Masterpiece Theatre
The First 35 Years: 1971-2006
Season 1: 1971-1972
The First Churchills
The Spoils of Poynton
The Possessed
Pere Goriot
Jude the Obscure
The Gambler
Resurrection
Cold Comfort Farm
The Six Wives of Henry VIII ▼ •
Elizabeth R ▼ •
The Last of the Mohicans
Henry James
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Honore de Balzac
Thomas Hardy
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Leo Tolstoy
Stella Gibbons
Keith Michell
[original for screen]
James Fenimore Cooper
Season 2: 1972-1973
Vanity Fair
Cousin Bette
The Moonstone
Tom Brown's School Days
Point Counter Point
The Golden Bowl ▼
William Makepeace Thackery
Honore de Balzac
Wilkie Collins
Thomas Hughes
Aldous Huxley
Henry James
Season 3: 1973-1974
Clouds of Witness ▼ •
The Man Who Was Hunting Himself
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club •
The Little Farm
Upstairs, Downstairs, I •
The Edwardians
Dorothy L. Sayers
[original for the screen] N.J. Crisp
Dorothy L. Sayers
H.E. Bates
John Hawkesworth (original for tv)
Vita Sackville-West
Season 4: 1974-1975
Murder Must Advertise ▼ •
Upstairs, Downstairs, II •
Country Matters, I
Vienna 1900
The Nine Tailors •
Dorothy L. Sayers
John Hawkesworth (original for tv)
H.E. Bates
Arthur Schnitzler
Dorothy L. Sayers
Season 5: 1975-1976
Shoulder to Shoulder
Notorious Woman
Upstairs, Downstairs, III •
Cakes and Ale
Sunset Song
[documentary]
Harry W. Junkin
John Hawkesworth (original for tv)
W. Somerset Maugham
James Leslie Mitchell
Season 6: 1976-1977
Madame Bovary
How Green Was My Valley
Five Red Herrings •
Upstairs, Downstairs, IV •
Poldark, I ▼
Gustave Flaubert
Richard Llewellyn
Dorothy L. Sayers
John Hawkesworth (original for tv)
Winston Graham
Season 7: 1977-1978
Dickens of London
I, Claudius ▼
Anna Karenina
Our Mutual Friend
Poldark, II ▼
Wolf Mankowitz
Robert Graves
Leo Tolstoy
Charles Dickens
Winston Graham
Season 8: 1978-1979
The Mayor of Casterbridge ▼
The Duchess of Duke Street, I ▼
Country Matters, II
Lillie ▼
Thomas Hardy
Mollie Hardwick
H.E. Bates and A.E. Coppard
David Butler & John Gorrie [original for tv]
Season 9: 1979-1980
Kean
Love for Lydia
The Duchess of Duke Street, II ▼
My Son, My Son
Disraeli
Giles Playfair
H.E. Bates
Mollie Hardwick
Howard Spring
David Butler
Season 10: 1980-1981
Crime and Punishment •
Pride and Prejudice
Testament of Youth
Danger UXB ▼ •
Thérèse Raquin
10th Anniversary Favorites
The Golden Bowl
Cousin Bette
Upstairs, Downstairs
Sunset Song
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Jane Austen
Vera Brittain
John Hawkesworth [original for tv]
Èmile Zola
Season 11: 1981-1982
A Town Like Alice ▼
Edward and Mrs. Simpson •
The Flame Trees of Thika ▼
I Remember Nelson
Love in a Cold Climate
Flickers
Nevil Shute
Frances Donaldson
Elspeth Huxley
Hugh Whitemore
Nancy Mitford
Roy Clarke
Season 12: 1982-1983
To Serve Them All My Days
The Good Soldier
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years
On Approval
Drake's Venture
Private Schulz
Sons and Lovers
R.F. Delderfield
Ford Maddox Ford
Ferdinand Fairfax
Frederick Lonsdale [play]
[original for the screen]
[original for the screen] Jack Pulman
D.H. Lawrence
Season 13: 1983-1984
Pictures
The Citadel
The Irish RM, I
The Tale of Beatrix Potter
Nancy Astor
Roy Clarke
A.J. Cronin
Martin Ross & Edith Somerville
[original for the screen] John Hawkesworth
[original for the screen] Derek Marlowe
Season 14: 1984-1985
The Barchester Chronicles
The Jewel in the Crown ▼
All for Love
Strangers and Brothers
Anthony Trollope
Paul Scott
Tasha Tudor
C.P. Snow
Season 15: 1985-1986
The Last Place on Earth ▼
Bleak House
Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy
By the Sword Divided, I
The Irish RM, II
Roland Huntford
Charles Dickens
[original for the screen]
Mollie Hardwick
Martin Ross & Edith Somerville
Season 16: 1986-1987
Paradise Postponed
Goodbye Mr. Chips
Lost Empires
Silas Marner
Star Quality: Noel Coward Stories
The Death of the Heart
Love Song
John Mortimore
James Hilton
J.B. Priestley
George Eliot
Noel Coward
Elizabeth Bowen
[original for the screen]
Season 17: 1987-1988
The Bretts, I
Northanger Abbey ▼ •
Sorrell & Son
Fortunes of War •
Day After the Fair
David Copperfield
By the Sword Divided, II
[original for the screen] Harry Duffin
Jane Austen
Warwick Deeping
Olivia Manning
Thomas Hardy
Charles Dickens
Elizabeth Bowen
Season 18: 1988-1989
A Perfect Spy
Heaven on Earth
A Wreath of Roses
A Very British Coup
All Passion Spent
Talking Heads: Bed Among the Lentils
Christabel
The Charmer
The Bretts, II
John LeCarre
[original for the screen] Margaret Atwood
[original for the screen] Peter Prince
Chris Mullin
Vita Sackville-West
Alan Bennett
Christabel Bielenberg
Patrick Hamilton
Season 19: 1989-1990
And a Nightingale Sang
Precious Bane
Glory Enough for All
A Tale of Two Cities ▼ •
The Yellow Wallpaper
After the War
The Real Charlotte
The Dressmaker
Traffik
Piece of Cake
C.P. Taylor [play]
Mary Webb
[original for the screen] Grahame Woods
Charles Dickens
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Alice Adams
Martin Ross
Beryl Bainbridge
[original for the screen] Simon Moore
Derek Robinson
Season 20: 1990-1991
The Heat of the Day ▼
The Ginger Tree
Jeeves & Wooster, I ▼ •
Scoop
A Room of One's Own
20th Anniversary Favorites:
Upstairs, Downstairs
The Flame Trees of Thika
On Approval
I, Claudius
All For Love: A Dedicated Man
Elizabeth R
The Jewel in the Crown
The Tale of Beatrix Potter
The Six Wives of Henry VIII
Backstage at Masterpiece Theatre
House of Cards ▼
The Shiralee
Summer's Lease
Elizabeth Bowen
Oswald Wynd
P.G. Wodehouse
Virginia Woolf
Michael Dobbs
D’Arcy Niland
John Mortimore
Season 21: 1991-1992
A Murder of Quality •
Sleepers
She's Been Away
John LeCarre
[original for the screen]
[original for the screen] Stephen Poliakoff
Parnell and the Englishwoman
Titmuss Regained
Adam Bede
A Doll's House
Clarissa
Henry V
A Perfect Hero
Portrait of a Marriage
[original for the screen] Hugh Leonard
John Mortimore
George Eliot
Henrik Ibsen [play]
Samuel Richardson
William Shakespeare
Christopher Matthew
Nigel Nicholson
Season 22: 1992-1993
A Question of Attribution
The Best of Friends •
Memento Mori
Two Monologues:
In My Defense/A Chip in the Sugar
The Secret Agent
Jeeves & Wooster, II ▼ •
The Countess Alice
Impromptu
The Blackheath Poisonings •
Hedda Gabler
The Black Velvet Gown ▼
Calling the Shots
Doctor Finlay, I •
Alan Bennett [play]
Hugh Whitmore
Muriel Spark
Joseph Conrad
P.G. Wodehouse
[original for the screen] Allan Cubitt
[original for the screen] Sarah Kernochan
Julian Symons
Henrik Ibsen [play]
Catherine Cookson
[original for the screen] Laura Lamson
A.J. Cronin
Season 23: 1993-1994
Selected Exits
Jeeves & Wooster, III ▼ •
Where Angels Fear to Tread
Sharpe ▼
To Play the King ▼
Body & Soul ▼
Middlemarch ▼
A Foreign Field
The Best Intentions
Gwyn Thomas
P.G. Wodehouse
E.M. Forster
Bernard Cornwell
Michael Dobbs
Frank Conroy
George Eliot
[original for the screen] Roy Clarke
Ingmar Bergman
Season 24: 1994-1995
The Blue Boy
The Rector's Wife
Dandelion Dead
Doctor Finlay, II •
Jeeves & Wooster, IV ▼ •
The Cinder Path
Martin Chuzzlewit ▼
Hard Times ▼
Sharpe, II ▼
[original for the screen]
Joanna Trollope
[original for the screen] Michael Chaplin
A.J. Cronin
P.G. Wodehouse
Catherine Cookson
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
Bernard Cornwell
Season 25: 1995-1996
The Buccaneers ▼
The Great Kandinsky
Prime Suspect: The Lost Child
The Choir
The Politician's Wife
The Final Cut ▼
Prime Suspect: Inner Circles
Heavy Weather
The Peacock Spring
Bramwell, Series I
Prime Suspect: Scent of Darkness
Signs and Wonders
Interview Day
Edith Wharton
[original for the screen]
[original for the screen] Lynda LaPlante
Joanna Trollope
[original for the screen] Paula Milne
Michael Dobbs
[original for the screen] Lynda LaPlante
P.G. Wodehouse
Rumer Godden
[original for the screen]
[original for the screen] Lynda LaPlante
[original for the screen] Michael Eaton
[original for the screen] Jack Rosenthal
Season 26: 1996-1997
Moll Flanders ▼
Broken Glass
Bramwell, Series II
Nostromo ▼
A Royal Scandal ▼
Breaking the Code
Prime Suspect: Errors of Judgement
Persuasion ▼
Rebecca ▼ •
Daniel Defoe
Arthur Miller [play]
[original for the screen]
Joseph Conrad
[original for the screen]
Andrew Hodges
[original for the screen] Lynda LaPlante
Jane Austen
Daphne DuMaurier
Season 27: 1997-1998
The Mill on the Floss ▼
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
The Moonstone ▼
Bramwell, Series III
Rhodes
Reckless ▼ •
The Wingless Bird ▼
The Woman in White ▼ •
Painted Lady •
Far from the Madding Crowd ▼
George Eliot
Anne Bronte
Wilkie Collins
[original for the screen]
[original for the screen]
[original for the screen]
Catherine Cookson
Wilkie Collins
[original for the screen]
Thomas Hardy
Season 28: 1998-1999
King Lear ▼ •
Wuthering Heights ▼
A Respectable Trade
The Unknown Soldier ▼
The Prince of Hearts
Our Mutual Friend ▼
Bramwell, Series IV
Cider with Rosie ▼
William Shakespeare (play)
Emily Bronte
Philippa Gregory
Peter Barwood [original for the screen]
[original for the screen] Lee Hall
Charles Dickens
[original for the screen]
Laurie Lee [memoirs]
Reckless: The Sequel ▼ •
Frenchman's Creek ▼
Great Expectations ▼ •
Goodnight Mr. Tom ▼
[original for the screen]
Daphne DuMaurier
Charles Dickens
Michelle Magorian
Season 29: 1999-2000
A Rather English Marriage ▼
Aristocrats ▼
Lost for Words ▼
Shooting the Past ▼
Bramwell, Series V
Madame Bovary ▼
All the King's Men ▼
The Turn of the Screw ▼ •
David Copperfield ▼ •
Seeing Red
Monsignor Renard
Angela Lambert
Stella Tillyard
Deric Longden
[original for the screen] Stephen Poliakoff
[original for the screen]
Gustav Flaubert
Robert Penn Warren
Henry James
Charles Dickens
Coral Atkins
[original for the screen] Russell Lewis
Season 30: 2000-2001
Oliver Twist ▼ •
Cora Unashamed ▼ •
Her Majesty Mrs. Brown
The Railway Children ▼ •
Stiff Upper Lips
The American ▼ •
Bramwell, Series VI
Anna Karenina ▼
Wives and Daughters ▼
The Song of the Lark ▼
Take a Girl Like You
Talking Heads 2: Miss Fozzard Finds Her Feet
Charles Dickens
Langston Hughes (short story)
E. Nesbit
Henry James
[original for the screen]
Leo Tolstoy
Elizabeth Gaskell
Willa Cather
Kingsley Amis
Alan Bennett [original for the screen]
Season 31: 2001 - 2002
The Merchant of Venice
The Ponder Heart ▼
The Cazalets ▼
My Uncle Silas ▼
The Murder of Stephen Lawrence ▼
Othello
Bertie & Elizabeth
Love in a Cold Climate
Lucky Jim
A Death in the Family ▼ •
The Way We Live Now
Innocents
The Road from Coorain ▼
William Shakespeare [play]
Eudora Welty
Elizabeth Jane Howard
H.E. Bates
[original for the screen] Paul Greenglass
William Shakespeare (play)
[original for the screen]
Nancy Mitford
Kingsley Amis
James Agee
Anthony Trollope
Jill Ker Conway
Season 32: 2002 - 2003
Almost a Woman ▼
The Forsyte Saga ▼ •
My Uncle Silas II
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Me & Mrs. Jones ▼
Foyle's War •
Daniel Deronda
The Jury
White Teeth
•
Esmerelda Santiago
John Galsworthy
H.E. Bates
Arthur Conan Doyle
[original for the screen] Calemb Ranson
[original for the screen] Anthony Horowitz
George Eliot
Peter Morgan [original for the screen]
Zadie Smith
Season 33: 2003 - 2004
Our Town ▼
Warrior Queen •
Goodbye, Mr. Chips •
Doctor Zhivago ▼ •
The Forsyte Saga, Series II ▼
Prime Suspect 6
Thornton Wilder [play]
[original for the screen] Andrew Davies
James Hilton
Boris Pasternak
John Galsworthy
[original for the screen] (Lynda LaPlante)
Season 34: 2004 - 2005
The Lost Prince
Talking Heads: The Hand of God
Henry VIII
Pollyanna •
He Knew He Was Right
Island at War •
[original for the screen]
Alan Bennett [original for the screen]
William Shakespeare [play]
Eleanot Hodgman Porter
Anthony Trollope
Stephen Mallatratt
Season 35: 2005 - 2006
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking
Kidnapped
The Virgin Queen
Arthur Conan Doyle
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