"Macbeth" (1983)

Director:  Jack Gold [BBC]

This is staged on a set with basic spare scenery, and costumes set in the period of when the story takes place.

This Macbeth is a smidge more power-hungry.  Lady Macbeth shows more the fear of what her husband has become (a tyrant--as opposed to mad/crazy).  [In the scene where Macbeth turns a corner, he mimes his thoughts by absent-mindedly coming close to choking her.]  

This Macduff is wrought with grief and tears when he hears the news of his wife and kids.  Silent silhouettes of the witches/weird sisters repeat through the later parts of the play.
The ending leaves a visual cliff-hanger of the future tension between Fleance and Malcolm.


The scene where Siward hears of his son's death is included.

"Galactica 1980" (1980)

I have watched 6 of the 7 episodes that exist of this TV show (skim watched episode 7).  Kinda fun.  Was just what I was in the mood for.  Kent McCord (Adam-12)  :)   Definitely low-budget--you could see the fly wires for one of the moving-through-outer space scenes.  Still, the plot was nice--a little bit of humor without being ridiculous, a little bit of action without having a heart-attack about it.  I liked.  Too bad there's only 6 episodes.  [I don't count the 7th one.]  Ah, 1980s television.  :)