First broadcast

• The Forsyte Saga (1967 series)

Season 1 (1971–72)

Alistair Cooke's first season as host.

• Cold Comfort Farm
• Elizabeth R
• The First Churchills
• The Gambler
• Jude the Obscure
• The Last of the Mohicans
• Père Goriot
• The Possessed
• Resurrection
• The Six Wives of Henry VIII
• The Spoils of Poynton

Season 2 (1972–73)

• Cousin Bette
• The Golden Bowl
• The Moonstone
• Point Counter Point
• Tom Brown's School Days
• Vanity Fair

Season 3 (1973–74)

• Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey mystery)
• The Edwardians
• The Little Farm (Story by H. E. Bates, part of Country Matters series)
• The Man Who Was Hunting Himself
• The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (Lord Peter Wimsey mystery)
• Upstairs, Downstairs I-II (not all were shown)

Season 4 (1974–75)

• Country Matters I (Stories by H. E. Bates and A. E. Coppard)
• Murder Must Advertise (Lord Peter Wimsey mystery)
• The Nine Tailors (Lord Peter Wimsey mystery)
• Upstairs, Downstairs III
• Vienna 1900 (Stories by Arthur Schnitzler)

Season 5 (1975–76)

• Cakes and Ale
• Notorious Woman
• Shoulder to Shoulder
• Sunset Song
• Upstairs, Downstairs IV

Season 6 (1976–77)

• Five Red Herrings (Lord Peter Wimsey mystery)
• How Green Was My Valley
• Madame Bovary
• Poldark I
• Upstairs, Downstairs V

Season 7 (1977–78)

• Anna Karenina
• Dickens of London
• I, Claudius
• Our Mutual Friend
• Poldark II

Season 8 (1978–79)

• Country Matters II (Stories by H. E. Bates and A. E. Coppard)
• The Duchess of Duke Street I
• Lillie
• The Mayor of Casterbridge

Season 9 (1979–1980)

• Disraeli: Portrait of a Romantic
• The Duchess of Duke Street II
• Kean (play)
• Love for Lydia
• My Son, My Son (From a novel by Howard Spring)

Season 10 (1980–81)

In 1980, the show celebrated its 10th anniversary, and mysteries were moved to a separate program Mystery!.

• Crime and Punishment
• Danger UXB
• Pride and Prejudice
• 10th Anniversary Favorites
• Testament of Youth
• Thérèse Raquin

Season 11 (1981–82)

• Edward & Mrs. Simpson
• The Flame Trees of Thika
• Flickers
• I Remember Nelson
• Love in a Cold Climate
• A Town Like Alice (Australian, not British)

Season 12 (1982–83)

• Drake's Venture
• The Good Soldier
• On Approval (play)
• Private Schulz
• Sons and Lovers
• To Serve Them All My Days
• Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years

Season 13 (1983–84)

• The Citadel
• The Irish R.M. I
• Nancy Astor
• Pictures
• The Tale of Beatrix Potter

Season 14 (1984–85)

• All for Love
  • A Dedicated Man by Elizabeth Taylor
  • Mona by Francis King
  • L'Elegance by Rumer Godden
  • A Bit Of Singing and Dancing by Susan Hill
• The Barchester Chronicles
• The Jewel in the Crown
• Strangers and Brothers

Season 15 (1985–86)

• Bleak House
• By the Sword Divided I
• The Irish R.M. II
• The Last Place on Earth
• Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy

Season 16 (1986–87)

• The Death of the Heart
• Goodbye, Mr. Chips
• Lost Empires
• Love Song (From story Old Love)
• Paradise Postponed
• Silas Marner
• Star Quality: Noël Coward Stories
  • Star Quality
  • Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill
  • Me and the Girls
  • Mrs. Capper's Birthday
  • Bon Voyage

Season 17 (1987–88)

• The Bretts I
• By the Sword Divided II
• David Copperfield
• Day After the Fair
• Fortunes of War
• Northanger Abbey
• Sorrell & Son

Season 18 (1988–89)

• All Passion Spent
• The Bretts II
• The Charmer
• Christabel
• Heaven on Earth
• A Perfect Spy
• Talking Heads: Bed Among the Lentils
• A Very British Coup
• A Wreath of Roses

Season 19 (1989–1990)

• After the War
• And a Nightingale Sang
• The Dressmaker
• Glory Enough for All
• Piece of Cake
• Precious Bane
• The Real Charlotte
• A Tale of Two Cities
• Traffik
• The Yellow Wallpaper

Season 20 (1990–91)

• Backstage at Masterpiece Theatre
• The Ginger Tree
• The Heat of the Day
• House of Cards
• Jeeves & Wooster I
• A Room of One's Own
• Scoop
• The Shiralee
• Summer's Lease
• 20th Anniversary Favorites

Season 21 (1991–92)

Alistair Cooke's final season as host.

• Adam Bede (episode 3.10 of Screen One)
• Clarissa
• Doll's House, A
• Henry V
• A Murder of Quality
• Parnell and the Englishwoman
• Perfect Hero, A
• Portrait of a Marriage
• She's Been Away
• Sleepers
• Titmuss Regained

Season 22 (1992–93)

Russell Baker's first season as host.

• Best of Friends, The
• Black Velvet Gown, The
• Blackheath Poisonings, The
• Calling the Shots
• Countess Alice, The
• Doctor Finlay I
• Hedda Gabler
• Impromptu
• Jeeves & Wooster II
• Memento Mori
• Question of Attribution, A
• Secret Agent, The
• Two Monologues: In My Defense, A Chip in the Sugar

Season 23 (1993–94)

• Best Intentions, The
• Body & Soul
• Foreign Field, A
• Jeeves & Wooster III
• Middlemarch
• Selected Exits
• Sharpe – Eagle
• Sharpe – Rifles
• To Play the King (House Of Cards UK)
• Where Angels Fear to Tread

Season 24 (1994–95)

• The Blue Boy
• The Cinder Path
• Dandelion Dead
• Doctor Finlay II
• Hard Times
• Jeeves & Wooster IV
• Martin Chuzzlewit
• The Rector's Wife
• Sharpe II – Company
• Sharpe II – Enemy
• Sharpe II – Honour

Season 25 (1995–96)

• Bramwell, Series I
• Buccaneers, The
• Choir, The
• Final Cut, The (House of Cards UK)
• Great Kandinsky, The
• Heavy Weather
• Interview Day
• Peacock Spring, The
• Politician's Wife, The
• Prime Suspect 4
  • The Lost Child
  • Inner Circles
  • Scent of Darkness
• Signs and Wonders

Season 26 (1996–97)

Starting with this season, the show was renamed Mobil Masterpiece Theatre.

• Bramwell, Series II
• Breaking the Code
• Broken Glass
• Moll Flanders
• Nostromo
• Persuasion
• Prime Suspect 5: Errors of Judgement
• Rebecca
• Royal Scandal, A

Season 27 (1997–98)

• Bramwell, Series III
• Far from the Madding Crowd
• The Mill on the Floss
• The Moonstone
• Painted Lady
• Reckless
• Rhodes
• The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
• The Wingless Bird
• Woman in White, The

Season 28 (1998–99)

• Bramwell, Series IV
• Cider with Rosie
• Frenchman's Creek
• Goodnight Mr. Tom
• Great Expectations
• King Lear
• Much Ado About Nothing
• Our Mutual Friend
• The Prince of Hearts
• Reckless: The Sequel
• A Respectable Trade
• The Unknown Soldier
• Wuthering Heights

Season 29 (1999–2000)

Starting with this season, the show was renamed ExxonMobil Masterpiece Theatre, and ExxonMobil took over sponsorship.

• All the King's Men
• Aristocrats
• Bramwell, Series V
• David Copperfield
• Lost for Words
• Madame Bovary (February 6, 2000 & 13)
• Monsignor Renard
• A Rather English Marriage (October 3, 1999)
• Seeing Red
• Shooting the Past (November 21-December 5, 1999)
• The Turn of the Screw

Season 30 (2000–01)

Starting with this season, the show celebrated its 30th anniversary, and produced a spinoff called The American Collection.

• The American
• Anna Karenina
• Bramwell, Series VI
• Cora Unashamed
• Her Majesty, Mrs. Brown
• Oliver Twist
• The Railway Children
• The Song of the Lark
• Stiff Upper Lips
• Take a Girl Like You
• Talking Heads 2: Miss Fozzard Finds Her Feet
• Wives and Daughters

Season 31 (2001–02)

• Bertie & Elizabeth
• The Cazalets
• A Death in the Family
• Innocents
• Love in a Cold Climate
• Lucky Jim
• The Merchant of Venice
• The Murder of Stephen Lawrence
• My Uncle Silas
• Othello
• The Ponder Heart
• The Road from Coorain
• The Way We Live Now

Season 32 (2002–03)

• Almost a Woman
• Daniel Deronda
• The Forsyte Saga
• Foyle's War
• The Hound of the Baskervilles
• The Jury
• Me & Mrs. Jones
• My Uncle Silas II
• White Teeth

Season 33 (2003–04)

Russell Baker's final season as host.

• Doctor Zhivago
• The Forsyte Saga, Series II
• Goodbye, Mr. Chips
• Our Town
• Prime Suspect 6: The Last Witness
• Warrior Queen

Season 34 (2004–05)

Starting with this season, the show's titling reverted to Masterpiece Theatre, and the show began airing without a host.

• He Knew He Was Right
• Henry VIII
• Island at War
• The Lost Prince
• Pollyanna
• Talking Heads: The Hand of God

Season 35 (2005–06)

• Bleak House
• Carrie's War
• Kidnapped
• My Family and Other Animals
• Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking
• Under the Greenwood Tree
• The Virgin Queen

Season 36 (2006–07)

• The Best of Masterpiece Theatre
• Casanova
• Dracula (February 11)
• Jane Eyre (January 21 and 28)
• Prime Suspect 7 – The Final Act
• The Sally Lockhart Mysteries: The Ruby in the Smoke
• Sharpe III – Gold
• Sharpe III – Battle
• Sharpe III – Sword
• Sharpe III – Regiment
• Sharpe III – Siege
• Sharpe III – Mission
• Sharpe III – Revenge
• Sharpe III – Justice
• Sharpe III – Waterloo
• The Secret Life of Mrs Beeton
• To the Ends of the Earth
• The Wind in the Willows

Season 37 (2007-08) (final season)

• The Amazing Mrs Pritchard