Season 9

E1. The Love Girl and the Innocent

Sep 16, 1973 · 127m

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.

E2. The Common

Oct 27, 1973 · 90m

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

E3. The Recruiting Officer

Oct 18, 1973 · 90m

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.

E4. Pygmalion

Dec 16, 1973 · 120m

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.

E5. The Changeling

Jan 20, 1974 · 103m

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

E6. The Importance of Being Earnest

Feb 17, 1974 · 100m

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.

E7. The Deep Blue Sea

Mar 17, 1974 · 90m

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

E8. The Skin Game

May 19, 1974 · 90m

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

E10. Mrs. Warren's Profession

Oct 3, 1972 · 90m

A very proper young woman is horrified to discover not only that her mother once worked as a prostitute in order to support her, but that she later became a whorehouse madam rather than give up the business.