Leo McKern

The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries.

Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.

A BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles. The series was transmitted from October 1965 to September 1983.

An anthology series of television plays which aired on BBC1 from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually written for television, although adaptations from other sources also featured.

ITV Playhouse is a British comedy-drama TV series that ran from 1967 to 1983, which featured contributions from playwrights such as Dennis Potter, Rhys Adrian and Alan Sharp. The series began in black and white, but was later shot in colour and was produced by various companies for the ITV network, a format that would inspire Dramarama. Actors appearing in the series included Leslie Anderson, Gwen Nelson, Ricky Alleyne, Pat Heywood, Michael Elphick, Ian Hendry, Edward Woodward, Margaret Lockwood, Jessie Matthews and Lloyd Peters.

Screen Two è stata una serie televisiva antologica britannica, prodotta dalla BBC e trasmessa su BBC2 dal 1985 al 1994. Dopo la fine di "Play for Today" della BBC, che andò in onda dal 1970 al 1984, al produttore Kenith Trodd fu chiesto di formulare una nuova serie di drammi televisivi autoconclusivi. Tuttavia, mentre lo stile di Play for Today si svolgeva per gran parte con riprese da studio, questa nuova serie è stata girata interamente in pellicola; fu quindi un tentativo da parte della BBC di ripetere il successo dei film televisivi di Channel 4, molti dei quali erano stati rilasciati nei cinema.

An anthology of short plays shown on BBC Television between 1965 and 1973, used in part at least as a training ground for new writers, on account of its short length, and which therefore attracted many writers who later became well known.

Anthology series of dramatic works.