The BBC Television Shakespeare
-Season 2
Episodes
1. The First Part of King Henry the Fourth with the Life and Death of Henry Surnamed Hotspur
Dec 9, 1979
Televisation of one of Shakespeare's most popular plays, featuring the opportunistic miscreant, Sir John Falstaff. Second play in a tetralogy of history plays by William Shakespeare, along with Richard II, Henry IV, Part II, and Henry V.
2. The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth containing his Death: and the Coronation of King Henry the Fift
Dec 16, 1979
Classic play by William Shakespeare, starring Jon Finch and Anthony Quayle. This is the third play in a tetralogy of history plays by William Shakespeare, along with Richard II, Henry IV, Part I, and Henry V.
3. The Life of Henry the Fift
Dec 23, 1979
Classic play by William Shakespeare about Henry V, the monarch he admired above all others. Part of a tetralogy of history plays by Shakespeare, along with Richard II, Henry IV, Part I, and Henry IV, Part II.
4. Twelfth Night
Jan 6, 1980
BBC televisation of the classic comedy of mistaken identities by William Shakespeare.
5. The Tempest
Feb 27, 1980
William Shakespeare's swansong play about the nature of revenge, reconciliation and forgiveness.
6. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
May 25, 1980
Shakespeare's classic tale of betrayal, murder and revenge, set in Elsinore Castle in Denmark.