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Season 9

9 episodes · Sep 16, 1973

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  • S9E1

    The Love Girl and the Innocent

    Sep 16, 1973127m

    Nemov is an honest man serving a term of 10 years for violations of Article 58. Nemov falls in love with Lyuba, who is having sex with the camp doctor Mereshchun, in exchange for better food and living conditions.

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  • S9E2

    The Common

    Oct 27, 1973

    An exploration of the relationship between two couples from different social classes: one wealthy and Conservative, one poor and socialist.

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  • S9E3

    The Recruiting Officer

    Oct 18, 1973

    Scoundrels are put on notice and women (literally) wear the pants in this uproarious comedy. Recruiting officers travel from port to port wooing men into service at sea, and women into their beds. Two such men, Worthy and Plume, land in Shrewsbury each in love with a woman who lives there.

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  • Pygmalion
    S9E4

    Pygmalion

    Dec 16, 1973120m

    When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet. Eliza moves into Higgins's home and begins her rigorous training after the professor comes to a financial agreement with her dustman father, Alfred. But the plucky young woman is not the only one undergoing a transformation.

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  • The Changeling
    S9E5

    The Changeling

    Jan 20, 1974103m

    A woman falls in love with a sea captain, and plots to kill her fiance.

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  • S9E6

    The Importance of Being Earnest

    Feb 17, 1974100m

    Two young gentlemen living in 1890s England use the same pseudonym ('Ernest') on the sly, which is fine until they both fall in love with women using that name, which leads to a comedy of mistaken identities.

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  • S9E7

    The Deep Blue Sea

    Mar 17, 1974

    A woman unhappy in her passionless marriage leaves her husband for a younger and more ardent lover.

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  • S9E8

    The Skin Game

    May 19, 1974

    The rivalry between a wealthy businessman and his lower-class, self-made rival gets very personal indeed.

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  • S9E10

    Mrs. Warren's Profession

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