
An anthology series of television plays which aired on BBC1 from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually written for television, although adaptations from other sources also featured.
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Air Date: 1964-09-30
Based on the play "La foire d'empoigne" by Jean Anouilh.
Air Date: 1964-10-28
A soldier named Postnikov rescues a drowning man.
Air Date: 1964-11-04
Three people find themselves sharing a room with no way out. As they talk, the nature of the room and how they came t...
Air Date: 1964-11-11
A young woman's dreams of death but The Pale Rider fills her dreams along with her lover.
Air Date: 1964-11-18
A lodger, recuperating from a heart attack, sets his sights on his landlady.
Air Date: 1964-11-25
Coronation Day, 1761: A merchant entertains a guest with an extraordinary secret.
Air Date: 1964-12-02
Sigismondo Malatesta is a condottiere, a mercenary for hire and patron of the arts.
Air Date: 1964-12-09
Dramatisation of the failed plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler in July 1944 by a conspiracy of high-ranking German Army...
Air Date: 1964-12-16
A study of a boy's passion for an older girl as he discovers the difference between infatuation and true love.
Air Date: 1965-01-06
Archibald Cooper is a London gangster who is living the life of a country squire while running a criminal empire. He ...
Air Date: 1965-01-13
A group of politicians and university dons argue over whether a new university should have a chapel or a state-of-the...
Air Date: 1965-01-20
A tale of romance between two working class navvies.
Air Date: 1965-01-27
In a parallel totalitarian Great Britain, those in authority are Black people, and white people are their social unde...
Air Date: 1965-02-03
Dan Sankey, the charity knocker, has become a national celebrity but who is the man behind the image?
Air Date: 1965-02-10
Barbara is an assertive, clever, liberated woman, her own boss. Who'd think she could be swept off her feet by a hand...
Air Date: 1965-02-17
A young couple celebrate their wedding anniversary with a night on the town.
Air Date: 1965-02-24
A trio of swindlers advertise a self-assertiveness seminar, lure a dozen victims to a hotel and attempt to persuade t...
Air Date: 1965-03-03
Astronaut Osborne is stuck in a malfunctioning capsule. As he goes round and round the Earth, he starts telling jokes...
Air Date: 1965-03-10
Peter and Cathy are initially delighted to see their charismatic, subtly domineering friend Robin. But he outstays hi...
Air Date: 1965-03-17
A writer is having an affair with a married woman and gets embroiled with the other women in her life.
Air Date: 1965-03-24
A soldier faces a court-martial for killing his friend.
Air Date: 1965-03-31
A couple move to the country, but the wife feels isolated and finds companionship with her cat.
Air Date: 1965-04-07
A dull witted young labourer from a criminal family is sent to gaol for a minor crime, leaving his pregnant girlfrien...
Air Date: 1965-04-14
An interior decorator takes a millionaire's wife on a guided tour of her new home.
Air Date: 1965-04-21
A young couple go on a hitch-hiking tour of Europe.
Air Date: 1965-04-28
An account of the shocking Sacco-Vanzetti case of the 1920s, where two working-class Italian immigrants to the US wer...
Air Date: 1965-05-05
It is general election night in a constituency in Northern Ireland.
Air Date: 1965-05-12
Tom is a working class Scots teenager, but he dreams of much more.
Air Date: 1965-05-26
White mercenary forces prepare to attack rebel, pro-Lumumbist troops in the Congo
Air Date: 1965-06-02
Lord Fountain hates his illegitimate twin boys as he does not seem to be able to produce legitimate heirs.
Air Date: 1965-06-09
Years ago, it was Roscoe who kept his friends alive in a Korean prison camp. Now, he's penniless and without papers i...
Air Date: 1965-06-16
A young private with a pistol deals with the aftershock of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Air Date: 1965-06-23
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Air Date: 1965-06-30
Martin has a mid-life crisis.