The BBC Television Shakespeare
Season 1
Episodes
1. Romeo & Juliet
8.0
December 3, 1978
168 min
Patrick Ryecart and Rebecca Saire play the star crossed lovers in one of Shakespeare's best-loved plays.
2. King Richard the Second
December 10, 1978
157 min
Derek Jacobi is King Richard II in the second of the BBC's new productions of Shakespeare.
3. As You Like It
December 17, 1978
150 min
Classic comedy by William Shakespeare about the travails of lovers Rosalind and Orlando, who become entangled in a beguiling game of love, lust and mistaken identity.
4. Julius Caesar
February 11, 1979
161 min
Shakespeare's great political thriller tells the story of the conspiracy against Caesar, his assassination and the defeat of his conspirators.
5. Measure For Measure
February 18, 1979
145 min
Shakespeare's classic comedy occasionally veers into more troublesome territory, as the characters face dark and ambiguous moral choices.
6. The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight
February 25, 1979
165 min
Classic play by William Shakespeare starring John Stride, Timothy West, Ronald Pickup, and Claire Bloom.
7. Episode 7
8. Episode 8
9. Episode 9
10. Episode 10
11. Episode 11
12. Episode 12
13. Episode 13
14. Episode 14
15. Episode 15
16. Episode 16
17. Episode 17
18. Episode 18
19. Episode 19
20. Episode 20
21. Episode 21
22. Episode 22
23. Episode 23
24. Episode 24
25. Episode 25
26. Episode 26
27. Episode 27
28. Episode 28
29. Episode 29
30. Episode 30
31. Episode 31
32. Episode 32
33. Episode 33
34. Episode 34
35. Episode 35
36. Episode 36
37. Episode 37
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