The BBC Television Shakespeare - Season 1 Episode 35 Much Ado About Nothing
Claudio and Benedick come home from the wars, having fought under Don Pedro, Prince of Aragon, to suppress a rebellion by his weird brother, Don John. Leonato, Governor of Messina, welcomes Claudio and Benedick into his house. Claudio woos Hero, Leonato's daughter, while Benedick quips and quarrels with Beatrice, Hero's cousin. Claudio and Hero get engaged to marry and try to trick Benedick and Beatrice into also falling in love. Don John sets out to make mischief and persuades Claudio and Don Pedro that Hero is a scarlet woman. Claudio denounces Hero in front of her family and refuses to marry her, Hero faints. Friar Francis helpfully suggests that Hero be said to have died until her name can be cleared.Left alone in the church, Benedick and Beatrice exchange vows of love and Beatrice gets Benedick to promise he will kill Claudio for the harm he has done Hero. A duel is planned, but before it can take place Don John's dastardly plot is uncovered and Hero is restored to favour, then to
First Air Date: Dec 03, 1978
Last Air date: Apr 27, 1985
Season: 7 Season
Episode: 68 Episode
Runtime: 150 minutes
IMDb: 5.20/10 by 5.00 users
Popularity: 36.375
Language: English
Episode
Romeo and Juliet
King Richard the Second
As You Like It
Julius Caesar
Measure For Measure
King Henry the Eighth
King Henry the Fourth, Part I
King Henry the Fourth, Part II
King Henry the Fifth
Twelfth Night, or, What You Will
The Tempest
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
The Taming of the Shrew
The Merchant of Venice
All's Well That Ends Well
The Winter's Tale
Timon of Athens
Antony and Cleopatra
Othello
Troilus and Cressida
A Midsummer Night's Dream
King Lear
The Merry Wives of Windsor
King Henry the Sixth, Part I
King Henry the Sixth, Part II
King Henry the Sixth, Part III
The Tragedy of King Richard the Third
Cymbeline
Macbeth
The Comedy of Errors
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Tragedy of Coriolanus
The Life and Death of King John
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Much Ado About Nothing
Love's Labour's Lost
Titus Andronicus
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