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  1. Shakespeare 1564-1616 (1984 Video)

    aka: Maturing Shakespeare, The

    Series
    Six Centuries of Verse
    Director
    Richard Mervyn
    Producer
    Richard Mervyn

    16-part television series, presented by John Gielgud, on the history of poetry in the English language. This episode follows Shakespeare’s development as dramatist and poet. Presents extracts from Romeo...

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  2. Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show, The (1980 Television)

    Producer
    John Ammonds

    Variety show. A conceit of the show was Wise’s confident presentation of amateurishly inept plays which often parodied historical television plays or films. Wise’s character would write a play, complete...

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  3. Dying Day: Episode 4: Mr Skipling Fights Back (1980 Television)

    aka: Mr Skipling Fights Back

    Series
    Armchair Thriller
    Director
    Robert Tronson
    Producer
    Brenda Ennis

    Four-part psychological thriller. Anthony Skipling (McKellen) is an unassuming and seemingly harmless man who has neither friends nor enemies. He receives a tape cassette from a stranger on a train which...

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  4. Royal Variety Performance 1979, The (1979 Television)

    Director
    David Millard; Norman Maen

    Variety show from the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London in the presence of Her Majesty the Queen. In one sketch comedian Bernie Clifton recites Hamlet’s ‘to be or not to be’ soliloquy astride his...

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  5. Evening Standard Drama Awards 1978 (1979 Television)

    Director
    Dave Rogers (2)
    Producer
    Dave Rogers (2)

    Award show which includes extracts from Alan Howard in Coriolanus and Henry VI to illustrate his nominations for Best Actor. Howard won the Best Actor award for his title role in Coriolanus directed by Terry...

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  6. Rumpole and the Course of True Love (1979 Television)

    Series
    Rumpole of the Bailey
    Director
    Brian Farnham

    Rumpole defends Ronald Ransom, an English teacher accused of having had sexual relations with Francesca, a 15-year-old student in his class. Although he had written her several letters, which mysteriously...

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  7. Macbeth (1979 Television, Video)

    Director
    Philip Casson
    Producer
    Trevor Nunn

    Originally directed by Trevor Nunn for The Other Place, Stratford, the studio production envisaged a small group of actors creating the play before a small audience in an intimate atmosphere of the utmost...

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  8. Shakespeare and His Theatre (1977 Multimedia, Video)

    Director
    Alan Afriat
    Producer
    Alan Afriat

    Two programmes made in Stratford-on-Avon and London looking at Shakespeare’s life and the environment in which he wrote his plays. C. Walter Hodges talks about Elizabethan theatre, Professor John Russell...

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  9. Romeo and Juliet (1976 Television, Video)

    Series
    Thames Shakespeare Collection
    Director
    Joan Kemp-Welch
    Producer
    Francis Coleman

    A production for schools of the rarely performed uncut text, in an Italian Renaissance setting. The performance is divided into eight 26-minute sections, for ease of use in the classroom. Young students 13+...

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  10. Bentine (1975 Television)

    Director
    Leon Thau
    Producer
    David Clark (3)

    Comedy sketch show and a one-off special. Sketches include: a hole in one from an invisible Irish golfer, a version of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, and a visit to the operations room of the Royal Army Medical...

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