Season 2 (1979)
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1. The First Part of King Henry the Fourth with the Life and Death of Henry Surnamed Hotspur
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.
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2h 27min
December 9, 1979
2. The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth containing his Death: and the Coronation of King Henry the Fift
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.
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2h 30min
December 16, 1979
3. The Life of Henry the Fift
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.
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2h 43min
December 23, 1979
4. Twelfth Night
BBC televisation of the classic comedy of mistaken identities by William Shakespeare.
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2h 8min
January 6, 1980
5. The Tempest
William Shakespeare's swansong play about the nature of revenge, reconciliation and forgiveness.
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2h 4min
February 27, 1980
6. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
Shakespeare's classic tale of betrayal, murder and revenge, set in Elsinore Castle in Denmark.
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3h 34min
May 25, 1980