Se Ep Title Author Producer/ Performers UK 1 1 Lady Windermere's Fan Oscar Wilde Louis Marks (p);Helena Little ,Tim Woodward ,Stephanie Turner ,Kenneth Cranham ,James Saxon ,Geoff Morrell 15 September 1985 1 2 The Father August Strindberg Louis Marks (p);Kenneth Ives (d) Colin Blakely ,Dorothy Tutin ,Irene Handl ,Edward Fox ,Robert Lang 22 September 1985 1 3 Absent Friends Alan Ayckbourn Shaun Sutton (p);Tom Courtenay ,Julia McKenzie ,Dinsdale Landen ,Hywel Bennett ,Maureen Lipman 29 September 1985 1 4 Thunder Rock Robert Ardrey Louis Marks (p); Charles Dance ,Anna Massey ,Paul Copley ,Kathleen Byron ,David de Keyser ,Garrick Hagon ,Graham Crowden ,6 October 1985 1 5 Playboy of the West Indies J. M. Synge The Playboy of the Western World Mustapha Matura (adaptation) Alan Shallcross (p);Nicolas Kent (d) Joan Ann Maynard ,Rudolph Walker ,Ram John Holder ,Stefan Kalipha ,Frank Singuineau 13 October 1985 1 6 Trelawny of the 'Wells' Arthur Wing Pinero Louis Marks & Cedric Messina (p); Michael Hordern ,Nicholas Jones ,Avril Angers ,Samantha Bond ,Patricia Brake ,Philip Locke ,Vivian Pickles ,Arthur Cox 20 October 1985 1 7 Molière Mikhail Bulgakov (play);Dusty Hughes (adaptation) Cedric Messina (p);Bill Alexander (d) Antony Sher ,David Bradley ,Sylvia Coleridge ,David Troughton ,Christopher Bowen 27 October 1985 1 8 Tartuffe Molière (play)Christopher Hampton (translation) Cedric Messina (p);Antony Sher ,Nigel Hawthorne ,Alison Steadman ,3 November 1985 2 1 The Devil's Disciple George Bernard Shaw Shaun Sutton (p);David Jones (d) Mike Gwilym ,Ian Richardson ,Elizabeth Spriggs ,Patrick Stewart ,Patrick Newell ,John Cater ,Patrick Godfrey ,Larry Lamb ,Benjamin Whitrow 17 May 1987 2 2 What the Butler Saw Joe Orton Shaun Sutton (p); Dinsdale Landen,Tessa Peake-Jones ,Timothy West ,Prunella Scales 24 May 1987 2 3 Miss Julie August Strindberg Shaun Sutton (p); Janet McTeer ,Patrick Malahide 31 May 1987 2 4 Make and Break Michael Frayn Shaun Sutton (p);Michael Darlow Robert Hardy ,Judi Dench ,David Graham ,Martin Jarvis ,Wolf Kahler ,7 June 1987 2 5 Ghosts Henrik Ibsen Louis Marks (p);Elijah Moshinsky (d) Judi Dench ,Kenneth Branagh ,Michael Gambon ,Freddie Jones ,Natasha Richardson 14 June 1987 2 6 The Birthday Party Harold Pinter Rosemary Hill (p); Joan Plowright ,Julie Walters ,21 June 1987 3 1 The Miser Molière Shaun Sutton (p); Nigel Hawthorne,Jim Broadbent ,Kate Buffery ,Janet Suzman ,Christopher Benjamin ,Ron Cook ,John Gill ,Cyril Shaps 1 April 1988 3 2 The Master Builder Henrik Ibsen Shaun Sutton (p); Leo McKern ,Jane Lapotaire ,Sebastian Shaw ,Miranda Richardson ,Simon Rouse 15 May 1988 3 3 The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde Shaun Sutton (p);Stuart Burge (d) Paul McGann ,Rupert Frazer ,Amanda Redman ,Natalie Ogle ,Gemma Jones ,Alec McCowen ,John Woodnutt ,Peter Copley 29 May 1988 3 4 The Rivals Richard Brinsley Sheridan Shaun Sutton (p); Donald Sinden ,Sheila Hancock ,Michael Maloney ;Patrick Ryecart ,Ronald Pickup ,Suzanne Burden 5 June 1988 3 5 Strife John Galsworthy Shaun Sutton (p); Peter Vaughan ,Kate Buffery ,Anna Calder-Marshall ,Tenniel Evans ,Andrew Burt ,Trevor Cooper Bernard Archard ,John Nettleton ,Patsy Smart 12 June 1988 4 1 Arms and the Man George Bernard Shaw Shaun Sutton (p);James Cellan Jones (d) Helena Bonham Carter ,Kika Markham ,Pip Torrens ,Patsy Kensit ,16 April 1989 4 2 The Contractor David Storey Shaun Sutton (p); Timothy West,Jimmy Jewel ,Roger Lloyd-Pack ,Gawn Grainger 23 April 1989 4 3 The Winslow Boy Terence Rattigan Shaun Sutton (p); Rosemary Leach ,Gordon Jackson ,Gwen Watford ,Emma Thompson ,30 April 1989 4 4 Knuckle David Hare Tim Ironside-Wood (p);Moira Armstrong (d) Tim Roth ,Bernard Hepton ,Peter Hawkins ,7 May 1989 4 5 Metamorphosis Franz Kafka (short story);Martyn Auty (p);Jim Goddard (d) Tim Roth,Steven Berkoff ,Linda Marlowe ,Saskia Reeves ,Gary Olsen 21 May 1989 4 6 Benefactors Michael Frayn No producer credited; Barbara Flynn ,Michael Kitchen ,Alan Rickman ,Harriet Walter ,28 May 1989 5 1 Othello William Shakespeare Greg Smith (p);Trevor Nunn (d) Willard White ,Ian McKellen ,Imogen Stubbs ,Zoë Wanamaker ,Michael Grandage ,Clive Swift 23 June 1990 5 2 Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death Edward Bond Tim Ironside-Wood (p);Don Taylor (d) David Suchet ,Kenneth Haigh ,Peter Jeffrey ,Brenda Bruce 30 June 1990 5 3 Pentecost Stewart Parker (writer); No producer credited; Dearbhla Molloy ,Adrian Dunbar ,Michelle Fairley ,14 July 1990 5 4 Iphigenia at Aulis Euripides Louis Marks (p); Roy Marsden ,Fiona Shaw ,Imogen Boorman ,Eric Allan ,Jason Durr ,21 July 1990 
