Direction: Jonathan Miller

Direction Jonathan Miller

Cast Michael Hordern · Ambrose Coghill · George Woodbridge · Nora Gordon

Synopsis Professor Parkins, travels to the eastern coast to look at an ancient site for a possible archaeological dig. Parkins does indeed investigate the site where he finds an old metal whistle buried in a patch of broken ground on which...

Direction Jonathan Miller

Cast Anne-Marie Mallik · Freda Dowie · Jo Maxwell Muller · Wilfrid Brambell

Synopsis Alice in Wonderland (1966) is a BBC television play based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. It was directed by Jonathan Miller, then most widely known for his appearance in the long-running satirical revue Beyond the Fringe. Miller's...

Direction Jonathan Miller

Cast John Shrapnel · Norman Rodway · Michael Kitchen · Michael Hordern

Synopsis King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the old man in return for favor, he banishes...

Direction Jonathan Miller · Zachary Russo

Synopsis Justice and mercy, while revealing the heavy toll our current system takes on incarcerated people and their families.

Direction Jonathan Miller

Cast John Fortune · John Bird · Tony Jay · David Kinsey

Synopsis Timon loves to give parties and objects to friends, but when he cannot pay his creditors, his "friends" refuse to help him, and he becomes a misanthropic hermit.

Direction Jonathan Miller

Cast Hayley Mills · Oliver Reed · Noel Harrison · John Bird

Synopsis Young Jenny heads to the South of England to start a new career as a school teacher. Even before she has had a chance to settle in she meets Patrick, one of the local "lads". Within a short time she...

Direction Jonathan Miller

Cast John Paul · Jonathan Adams · Jane Lapotaire · Colin Blakely

Synopsis Octavius Caesar (later renamed Augustus Caesar, son of the murdered Julius Caesar), Marc Antony, and Lepidus form the triumvirate, the three rulers of the Roman Empire. Antony, though married to Fulvia, spends his time in Egypt, living a life of...

Direction Jonathan Miller

Cast John Cleese · Sarah Badel · Simon Chandler · Anthony Pedley

Synopsis Baptista has two daughters: Kate and Bianca. Everyone wants to wed the fair Bianca, but nobody's much interested in problem child, Kate. Baptista declares that he won't give Bianca away in a marriage until he's found a husband for Kate,...

Direction Jonathan Miller

Cast Anthony Hopkins · Anthony Pedley · Bob Hoskins · Geoffrey Chater

Synopsis Iago and a comrade-in-arms are outside the Venice home of Desdemona's father, who does not yet know that she has eloped with Othello. Iago confides to his friend -- who had hoped to marry Desdemona -- that he serves Othello...

Direction Jonathan Miller

Cast Peter Gallagher · Jack Lemmon · Bethel Leslie · Jodie Lynne McClintock

Direction Jonathan Miller

Cast Charles Gray · Anton Lesser · Tony Steedman · Suzanne Burden

Synopsis The bitter Trojan War drags on – the Greeks blame Achilles’ apathy for low morale, while Troy’s hero Hector challenges one of the enemies to a personal duel. And after her father exchanges Cressida for a Trojan prisoner, the war...