First aired: Dec/03/1978
Writer: William Shakespeare
Director: Alvin Rakoff
Guest star: Mark Arden (Page), Jacqueline Hill (Lady Capulet), Roger Davidson (Balthasar), Zulema Dene (Lady Montague), David Sibley (Sampson), Christopher Strauli (Benvolio), John Paul (Montague), Esmond Knight (Old Capulet), Jack Carr (Gregory), Vernon Dobtcheff (Apothecary), John Savident (Friar John), Jeremy Young (First Watchman), Jeffrey Chiswick (Second Watchman), Laurence Naismith (Prince Escalus), Alan Rickman (Tybalt), Anthony Andrews (Mercutio), Joseph O'Conor (Friar Lawrence), Celia Johnson (Nurse), Christopher Northey (Paris), Paul Henry (Peter), Bunny Reed (Abraham), Danny Schiller (Musician), Gary Taylor (Potpan), Robert Burbage (Page), Alan Bowerman (First Citizen), Michael Hordern (Capulet), Patrick Ryecart (Romeo), Rebecca Saire (Juliet), John Gielgud (Chorus)

First aired: Dec/10/1978
Writer: William Shakespeare
Director: David Giles
Guest star: David Dodimead (Lord Ross), Alan Dalton (Green), Wendy Hiller (Duchess of York), Phillada Sewell (Queen's Lady), Mike Lewin (Herald), Tim Brown (Herald), Jonathan Adams (Gardener), Carl Oatley (Earl Berkeley), William Whymper (Sir Stephen Scroop), John Barcroft (Earl of Salisbury), Desmond Adams (Sir Pierce of Exton), Alan Collins (Gardener's Man), John Curless (Lord Fitzwater), Terry Wright (Murderer), Ronald Fernee (Servant), Sandra Frieze (Queen's Lady), Bruno Barnabe (Abbot of Westminster), Paddy Ward (Keeper), Joe Ritchie (Groom), Derek Jacobi (King Richard II), John Gielgud (John of Gaunt), Jon Finch (Henry Bolingbroke), Charles Gray (Duke of York), Mary Morris (Duchess of Gloucester), David Swift (Duke of Northumberland), Clifford Rose (Bishop of Carlisle), Charles Keating (Duke of Aumerle), Richard Owens (Thomas Mowbray), David Garfield (Welsh Captain), John Flint (Lord Willoughby), Damien Thomas (Bagot), Robin Sachs (Bushy), Jeremy Bulloch (Henry Percy), Jeffrey Holland (Duke of Surrey), Janet Maw (Queen)

First aired: Dec/17/1978
Writer: William Shakespeare
Director: Basil Coleman
Guest star: David Prowse (Charles), John Moulder-Brown (Hymen), Paul Bentall (Jaques de Boys), Mike Lewin (Second Palace Lord), Carl Forgione (Banished Duke's Lord in Arden), Max Harvey (Second Banished Duke's Lord in Arden), Tom McDonnell (Amiens), David Lloyd Meredith (Corin), Peter A. Tullo (First Palace Lord), Chris Sullivan (Dennis), Paul Phoenix (Page), Barry Holden (Second Page), Timothy Bateson (Sir Oliver Martext), Jeffrey Holland (William), Arthur Hewlett (Adam), Brian Stirner (Orlando), Tony Church (Old Duke), Victoria Plucknett (Phebe), Helen Mirren ( Rosalind), Richard Pasco (Jaques), Angharad Rees (Celia), James Bolam (Touchstone), Marilyn Le Conte (Audrey), Maynard Williams (Silvius), John Quentin (Le Beau), Richard Easton (Duke Frederick), Clive Francis (Oliver)

First aired: Feb/11/1979
Writer: William Shakespeare
Director: Herbert Wise
Guest star: Michael Jenkinson (Dardanius), Noel Johnson (Publius), Nicholas Gecks (Volumnius), Jonathan Scott-Taylor (Lucius), Philip York (Young Cato), William Simons (Trebonius), Robert Oates (Pindarus), Christopher Good (Clitus), Terence Conoley (Popolius), Reginald Jessup (Poet), Roy Spencer (Lepidus), Johnnie Wade (3rd Soldier and 3rd Plebian), Michael Greatorex (Varro), Alan Thompson (First Servant and First Plebian), Michael Cogan (Caesar's Servant), David Henry (2nd Soldier and 4th Plebian), Leo Dolan (2nd Citizen and 2nd Plebian), Jack Elliott (Octavius' Servant and a Messsenger), Tom Kelly (Claudius and Antony's Servant), Maurice Thorogood (Strato), John Tordoff (Cinna the Poet), Ronald Forfar (Soothsayer), Jon Laurimore (Flavius), Garrick Hagon (Octavius Caesar), David Collings (Cassius), Elizabeth Spriggs (Calpurnia), Virginia McKenna (Portia), Keith Michell (Mark Antony), Richard Pasco (Marcus Brutus), Charles Gray (Julius Caesar), Sam Dastor (Casca), Brian Coburn (Messala), John Sterland (Marullus), Roger Bizley (Metellus), Leonard Preston (Titinius), Andrew Hilton (Lucilius), Patrick Marley (Artemidorus), Manning Wilson (Cicero), Darien Angadi (Cinna), Anthony Dawes (Ligarius), Alexander Davion (Decius Brutus)

First aired: Feb/18/1979
Writer: William Shakespeare
Director: Desmond Davis
Guest star: Harry Jones (-), Geoffrey Cousins (Servant), Kevin Stoney (Escalus), John Abbott (Second Gentleman), Alan Tucker (First Gentleman), Kate Nelligan (Isabella), Eileen Page (Francisca), William Sleigh (Barnardine), David King Lassman (Pageboy), Tony Friel (-), John Sarbutt (-), Nicholas Tudor (-), Neil McCarthy (Abhorson), David Browning (A Justice), Kenneth Colley (Duke Vincentio), Tim Pigott-Smith (Angelo), Alun Armstrong (Provost), Frank Middlemass (Pompey), Christopher Strauli (Claudio), Jacqueline Pearce (Mariana), John McEnery (Lucio), Ellis Jones (Elbow), Godfrey Jackman (Friar Thomas), John Clegg (Froth), Yolanda Vazquez (Juliet), Adrienne Corri (Mistress Overdone)

First aired: Feb/25/1979
Writer: William Shakespeare
Director: Kevin Billington
Guest star: Lewis Fiander (Duke of Suffolk), Nigel Lambert (Sir Thomas Lovell), Charles Lloyd Pack (Lord Sands), Jack McKenzie (Sir Nicholas Vaux), John Nettleton (Lord Chamberlain), Oliver Cotton (Earl of Surrey), David Rintoul (Lord Abergavenny), Jack May (Lord Chancellor), Sylvia Coleridge (Old Lady), John Rowe (Thomas Cromwell), Jeremy Kemp (Duke of Norfolk), John Stride (Henry VIII), Timothy West (Cardinal Wolsey), Barbara Kellerman (Anne Boleyn), Julian Glover (Duke of Buckingham), Ronald Pickup (Cranmer), Claire Bloom (Katharine of Aragan), Michael Poole (Cardinal Campeius), Peter Vaughan (Gardiner), David Dodimead (Bishop of Lincoln)

First aired: Dec/09/1979
Writer: William Shakespeare
Director: David Giles
Guest star: John Cairney (Archibald, Earl of Douglas), David Neal (Scroop, Archbishop of York), Rob Edwards (Prince John of Lancaster), David Buck (Earl of Westmoreland), Robert Brown (Sir Walter Blunt), Bryan Pringle (Pistol), Gordon Gostelow (Bardolph), Sharon Morgan (Lady Mortimer), Richard Owens (Owen Glendower), Robert Morris (Edmund Mortimer, Earl of March), Brenda Bruce (Mistress Quickly), Anthony Quayle (Sir John Falstaff), Jon Finch (King Henry IV), David Gwillim (Henry, Prince of Wales), Tim Pigott-Smith (Henry Percy (Hotspur)), Clive Swift (Thomas Percy, Earl of Worcester), Bruce Purchase (Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland), Michele Dotrice (Lady Percy), Jack Galloway (Poins)

First aired: Dec/16/1979
Writer: William Shakespeare
Director: David Giles
Guest star: Gordon Gostelow (Bardolph), Bryan Pringle (Pistol), Jonathan Fowler (Falstaff's Page), Robert Eddison (Justice Robert Swallow), Leslie French (Justice Silence), Jenny Laird (Lady Northumberland), Michele Dotrice (Lady Percy), Ralph Michael (Lord Chief Justice), David Neal (Scroop, Archbishop of York), Rob Edwards (Prince John of Lancaster), Anthony Quayle (Sir John Falstaff), David Gwillim (Henry, Prince of Wales), Jon Finch (King Henry IV), Bruce Purchase (Earl of Northumberland), Jack Galloway (Poins), Brenda Bruce (Mistress Quickly), Frances Cuka (Doll Tearsheet)

First aired: Dec/23/1979
Writer: William Shakespeare
Director: David Giles
Guest star: Jonathan Fowler (Boy), Jocelyne Boisseau (Princess Katherine), Trevor Baxter (Archbishop of Canterbury), John Abineri (Bishop of Ely), Anna Quayle (Alice), Brian Poyser (Gower), Rob Beacham (Earl of Warwick), Brenda Bruce (Mistress Quickly), Garrick Hagon (Mountjoy the Herald), Julian Glover (Constable of France), David Gwillim (King Henry V), Alec McCowen (Chorus), Bryan Pringle (Pistol), Tim Wylton (Fluellen), Clifford Parris (Duke of Exeter), Thorley Walters (King Charles VI), Keith Drinkel (Louis the Dauphin)

First aired: Jan/06/1980
Writer: William Shakespeare
Director: John Gorrie
Guest star: Ric Morgan (Sea Captain), Arthur Hewlett (Priest), Andrew MacLachlan (First Officer), Jean Channon (Waiting Woman), Clive Arrindell (Orsino), Malcolm Reynolds (Valentine), Peter Holt (Second Officer), Danny Webb (Servant (as Daniel Webb)), Ryan Michael (Curio), Michael Thomas (Sebastian), Maurice Roëves (Antonio), Alec McCowen (Malvolio), Robert Hardy (Sir Toby Belch), Felicity Kendal (Viola), Annette Crosbie (Maria), Sinéad Cusack (Olivia), Trevor Peacock (Feste), Ronnie Stevens (Sir Andrew Aguecheek), Robert Lindsay (Fabian)

First aired: Feb/27/1980
Writer: William Shakespeare
Director: John Gorrie
Guest star: Andrew Sachs (Trinculo), Kenneth Gilbert (Boatswain), Christopher Bramwell (Adrian), Paul Greenhalgh (Francisco), Gwyneth Lloyd (Juno), Elizabeth Gardner (Ceres), Judith Rees (Iris), Nigel Hawthorne (Stephano), John Nettleton (Gonzalo), Alan Rowe (Sebastian), Michael Hordern (Prospero), David Dixon (Ariel), Warren Clarke (Caliban), Pippa Guard (Miranda), Christopher Guard (Ferdinand), Derek Godfrey (Antonio), David Waller (Alonso)

First aired: May/25/1980
Writer: William Shakespeare
Director: Rodney Bennett
Guest star: Paul Humpoletz (Marcellus), Peter Benson (Second Gravedigger), Tim Wylton (First Grave Digger), Stuart Fell (Player), Terence McGinity (Player in the mime - Murderer), Geoffrey Beevers (Third Player - Lucianus), Christopher Baines (Francisco), John Humphry (Voltimand), John Sterland (Cornelius), Peter Gale (Osric), Raymond Mason (Reynaldo), Dan Meaden (Norwegian Captain), Reginald Jessup (Messenger), Michael Poole (Priest), David Henry (English Ambassador), Jason Kemp (Second Player - Queen), Emrys James (First Player - King), Geoffrey Bateman ( Guildenstern), Eric Porter (Polonius), Bill Homewood (Player in the mime - King), Peter Richard (Player in the mime - Queen), Peter Burroughs (Player), Ian Charleson (Fortinbras), Niall Padden (Bernardo), Iain Blair (Sailor), Derek Jacobi (Hamlet, Prince of Denmark), Claire Bloom (Queen Gertrude), Jonathan Hyde (Rosencrantz), Robert Swann (Horatio), Patrick Allen (Ghost), David Robb (Laertes), Lalla Ward (Ophelia), Patrick Stewart (King Claudius)

First aired: Oct/23/1980
Writer: William Shakespeare
Director: Jonathan Miller
Guest star: Harry Waters, Jr. (Biondello), John Bird (Pedant), Joan Hickson (Widow), John Barron (Vincentio), Alan Hay (Tailor), David Kinsey (Haberdasher), Angus Lennie (Curtis), Frank Thornton (Gremio), John Franklyn-Robbins (Baptista), Sarah Badel (Katherine), John Cleese (Petruchio), Susan Penhaligon (Bianca), Simon Chandler (Lucentio), Jonathan Cecil (Hortensio), Anthony Pedley (Tranio), David Kincaid (Grumio)

First aired: Dec/17/1980
Writer: William Shakespeare
Director: Jack Gold
Guest star: John Rhys-Davies (Salerio), Alan David (Solanio), Marc Zuber (Prince of Morocco), Peter Gale (Prince of Aragon), Enn Reitel (Lancelot Gobbo), Joe Gladwin (Old Gobbo), Arnold Diamond (Tubal), Douglas Wilmer (Duke of Venice), Richard Morant (Lorenzo), Warren Mitchell (Shylock), Gemma Jones (Portia), John Franklyn-Robbins (Antonio), John Nettles (Bassiano), Susan Jameson (Nerissa), Kenneth Cranham (Gratiano), Leslee Udwin (Jessica)

First aired: Jan/04/1981
Writer: William Shakespeare
Director: Elijah Moshinsky
Guest star: Pippa Grant (Diana), Rosemary Leach (Widow of Florence), Joolia Cappleman (Mariana), Nickolas Grace (Interpreter), Kevin Stoney (Steward), Terence McGinity (First Gentleman), Max Arthur (Second Gentleman), Dominic Jephcott (Second Lord Dumaine), Robert Lindsay (First Lord Dumaine), Angela Down (Helena), Ian Charleson (Bertram), Peter Jeffrey (Parolles), Celia Johnson (Countess of Rousillion), Michael Hordern (Lafeu), Donald Sinden (King of France), Paul Brooke (Lavache)

First aired: Feb/08/1981
Writer: William Shakespeare
Director: Jane Howell
Guest star: Paul Jesson (Clown), Cyril Luckham (Antigonus), Jeremy Dimmick (Mamillus), John Curless (Cleomenes), Colin McCormack (Dion), Harold Goldblatt (Time the Chorus), Pat Gorman (Bear), Arthur Hewlett (Old Shepard), Robin Kermode (Florizel), Jeremy Kemp (Leontes), Anna Calder-Marshall (Hermione), Margaret Tyzack (Paulina), Robert Stephens (Polixenes), David Burke (Camillo), Rikki Fulton (Autolycus), Debbie Farrington (Perdita)

First aired: Apr/16/1981
Writer: William Shakespeare
Director: Jonathan Miller
Guest star: John Bailey (Sempronius), Max Arthur (Lucillus), Elayne Sharling (Phryina), Diana Dors (Timandra), David Kinsey (Jeweler), Geoffrey Collins (Flaminius), Terence McGinity (Servilius), Donald Gee (Ventidus), James Cossins (Lucullus), Jonathan Pryce (Timon), Norman Rodway (Apemantus), John Shrapnel (Alcibades), John Welsh (Flavius), John Fortune (Poet), John Bird (Painter), Hugh Thomas (Lucius)

First aired: May/08/1981
Writer: William Shakespeare
Director: Jonathan Miller
Guest star: Janet Key (Charmian), Darien Angadi (Alexas), Jonathan Adams (Ventidus), John Paul (Canidus), Lynn Farleigh (Octavia), John Eastham (Servant), Howard Goorney (Soothsayer), Cassie McFarlane (Iras), Emrys James (Enobarbus), Harry Waters, Jr. (Thyreus), David Neal (Proculeius), Anthony Pedley (Agrippa), Donald Sumpter (Pompeius), George Innes (Menas), Michael Egan (Soldier), George Howe (Euphronius), Christopher Ettridge (Scarus), Pat Connell (Soldier), Colin Blakely (Marc Antony), Jane Lapotaire (Cleopatra), Ian Charleson (Octavius Caesar), David Kincaid (Cleopatra's Messenger), Michael Anthony (2nd Messenger), Iain Rattray (Soldier), Kevin Huckstep (1st Messenger), Mohammad Shamsi (Mardian), Esmond Knight (Lepidus), Simon Chandler (Eros), Jimmy Gardner (Clown), Alec Sabin (Dercetas), Frederick Warder (Soldier), Desmond Stokes (Menecrates), Geoffrey Collins (Dolabella)

First aired: Oct/04/1981
Writer: William Shakespeare
Director: Jonathan Miller
Guest star: Joseph O'Conor (Lodovico), Wendy Morgan (Bianca), Seymour Green (1st Senator), Howard Goorney (2nd Senator), Max Harvey (1st Gentleman), Terence McGinity (2nd Gentleman), Nigel Nobes (3rd Gentleman), Peter Walmesley (Officer), Alexander Davion (Gratiano), Tony Steedman (Montano), Anthony Hopkins (Othello), Bob Hoskins (Iago), Penelope Wilton (Desdemona), Rosemary Leach (Emilia), Geoffrey Chater (Brabantio), Anthony Pedley (Roderigo), David Yelland (Cassio), John Barron (Duke of Venice)

First aired: Oct/07/1981
Writer: William Shakespeare
Director: Jonathan Miller
Guest star: Simon Cutter (Patroclus), Paul Moriarty (Diomedes), Geoffrey Chater (Nestor), Benjamin Whitrow (Ulysses), Kenneth Haigh (Achilles), Jack Birkett (Thersites), Ann Pennington (Helen), Merelina Kendall (Andromache), Elayne Sharling (Cassandra), Max Harvey (Alexander), David Kinsey (Servant to Paris), Peter Walmsley (Servant to Troilus), Bernard Brown (Menelaus), Vernon Dobtcheff (Agamemnon), Anton Lesser (Troilus), Suzanne Burden (Cressida), Peter Whitbread (Calchas), Anthony Pedley (Ajax), Tony Portacio (Helenus), Peter Cassell (Deiphobus), Esmond Knight (Priam), Charles Gray (Pandarus), Tony Steedman (Aeneas), Cornelius Garrett (Margarelon), David Firth (Paris), John Shrapnel (Hector)

First aired: Dec/13/1981
Writer: William Shakespeare
Director: Elijah Moshinsky
Guest star: Roy Mort (Snug), Phil Daniels (Puck), Helen Mirren (Titania), Peter McEnery (Oberon), Bruce Savage (Peaseblossom), Massimo Mezzofanti (Cobweb), Dominic Martelli (Moth), Timothy Cross (Mustardseed), Brian Glover (Nick Bottom), Nat Jackley (Snout), Don Estelle (Starveling), Jonathan Fowler (Flute), Estelle Kohler (Hippolyta), Nigel Davenport (Theseus), Hugh Quarshie (Philostrate), Geoffrey Lumsden (Egeus), Pippa Guard (Hermia), Nicky Henson (Demetrius), Robert Lindsay (Lysander), Cherith Mellor (Helena), Geoffrey Palmer (Quince)

First aired: Sep/19/1982
Writer: William Shakespeare
Director: Jonathan Miller
Guest star: John Grillo (Oswald), Anton Lesser (Edgar), Norman Rodway (Gloucester), Gillian Barge (Goneril), John Wells (Albany), Penelope Wilton (Regan), Michael Kitchen (Edmund), Frank Middlemass (Fool), John Shrapnel (Kent), Brenda Blethyn (Cordelia), Michael Hordern (King Lear)

First aired: Jul/10/1983
Writer: William Shakespeare
Director: Elijah Moshinsky
Guest star: Graham Crowden (Caius Lucius), Patricia Hayes (Soothsayer), Ray Mort (Gaoler), Aimée Delamain (Gentle Woman), Terence McGinity (1st British Captain), Peter Aldwyn (2nd British Captain), Nigel Robson (Singer), Geoffrey Lumsden (Philario), Marius Goring (Sicilus Lenoatus), Madge Ryan (Mother), Allen Hendrick (Frenchman), Nicholas Young (Lord), Michael Hordern (Jupiter), Paul Jesson (Cloten), Michael Pennington (Posthumus), Helen Mirren (Imogen), Robert Lindsay (Iachimo), Richard Johnson (Cymbeline), Claire Bloom (Queen), Michael Gough (Belarius), Hugh Thomas (Cornelius), John Kane (Pisanio), Patsy Smart (Helen), David Creedon (Arriragus), Geoffrey Burridge (Guiderius)

First aired: Dec/28/1982
Writer: William Shakespeare
Director: Jonathan Miller
Guest star: Tenniel Evans (Sir Hugh Evans), Elizabeth Spriggs (Mistress Quickly), Bryan Marshall (George Page), Gordon Gostelow (Bardolph), Nigel Terry (Pistol), Miranda Foster (Anne Page), Ron Cook (Peter Simple), Michael Graham Cox (Innkeeper), Lee Whitlock (Robin), Michael Robbins (Nym), Michael Bryant (Dr. Caius), Richard O'Callaghan (Slender), Richard Griffiths (Sir John Falstaff), Judy Davis (Mistress Ford), Prunella Scales (Mistress Page), Ben Kingsley (Frank Ford), Alan Bennett (Justice Shallow), Simon Chandler (Fenton), Ralph Brown (John), Peter Gordon (Robert), Crispin Mair (William Page)

First aired: Jan/02/1983
Writer: William Shakespeare
Director: Jane Howell
Guest star: Arthur Cox (Sir John Falstolfe/Mayor of London), Derek Farr (Earl of Salisbury), Tenniel Evans (Duke of Bedford), Ian Saynor (Dauphin Charles), Mark Wing-Davey (Earl of Warwick), Ron Cook (Messenger/Porter), David Baker (Duke of Anjou), Joseph O'Conor (Duke of Exeter), Peter Benson (King Henry VI), Julia Foster (Queen Margaret), Joanna McCallum (Countess d'Auvergne), Alex Guard (John Talbot), Frank Middlemass (Bishop of Winchester)

First aired: Jan/09/1983
Writer: William Shakespeare
Director: Jane Howell
Guest star: Mark Wing-Davey (Earl of Warwick), Frank Middlemass (Cardinal of Winchester), Ron Cook (Richard Plantagenet), Anne Carroll (Duchess of Gloucester), Trevor Peacock (Jack Cade), Bernard Hill (Duke of York), Julia Foster (Queen Margaret), Peter Benson (King Henry VI)

First aired: Jan/16/1983
Writer: William Shakespeare
Director: Jane Howell
Guest star: Nick Reding (Prince Edward), Rowena Cooper (Lady Grey), Brian Protheroe (King Edward IV), Mark Wing-Davey (Earl of Warwick), Ron Cook (Richard Duke of Gloucester), Bernard Hill (Duke of York), Julia Foster (Queen Margaret), Peter Benson (King Henry VI)

First aired: Jan/23/1983
Writer: William Shakespeare
Director: Jane Howell
Guest star: Paul Jesson (George, Duke of Clarence), Bernard Hill (First Murderer), Derek Fuke (Sir Thomas Vaughan), Julia Foster (Queen Margaret), Derek Farr (Sir Robert Brakenbury, Earl of Surrey), Tenniel Evans (Lord Stanley), Patsy Kensit (Lady Margaret Plantagenet), Oengus MacNamara (Halberdier, Lord Lovell), Brian Protheroe (King Edward IV), Nick Reding (Ghost of The Prince of Wales), Zoë Wanamaker (Lady Anne), Mark Wing-Davey (Sir James Tyrrel), Peter Wyatt (Duke of Norfolk), Stephen Paine (Drummer), Frank Walsh (Trumpeter), Brian Deacon (Henry, Earl of Richmond), David Daker (Lord Hastings), Annette Crosbie (Duchess of York), Peter Benson (King Henry VI), Anthony Brown (Sir Richard Ratcliffe), David Burke (Sir William Catesby), Michael Byrne (Duke of Buckingham), Anne Carroll (Jane Shore), Paul Chapman (Earl Rivers), Ron Cook (King Richard III), Jeremy Dimmick (Young Duke Of York), Dorian Ford (Edward Prince of Wales), Arthur Cox (Lord Grey, Mayor of London), Rowena Cooper (Queen Elizabeth), Rusty Livingstone (Page to Richard), Brian Little (Drummer), Alex Guard (Marquess of Dorset), Nigel Gomm (Trumpeter)

First aired: Oct/17/1983
Writer: William Shakespeare
Director: Jack Gold
Guest star: Philip Dunbar (3rd Murderer), Christopher Reich (2nd Murderer), Barry Lowe (1st Murderer), Christopher Fulford (2nd Messenger), Gordon Kane (1st Messenger), Will Leighton (Old Man), Rodney Cardiff (4th Murderer), Mark Lindsay (5th Murderer), Crispin Mair (Macduff's Son), Jane Lapotaire (Lady Macbeth), Jill Baker (Lady Macduff), Denyse Alexander (Gentlewoman), Brenda Bruce (1st Witch), Eileen Way (2nd Witch), Anne Dyson (3rd Witch), James Bolam (Porter), Christopher Ellison (Captain), John Woodnutt (Doctor), Nicol Williamson (Macbeth), Ian Hogg (Banquo), Mark Dignam (Duncan), James Hazeldine (Malcolm), Tom Bowles (Donalbain), Tony Doyle (Macduff), John Rowe (Lennox), Gawn Grainger (Ross), Matthew Long (Monteith), Eamon Boland (Seyton), Nicholas Coppin (Young Siward), William Abney (Siward), Alistair Henderson (Fleance), Peter Porteous (Caithness), David Lyon (Angus)

First aired: Dec/24/1983
Writer: William Shakespeare
Director: James Cellan Jones
Guest star: David Kelly (Balthazar), Alfred Hoffman (2nd Merchant), Frank Williams (Officer), Ingrid Pitt (Courtezan), Geoffrey Rose (Pinch), Wendy Hiller (Aemelia), Peter MacKriel (Messenger), Sam Dastor (Angelo), Marsha Fitzalan (Luce), Joanne Pearce (Luciana), Cyril Cusack (Aegan), Charles Gray (Solinus Duke of Ephasus), Bunny Reed (Gaoler), Michael Kitchen (Antipholi Twins), Roger Daltrey (Dromio Twins), Noel Johnson (1st Merchant), Suzanne Bertish (Adriana)

First aired: Dec/27/1983
Writer: William Shakespeare
Director: Don Taylor
Guest star: Tony Haygarth (Lance), David Collings (Thurio), Paul Daneman (Duke of Milan), Daniel Flynn (Servant), Adam Kurakin (1st Outlaw), John Baxter (2nd Outlaw), Andrew Burt (3rd Outlaw), Joanne Pearce (Silvia), John Woodnutt (Panthino), Frank Barrie (Sir Eglamour), Tessa Peake-Jones (Julia), Hetta Charnley (Lucetta), Tyler Butterworth (Proteus), John Hudson (Valentine), Nicholas Kaby (Speed), Michael Byrne (Antonio)

First aired: Apr/21/1984
Writer: William Shakespeare
Director: Elijah Moshinsky
Guest star: Reginald Jessup (2nd Volsican Soldier), Irene Worth (Volumnia), Joanna McCallum (Virgillia), Patsy Smart (Gentlewoman), Heather Canning (Valeria), Jay Ruparelia (Roman Soldier), Damien Franklin (Young Marcius), Nicholas Amer (Aedile), Teddy Kempner (Nicanor), Stephen Finlay (Antium Citizen), Joss Ackland (Menenius), Brian Poyser (1st Volsican Soldier), Valentine Dyall (Adrian), Paul Jesson (1st Citizen), Ray Roberts (2nd Citizen), Leon Lissek (3rd Citizen), Jon Rumrey (4th Citizen), Russell Kilmister (5th Citizen), Alan Howard (Caius Marcius Coriolanus), John Rowe (Roman Senator), Peter Sands (Titus Lartius), John Burgess (Sicinius), Anthony Pedley (Brutus), Mike Gwilym (Aufidius)

First aired: Jun/11/1984
Writer: William Shakespeare
Director: David Hugh Jones
Guest star: Edward Petherbridge (Gower), Clive Swift (Lord Cerimon), Juliet Stevenson (Thaisa), Patrick Allen (King Simonides), John Woodvine (Antiochus), Norman Rodway (Cleon of Tarsus), Annette Crosbie (Dianyza), Amanda Redman (Marina), Mike Gwilym (Pericles)

First aired: Nov/24/1984
Writer: William Shakespeare
Director: David Hugh Jones
Guest star: Jonathan Coy (Louis the Dauphin), Luc Owen (Duke of Britaine), Gorden Kaye (Duke of Austria), Claire Bloom (Constance), John Moreno (Melun), Ian Barritt (French Herald), Janet Maw (Blanche), Carl Oatley (English Herald), Clifford Parrish (Angiers Citizen), Richard Wordsworth (Cardinal Pandulph), Charles Kay (King Phillip of France), Phyllida Law (Lady Falconbridge), Leonard Rossiter (King John), William Whymper (Chatillon), Mary Morris (Queen Elinor), Robert Brown (Earl of Pembroke), John Castle (Earl of Salisbury), John Flint (Lord Bigot), John Thaw (Herbert de Brugh), George Castigan (Phillip the Bastard), Edward Hibbert (Robert Falconbridge), Mike Lewin (James Gurney)

First aired: Nov/30/1984
Writer: William Shakespeare
Director: Stuart Burge
Guest star: Michael Elphick (Dogberry), Oz Clarke (Balthasar), Ishia Bennison (Ursula), Tony Rohr (Borachio), Robert Gwilym (Conrade), Vernon Dobtcheff (Don John), Clive Dunn (Verges), Gorden Kaye (First Watch), Perry Benson (Second Watch), Roger Frost (Member of Watch), Declan Mulholland (Member of Watch), Stephen Wale (Member of Watch), Graham Crowden (Friar Francis), John Kidd ( Sexton), Barbara Rhoades (Dancer), Gordon Whiting (Antonio), Robert Reynolds (Claudio), Robert Lindsay (Benedick), Katharine Levy (Hero), Pamela Moiseiwitsch (Margaret), Ben Losh (Boy), Simone Baker (Dancer), Jean Pierre Blanchard (Dancer), Nicola Keen (Dancer), Philippa Luce (Dancer), Bryan Payne (Dancer), Trevor St John Hacker (Dancer), Jon Finch ( Don Pedro), Cherie Lunghi ( Beatrice), Tim Faulkner (Messenger), Lee Montague (Leonato), Clair Symonds (Dancer), Peter Salmon (Dancer)

First aired: Jan/05/1985
Writer: William Shakespeare
Director: Elijah Moshinsky
Guest star: Frank Williams (Dull), John Kane (Moth), Geoffrey Burridge (Dumain), Jay Ruparelia (Adrian), John Burgess (Sir Nathaniel), John Wells (Holofernes), Valentine Dyall (Marcade), Clifford Rose (Boyet), Petra Markham (Katherine), Paddy Nevin (Jacquenetta), Jonathan Kent (King of Navarre), Maureen Lipman (Princess of France), David Warner (Don Armando), Mike Gwilym (Berowne), Jenny Agutter (Rosaline), Christopher Blake (Longaville), Paul Jesson (Castard)

First aired: Apr/27/1985
Writer: William Shakespeare
Director: Jane Howell
Guest star: Gavin Richards (Lucius), Crispin Redman (Quintus), Tom Hunsinger (Martius), Michael Packer (Mutius), Trevor Peacock (Titus Andronicus), Anna Calder-Marshall (Lavinia), Paul Kelly (Publius), John Benfield (Caius), Deddie Davies (Nurse), Hugh Quarshie (Aaron), Michael Crompton (Chiron), Paul Davies Prowles (Young Lucius), Edward Hardwicke (Marcus), Walter Brown (Aemilius), Brian Protheroe (Saturninus), Nicholas Gecks (Bassianus), Derek Fuke (Sempronius/Captain), Eileen Atkins (Tamora), Peter Searles (Alarbus/Valentine), Neil McCaul (Demetrius), Tim Potter (Clown)