Upstart Crow

2016–2020

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Seasons

Season 1

  • E0 Unbroadcast Pilot
  • E1 Star Crossed Lovers 2016-05-09 · 30m Episode one sees Will struggle to find inspiration for Romeo while having to deal with an angry actor, a very annoying house-guest and his family’s not terribly helpful script suggestions.
  • E2 The Play's the Thing 2016-05-16 · 30m Just when Will’s controversial new play is about to be presented to Queen Elizabeth, it goes missing. As the finger of suspicion points to his best friend Marlowe, can Will come up with a way to recover his stolen masterpiece? Given its politically sensitive content, is he really wise to want it back?
  • E3 The Apparel Proclaims the Man 2016-05-23 · 30m Will hopes to move up in the world when he is invited to a high-society party hosted by Lord Southampton, but is unsure what a poorly-educated country boy should wear to one of London's most upmarket events. The playwright's rival Sir Robert Greene offers him some fashion tips, but is it a double bluff, a triple bluff, or something even more fiendish?
  • E4 Love Is Not Love 2016-05-30 · 30m Will has completed his final sonnet and senses literary immortality just around the corner. But will the fair youth and the dark lady like them as much as he hopes? And is Anne likely to be impressed that her husband’s 154 hot new love poems don’t contain much about her?
  • E5 What Bloody Man Is That? 2016-06-06 · 30m The plague leads Will and his friends to escape to the family home in Stratford. On the way, they meet three witches who have some surprising predictions to make about Will’s future, leading to a very serious case of house envy.
  • E6 The Quality of Mercy 2016-06-13 · 30m When Will's savings go missing, he is forced to make an unusual bargain with his rival. Kate's frustration with the lack of roles for women leads her to make a dramatic intervention.

Season 2

  • E1 The Green-Eyed Monster 2017-09-11 · 30m When a dashing African Prince comes to town, Will decides to befriend him.
  • E2 I Know Thee Not, Old Man 2017-09-18 · 30m When his old teacher invites himself to stay, Will must confront some awful memories.
  • E3 I Did Adore a Twinkling Star 2017-09-25 · 30m Will has to write a romance set in an exotic foreign location Kate has fallen for Marlowe.
  • E4 Food of Love 2017-10-02 · 30m Will Shakespeare has invented an amazing new dramatic form: the greatest hits musical.
  • E5 Beware My Sting! 2017-10-09 · 30m The women in Will's life are not impressed with his play about a strong woman humiliated.
  • E6 Sweet Sorrow 2017-10-16 · 30m Will's finished Romeo and Juliet but now there's competition over who will play Juliet.
  • E7 A Christmas Crow

Season 3

  • E1 Lord, What Fools These Mortals Be! 2018-08-29 · 30m Will needs inspiration for his new play A Midsummer Night's Dream. Meanwhile how can he get hold of some love potion, and where is Bottom going to put that stuffed donkey head?
  • E2 Wild Laughter in the Throat of Death 2018-09-05 · 30m Will Shakespeare has been working on his masterpiece. His friends tell him it's his greatest comedy yet, but Will insists that Hamlet isn't actually meant to be funny.
  • E3 If You Prick Us, Do We Not Bleed? 2018-09-12 · 30m London is full of anti-immigrant rioting. Will looks forward to an age when such sentiments are long-gone, but in the meantime he and the players plan to do their bit to help those worse off than themselves with a fund-raising charity gala night. “Inflated Pig's Bladder Day” is a triumph.
  • E4 Sigh No More 2018-09-19 · 30m When Kate stands in for Sue at the masked ball she accidentally sets off a chain of events that leaves Sue humiliated by the other local teenagers and Will needs to come up with a ruse to turn the tables on the bullies. Meanwhile in all the confusion Hamnet has gone missing.
  • E5 The Most Unkindest Cut of All 2018-09-26 · 30m Will's troupe plot against each other, but his defusing of the situation helps give him a better idea for his new play about Julius Caesar.
  • E6 Go On and I Will Follow 2018-10-03 · 30m As Will wrestles with temptation a bigger threat to his family lurks in the wings.
  • E7 A Crow Christmas Carol

Season 4

  • E1 Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow: A Lockdown Christmas 1603