Season
- Season 1 1978-12-03
Episode
- Episode 1: Romeo & Juliet
- Episode 2: King Richard the Second
- Episode 3: As You Like It
- Episode 4: Julius Caesar
- Episode 5: Measure for Measure
- Episode 6: The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight
- Episode 7: The First Part of King Henry the Fourth with the Life and Death of Henry Surnamed Hotspur
- Episode 8: The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth containing his Death: and the Coronation of King Henry the Fift
- Episode 9: The Life of Henry the Fift
- Episode 10: Twelfth Night
- Episode 11: The Tempest
- Episode 12: Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
- Episode 13: The Taming of the Shrew
- Episode 14: The Merchant of Venice
- Episode 15: All's Well That Ends Well
- Episode 16: The Winter's Tale
- Episode 17: Timon of Athens
- Episode 18: Antony and Cleopatra
- Episode 19: Othello
- Episode 20: Troilus and Cressida
- Episode 21: A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Episode 22: King Lear
- Episode 23: The Merry Wives of Windsor
- Episode 24: The First Part of Henry the Sixt
- Episode 25: The Second Part of Henry the Sixt
- Episode 26: The Third Part of Henry the Sixt
- Episode 27: The Tragedy of Richard III
- Episode 28: Cymbeline
- Episode 29: Macbeth
- Episode 30: The Comedy of Errors
- Episode 31: The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Episode 32: The Tragedy of Coriolanus
- Episode 33: The Life & Death of King John
- Episode 34: Pericles, Prince of Tyre
- Episode 35: Much Ado About Nothing
- Episode 36: Love's Labour's Lost
- Episode 37: Titus Andronicus
The BBC Television Shakespeare
The BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, created by Cedric Messina and produced by BBC Television. It was transmitted in the UK from 3 December 1978 to 27 April 1985 and spanned seven series. Development of the series began in 1975 when Messina saw that Glamis Castle would make a perfect location for an adaptation of Shakespeare's play As You Like It. On returning to London, he envisioned an entire series devoted exclusively to the dramatic works of Shakespeare. After encountering numerous problems trying to produce the series, Messina eventually pitched the idea to the BBC’s departmental heads and the series was greenlighted. The series as a whole received generally negative reviews from critics.
