Se | Ep | Title | Author | Producer/ Director | Performers | UK Transmission date |
1 | 1 | Absolute Hell | Rodney Ackland | Anthony Page (d), Simon Curtis (p) | Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Ronald Pickup, Charles Gray, Anthony Calf | 5 October 1991[2] |
1 | 2 | Uncle Vanya | Anton Chekhov | Gregory Mosher (d), Simon Curtis (p) | David Warner, Ian Holm, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Ian Bannen, Roger Hammond | 12 October 1991 |
1 | 3 | Nona | Roberto Cossa (play), Michael Hastings (adaptation) | Simon Curtis (d/p) | Les Dawson, Liz Smith, Jim Broadbent, Timothy Spall, Jane Horrocks, Maurice Denham | 19 October 1991[3] |
1 | 4 | Old Times | Harold Pinter | Simon Curtis (d/p) | John Malkovich, Kate Nelligan, Miranda Richardson | 26 October 1991 |
1 | 5 | Top Girls | Caryl Churchill | Max Stafford-Clark (d), Simon Curtis (p) | Deborah Findlay, Beth Goddard, Lesley Manville | 2 November 1991 |
1 | 6 | The Trials of Oz | Geoffrey Robertson John Mortimer | Sheree Folkson (d), Simon Curtis (p) | Hugh Grant, Peter O'Brien, Kevin Allen Leslie Phillips, Nigel Hawthorne, Simon Callow, David Troughton, Alfred Molina, Nicholas Farrell, Nigel Planer, Lee Cornes | 9 November 1991 |
2 | 1 | Tales from Hollywood | Christopher Hampton | Howard Davies (d), Simon Curtis (p) | Jeremy Irons, Alec Guinness, Elizabeth McGovern, Sinéad Cusack Ian Thompson, George Raistrick, Jack Shepherd, Lynn Farleigh, Mike McShane, Iain Rattray | 19 October 1992 (U.S.) 14 November 1992 (UK) |
2 | 2 | A Doll's House | Henrik Ibsen | David Thacker, Simon Curtis | Juliet Stevenson, Trevor Eve, Geraldine James, Patrick Malahide, David Calder, Helen Blatch | 21 November 1992[4] |
2 | 3 | Roots | Arnold Wesker | Simon Curtis (d/p) | Jane Horrocks, Pam Ferris, Imelda Staunton, Christopher Eccleston, Timothy Spall | 28 November 1992 |
2 | 4 | After the Dance | Terence Rattigan | Stuart Burge (d), Simon Curtis (p) | Anton Rodgers, Gemma Jones, Imogen Stubbs, John Bird, Geoffrey Beevers | 5 December 1992 |
2 | 5 | Six Characters in Search of an Author | Luigi Pirandello | Bill Bryden (d), Simon Curtis (p) | Brian Cox, John Hurt, Tara Fitzgerald, Susan Fleetwood, Brian Glover, Steven Mackintosh | 12 December 1992 |
3 | 1 | The Maitlands | Robert MacKenzie | Lindsay Posner (d), Simon Curtis (p) | Eileen Atkins, Jennifer Ehle, Bill Nighy, Edward Fox, Samuel West | 13 November 1993 |
3 | 2 | Hedda Gabler | Henrik Ibsen | Deborah Warner (d), Simon Curtis (p) | Fiona Shaw, Nicholas Woodeson, Stephen Rea | 27 November 1993 |
3 | 3 | The Entertainer | John Osborne | Nicholas Renton (d), Simon Curtis (p) | Michael Gambon, Helen McCrory, Bill Owen, Billie Whitelaw | 4 December 1993 |
3 | 4 | The Changeling | Thomas Middleton and William Rowley Michael Hastings (adaptation) | Simon Curtis (p) | Bob Hoskins, Elizabeth McGovern, Hugh Grant, Leslie Phillips, Sean Pertwee | 11 December 1993 |
4 | 1 | Message for Posterity | Dennis Potter | David Jones (d), Simon Curtis (p) | John Neville, Eric Porter, Ronald Pickup, Sophie Thompson, Abigail Cruttenden, Annette Crosbie, Tony Haygarth, Patrick Godfrey, Nicholas Selby, Stephen Moore | 29 October 1994 |
4 | 2 | Measure for Measure | William Shakespeare | David Thacker (d) | Tom Wilkinson, Corin Redgrave, Juliet Aubrey, Ian Bannen, David Bradley, Geoffrey Beevers, Rob Edwards, Sue Johnston | 5 November 1994 |
4 | 3 | The Deep Blue Sea | Terence Rattigan | Karel Reisz (d) Simon Curtis (p) | Penelope Wilton, Ian Holm, Colin Firth, Stephen Tompkinson, Geraldine Somerville, Edward Tudor-Pole | 12 November 1994 |
4 | 4 | The Mother | Paddy Chayefsky | Simon Curtis (d/p) | Anne Bancroft, Katherine Borowitz, Joan Cusack | 19 November 1994 |
4 | 5 | Summer Day's Dream | J. B. Priestley | Christopher Morahan (d), Simon Curtis (p) | John Gielgud, Terence Rigby, Rosemary Harris, Mike McShane Vincent Wong | 26 November 1994 |
5 | 1 | Shadow of a Gunman | Sean O'Casey | Nye Heron | Kenneth Branagh, Stephen Rea, James Ellis | 7 October 1995 |
5 | 2 | The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd | D. H. Lawrence | Katie Mitchell (d) | Zoë Wanamaker, Stephen Dillane, Colin Firth, Brenda Bruce | 14 October 1995 |
5 | 3a | Landscape | Harold Pinter | Harold Pinter (d), Simon Curtis (p) | Ian Holm, Penelope Wilton | 21 October 1995 |
5 | 3b | Bed | Jim Cartwright | Steve Shill (d), Kevin Loader | Renée Asherson, Robin Bailey, June Brown, Maurice Denham, Richard E. Grant, Lionel Jeffries | 21 October 1995 |
5 | 4 | Henry IV (Pt 1 & Pt 2) | William Shakespeare (plays), John Caird (adaptation) | John Caird (d), Annie Castledine (p) | Ronald Pickup, John Woodvine, Peter Jeffrey, Joseph O'Conor, David Calder, Geoffrey Hutchings, Jane Horrocks, Elizabeth Spriggs, Peter-Hugo Daly, Paul Eddington, Clive Kneller, Toby Jones | 28 October 1995 |
5 | 5 | After Miss Julie | Patrick Marber, August Strindberg | Patrick Marber (d), Fiona Finlay | Geraldine Somerville, Phil Daniels, Kathy Burke | 4 November 1995 |
6 | 1 | Company | Stephen Sondheim | Sam Mendes (d), Simon Curtis (ex p) | Adrian Lester, Sheila Gish, Sophie Thompson | 1 March 1997 |
6 | 2 | My Night with Reg | Kevin Elyot | Roger Michell (d), Kevin Loader (p) | David Bamber, John Sessions, Anthony Calf, Kenneth MacDonald | 15 March 1997 |
6 | 3 | Richard II | William Shakespeare | Deborah Warner (d), John Wyver (p) | Fiona Shaw (as Richard II), Graham Crowden, Richard Bremmer, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Donald Sinden | 22 March 1997 |
6 | 4 | Broken Glass | Arthur Miller | David Thacker (d), Fiona Finlay (p) | Henry Goodman, Margot Leicester, Mandy Patinkin, Elizabeth McGovern, Ed Bishop | 29 March 1997 |
6 | 5 | Macbeth on the Estate | William Shakespeare, Penny Woolcock (adaptation) | Penny Woolcock (d), Alison Gilby (p) | James Frain, Susan Vidler, Ray Winstone | 5 April 1997 |
7 | 1 | King Lear | William Shakespeare | Richard Eyre (d), Sue Birtwistle, Joy Spink (p) | Ian Holm Timothy West, Amanda Redman, Michael Bryant | 21 March 1998 |