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BBC Television Shakespeare
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Series 1
1 :01x01 - Romeo and Juliet (Dec/03/1978)
Romantic tragedy about two teenagers from feuding families who fall for each other and the tragic results of their love.
Guest Stars: Mark Arden as Page, Jacqueline Hill as Lady Capulet, Roger Davidson as Balthasar, Zulema Dene as Lady Montague, David Sibley as Sampson, Christopher Strauli as Benvolio, John Paul as Montague, Esmond Knight as Old Capulet, Jack Carr (1) as Gregory, Vernon Dobtcheff as Apothecary, John Savident as Friar John, Jeremy Young (1) as First Watchman, Jeffrey Chiswick as Second Watchman, Laurence Naismith as Prince Escalus, Alan Rickman as Tybalt, Anthony Andrews as Mercutio, Joseph O'Conor as Friar Lawrence, Celia Johnson (3) as Nurse, Christopher Northey as Paris, Paul Henry (1) as Peter, Bunny Reed (1) as Abraham, Danny Schiller as Musician, Gary Taylor (1) as Potpan, Robert Burbage as Page, Alan Bowerman as First Citizen, Michael Hordern as Capulet, Patrick Ryecart as Romeo, Rebecca Saire as Juliet, John Gielgud as Chorus
Director: Alvin Rakoff
Writer: William Shakespeare
 
2 :01x02 - Richard II (Dec/10/1978)
Richard II, a weak and vacillating king, gives up his throne when faced with an invasion of England by a force led by the exiled Henry of Bolingbroke. Richard is later murdered by agents loyal to Bolingbroke.
Guest Stars: David Dodimead as Lord Ross, Alan Dalton as Green, Wendy Hiller as Duchess of York, Phillada Sewell as Queen's Lady, Mike Lewin (1) as Herald, Tim Brown (2) as Herald, Jonathan Adams (2) as Gardener, Carl Oatley as Earl Berkeley, William Whymper as Sir Stephen Scroop, John Barcroft as Earl of Salisbury, Desmond Adams as Sir Pierce of Exton, Alan Collins (2) as Gardener's Man, John Curless as Lord Fitzwater, Terry Wright as Murderer, Ronald Fernee as Servant, Sandra Frieze (1) as Queen's Lady, Bruno Barnabe as Abbot of Westminster, Paddy Ward as Keeper, Joe Ritchie as Groom, Derek Jacobi as King Richard II, John Gielgud as John of Gaunt, Jon Finch (1) as Henry Bolingbroke, Charles Gray (1) as Duke of York, Mary Morris as Duchess of Gloucester, David Swift (2) as Duke of Northumberland, Clifford Rose as Bishop of Carlisle, Charles Keating as Duke of Aumerle, Richard Owens as Thomas Mowbray, David Garfield (1) as Welsh Captain, John Flint as Lord Willoughby, Damien Thomas as Bagot, Robin Sachs as Bushy, Jeremy Bulloch as Henry Percy, Jeffrey Holland (1) as Duke of Surrey, Janet Maw as Queen
Director: David Giles (1)
Writer: William Shakespeare
 
3 :01x03 - As You Like It (Dec/17/1978)
Popular comedy about mistaken identity in the forest of Arden.
Guest Stars: David Prowse as Charles, John Moulder-Brown as Hymen, Paul Bentall as Jaques de Boys, Mike Lewin (1) as Second Palace Lord, Carl Forgione as Banished Duke's Lord in Arden, Max Harvey as Second Banished Duke's Lord in Arden, Tom McDonnell (1) as Amiens, David Lloyd Meredith as Corin, Peter A. Tullo as First Palace Lord, Chris Sullivan as Dennis, Paul Phoenix as Page, Barry Holden as Second Page, Timothy Bateson as Sir Oliver Martext, Jeffrey Holland (1) as William, Arthur Hewlett as Adam, Brian Stirner as Orlando, Tony Church as Old Duke, Victoria Plucknett as Phebe, Helen Mirren as Rosalind, Richard Pasco as Jaques, Angharad Rees as Celia, James Bolam as Touchstone, Marilyn Le Conte as Audrey, Maynard Williams as Silvius, John Quentin as Le Beau, Richard Easton as Duke Frederick, Clive Francis as Oliver
Director: Basil Coleman
Writer: William Shakespeare
 
4 :01x04 - Julius Caesar (Feb/11/1979)
Tragedy about the assassination in Rome of Julius Caesar by a group led by Brutus and Cassius and its aftermath.
Guest Stars: Michael Jenkinson as Dardanius, Noel Johnson as Publius, Nicholas Gecks as Volumnius, Jonathan Scott-Taylor as Lucius, Philip York as Young Cato, William Simons as Trebonius, Robert Oates as Pindarus, Christopher Good (1) as Clitus, Terence Conoley as Popolius, Reginald Jessup as Poet, Roy Spencer as Lepidus, Johnnie Wade as 3rd Soldier and 3rd Plebian, Michael Greatorex as Varro, Alan Thompson (6) as First Servant and First Plebian, Michael Cogan as Caesar's Servant, David Henry (1) as 2nd Soldier and 4th Plebian, Leo Dolan as 2nd Citizen and 2nd Plebian, Jack Elliott (2) as Octavius' Servant and a Messsenger, Tom Kelly (1) as Claudius and Antony's Servant, Maurice Thorogood as Strato, John Tordoff as Cinna the Poet, Ronald Forfar as Soothsayer, Jon Laurimore as Flavius, Garrick Hagon as Octavius Caesar, David Collings (1) as Cassius, Elizabeth Spriggs as Calpurnia, Virginia McKenna as Portia, Keith Michell (1) as Mark Antony, Richard Pasco as Marcus Brutus, Charles Gray (1) as Julius Caesar, Sam Dastor as Casca, Brian Coburn as Messala, John Sterland as Marullus, Roger Bizley as Metellus, Leonard Preston as Titinius, Andrew Hilton as Lucilius, Patrick Marley as Artemidorus, Manning Wilson as Cicero, Darien Angadi as Cinna, Anthony Dawes as Ligarius, Alexander Davion as Decius Brutus
Director: Herbert Wise
Writer: William Shakespeare
 
5 :01x05 - Measure For Measure (Feb/18/1979)
Duke Escalus goes away from Vienna for a while leaving his stern deputy, Angelo, in charge of things. Angelo immediately begins enforcing a strict moral code which might be bad news for Claudio who has impregnated his fiancee.
Guest Stars: Harry Jones as -, Geoffrey Cousins as Servant, Kevin Stoney as Escalus, John Abbott (2) as Second Gentleman, Alan Tucker as First Gentleman, Kate Nelligan as Isabella, Eileen Page as Francisca, William Sleigh as Barnardine, David King Lassman as Pageboy, Tony Friel as -, John Sarbutt as -, Nicholas Tudor as -, Neil McCarthy as Abhorson, David Browning as A Justice, Kenneth Colley as Duke Vincentio, Tim Pigott-Smith as Angelo, Alun Armstrong as Provost, Frank Middlemass as Pompey, Christopher Strauli as Claudio, Jacqueline Pearce as Mariana, John McEnery as Lucio, Ellis Jones as Elbow, Godfrey Jackman as Friar Thomas, John Clegg (1) as Froth, Yolanda Vazquez as Juliet, Adrienne Corri as Mistress Overdone
Director: Desmond Davis
Writer: William Shakespeare
 
6 :01x06 - Henry VIII (Feb/25/1979)
Shakespeare's account of the political machinations behind the divorce of Henry VIII from Katherine of Aragon, his subsequent re-marriage to Anne Boleyn, and the birth of the future Elizabeth I.
Guest Stars: Lewis Fiander as Duke of Suffolk, Nigel Lambert as Sir Thomas Lovell, Charles Lloyd Pack as Lord Sands, Jack McKenzie (1) as Sir Nicholas Vaux, John Nettleton as Lord Chamberlain, Oliver Cotton as Earl of Surrey, David Rintoul as Lord Abergavenny, Jack May (1) as Lord Chancellor, John Rowe as Thomas Cromwell, Jeremy Kemp as Duke of Norfolk, David Dodimead as Bishop of Lincoln, John Stride as Henry VIII, Timothy West as Cardinal Wolsey, Barbara Kellerman as Anne Boleyn, Julian Glover as Duke of Buckingham, Ronald Pickup as Cranmer, Claire Bloom as Katharine of Aragan, Michael Poole as Cardinal Campeius, Peter Vaughan (1) as Gardiner, Sylvia Coleridge as Old Lady
Director: Kevin Billington
Writer: William Shakespeare
 
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