William Shakespeare's timeless tragedy about political treachery and assassination is presented as part of the "Biography" series,

Julius Caesar

Alan Bridges

William Shakespeare

Season 6

Ludwig Van Beethoven

Helen Hayes recreates some of her most famous stage roles, such as Mary Stuart in "Mary of Scotland", Queen Victoria in "Victoria Regina", Nora Melody in "A Touch of the Poet" and Grandma in "The American Dream".

Helen Hayes Remembers

George Eliot whose Victorian novels of social comment include "Silas Mar-ner" and "The Mill on the Floss." Is the subject of this drama, which focuses on the years of frustration in her late 20s and early 30s. Turning point in her life: literary critic George Henry Lewes becomes her common-law husband and persuades her to write fiction.

George Eliot

Ludwig Van Beethoven was considered an eccentric undisciplined musician in his youth. This drama centers on his struggle for recognition between the ages of 22 and 35,. the period when he began a romance that his career destroyed; came to terms with his loneliness and advancing deafness; and, finally won acclaim as a genius

NET Playhouse is an American dramatic television anthology series produced by National Educational Television. NET subsequently merged with WNDT Newark, New Jersey to form WNET and was superseded by the Public Broadcasting Service. American television anthology series of wide range of genres, from history and drama, to fantasy, and science fiction. Fiction novels, stories, stage plays, fairytales, and historic events are dramatized in each episode.

Julius Caesar

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