very personal indeed.