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Season 10

9 episodes · Sep 8, 1974

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  • S10E1

    The Linden Tree

    Sep 8, 1974

    In 1947 England, in the home of Professor Robert Linden, chair of modern history at the provincial University of Burmanley, rationing and austerity seem to have fostered opportunism, escapism and confrontation within the Linden family, gathered to celebrate Robert's 65th birthday and each of whom is struggling with their own crises.

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  • S10E2

    Electra

    Oct 24, 1974

    In the city of Mycenae, a few years after the Trojan War, a bitter struggle for justice is undertaken by Electra and her brother Orestes for the murder of their father Agamemnon by Clytemnestra and their stepfather Aegisthus.

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  • S10E3

    The Wood Demon

    Oct 17, 1974110m

    A luncheon party gathers to celebrate a wealthy unmarried man's birthday; his sister hopes he'll marry Sonya, the daughter of a selfish gout-ridden old professor who makes life Hell for his son George and his young wife, Helen.

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  • S10E4

    Robinson Crusoe

    Nov 29, 1974120m

    An English slave trader is marooned on a remote tropical island, forced to fend for himself and deal with crushing loneliness.

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  • S10E5

    The Apple Cart

    Jan 19, 1975115m

    King Magnus's position as monarch is in danger – can he 'upset the apple cart' and preserve his throne?

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  • S10E6

    The School for Scandal

    Feb 16, 1975

    Scandalmonger Lady Sneerwell controls a nest of gossipy vipers, and young Lady Teazle, bored by her elderly husband Sir Peter, has been lured into the circle too.

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  • S10E7

    King Lear

    Mar 23, 1975

    An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.

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  • S10E8

    Strife

    May 18, 1975

    A personal dispute between a union leader and a management leader causes chaos for workers at a troublesome tin mining company.

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  • S10E10

    The Shadow of a Gunman

    Apr 20, 1975
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