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  • Macbeth (1996 Television)

    Series
    Shakespeare Shorts

    Last episode of a five-part schools programme series that attempts to make Shakespeare accessible to children by having well-known actors comment on and perform key scenes from Shakespeare’s plays which...

  • Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991 Film)

    Series
    Star Trek
    Director
    Nicholas Meyer
    Producer
    Gene Roddenberry; Leonard Nimoy; Ralph Winter; Steven-Charles Jaffe

    Final Star Trek feature film featuring the cast of the original science fiction series. In this episode the aging crew must stop a plot to prevent a peace treaty between the Klingon Empire and the United...

  • Defector, The (1990 Television)

    Series
    Star Trek: The Next Generation
    Director
    Robert Scheerer
    Producer
    Gene Roddenberry

    This episode about a defecting Romulan General opens with the U.S.S. Enterprise’s Lt. commander Data performing the part of King Henry V on the holodeck. Captain Jean-Luc Picard observes Commander...

  • King Lear (1987 Film)

    Director
    Jean-Luc Godard
    Producer
    Menahem Golan; Yoram Globus

    Feature film version of the play. Widely criticised and a commercial failure, the film was received as an interesting deconstruction or completely unintelligible according to taste. The film makes the...

  • King Real and the Hoodlums (1983 Film, Video)

    Director
    John Fox; Paul Haywood

    A musical grotesquerie based on the legend of King Lear. King Real lives in a nuclear submobile in which outrageous and horrific scenes of black comedy build up. A power struggle between the King and his...

  • Catspaw (1967 Television)

    Series
    Star Trek
    Director
    Joseph Pevney
    Producer
    Gene L. Coon

    This episode (30) of the original Star Trek series incorporates plot elements from Macbeth. The crew of the USS Enterprise beams down to the surface of the planet Pyris VII. Once on the foggy ground, they...

  • Conscience of the King, The (1966 Television)

    Series
    Star Trek
    Director
    Gerd Oswald
    Producer
    Gene Roddenberry; Gene L. Coon

    This episode of the original Star Trek series not only takes its title from Hamlet (II.ii.606) but also incorporates plot elements from Shakespeare’s play, or rather plays: an ‘old-fashioned’...

  • Bellero Shield, The (1964 Television)

    Series
    Outer Limits, The
    Director
    John Brahm

    US cult science fiction drama series. In this episode Richard Bellero’s experiments with a laser-beam gun capture a traveler from a "world" of light. This "laser creature" has the power to, in an...

  • Forbidden Planet (1956 Film, Video)

    Director
    Fred Wilcox
    Producer
    Nicholas Nayfack

    Science fiction story with a plot derived from The Tempest. In the year 2257, a distant star has three inhabitants - Professor Morbius (Prospero), his daughter Altaira (Miranda), and Robby the Robot (Ariel)....

  • Macbeth (1951 Television)

    Series
    Sure As Fate
    Director
    Yul Brynner
    Producer
    Peter Frye

    US anthology drama series directed by Yul Brynner and hosted by Francis L. Sullivan. John Carradine and Evelyn Anderson are the Macbeths. The production was set in the future; the actors wore leather jackets...