Season 1
34 episodes · Sep 30, 1964
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- S1E1
Catch As Catch Can
Sep 30, 196475mBased on the play "La foire d'empoigne" by Jean Anouilh.
- S1E3
In Camera
Nov 4, 196485mThree people find themselves sharing a room with no way out. As they talk, the nature of the room and how they came to be there is gradually revealed.
- S1E4
Pale Horse, Pale Rider
Nov 11, 196485mA young woman's dreams of death but The Pale Rider fills her dreams along with her lover.
- S1E5
The Big Breaker
Nov 18, 196490mA lodger, recuperating from a heart attack, sets his sights on his landlady.
- S1E6
Mr. Douglas
Nov 25, 196470mCoronation Day, 1761: A merchant entertains a guest with an extraordinary secret.
- S1E7
Malatesta
Dec 2, 196495mSigismondo Malatesta is a condottiere, a mercenary for hire and patron of the arts.
- S1E8
The July Plot
Dec 9, 196495mDramatisation of the failed plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler in July 1944 by a conspiracy of high-ranking German Army officers.
- S1E9
First Love
Dec 16, 196485mA study of a boy's passion for an older girl as he discovers the difference between infatuation and true love.
- S1E10
Tap on the Shoulder
Jan 6, 196575mArchibald Cooper is a London gangster who is living the life of a country squire while running a criminal empire. He learns that he's getting a knighthood so invites some old associates to country house unaware they are planning a robbery.
- S1E11
Sir Jocelyn, the Minister Would Like a Word...
Jan 13, 196575mA group of politicians and university dons argue over whether a new university should have a chapel or a state-of-the-art lecture hall.
- S1E13
Fable
Jan 27, 196575mIn a parallel totalitarian Great Britain, those in authority are Black people, and white people are their social underdogs — a reversal of the situation in then-contemporary apartheid South Africa.
- S1E14
Dan, Dan the Charity Man
Feb 3, 196575mDan Sankey, the charity knocker, has become a national celebrity but who is the man behind the image?
- S1E15
Ashes to Ashes
Feb 10, 196575mBarbara is an assertive, clever, liberated woman, her own boss. Who'd think she could be swept off her feet by a handsome stranger for whom she'd give up her career, London, everything? Especially as her new husband maybe wants to kill her.
- S1E16
Wear a Very Big Hat
Feb 17, 196575mA young couple celebrate their wedding anniversary with a night on the town.
- S1E17
The Confidence Course
Feb 24, 196561mA trio of swindlers advertise a self-assertiveness seminar, lure a dozen victims to a hotel and attempt to persuade them to enroll in their course. However, a man claiming to be 18th century critic-essayist William Hazlitt attacks the consumerist values outlined by the motivational speaker.
- S1E18
Campaign for One
Mar 3, 196575mAstronaut Osborne is stuck in a malfunctioning capsule. As he goes round and round the Earth, he starts telling jokes and secrets. When the time comes to bring him down to Earth, he can't face it as he feels like a sexual failure.
- S1E19
Horror of Darkness
Mar 10, 196570mPeter and Cathy are initially delighted to see their charismatic, subtly domineering friend Robin. But he outstays his welcome, and that's to say the least of it.
- S1E20
A Little Temptation
Mar 17, 196575mA writer is having an affair with a married woman and gets embroiled with the other women in her life.
- S1E22
Cat's Cradle
Mar 31, 196575mA couple move to the country, but the wife feels isolated and finds companionship with her cat.
- S1E23
Three Clear Sundays
Apr 7, 196575mA dull witted young labourer from a criminal family is sent to gaol for a minor crime, leaving his pregnant girlfriend unmarried. But while there he is talked into attacking a guard, who later dies, so he's then sentenced to hang for his crime, despite a protest and newspaper campaign for leniency.
- S1E24
The Interior Decorator
Apr 14, 196575mAn interior decorator takes a millionaire's wife on a guided tour of her new home.
- S1E26
The Good Shoe Maker and the Poor Fish Peddler
Apr 28, 196575mAn account of the shocking Sacco-Vanzetti case of the 1920s, where two working-class Italian immigrants to the US were executed after seven years on Death Row.
- S1E27
Cemented with Love
May 5, 196575mIt is general election night in a constituency in Northern Ireland.
- S1E28
A Knight in Tarnished Armour
May 12, 196575mTom is a working class Scots teenager, but he dreams of much more.
- S1E29
For the West
May 26, 196575mWhite mercenary forces prepare to attack rebel, pro-Lumumbist troops in the Congo
- S1E30
And Did Those Feet?
Jun 2, 196575mLord Fountain hates his illegitimate twin boys as he does not seem to be able to produce legitimate heirs.
- S1E31
The Man Without Papers
Jun 9, 196575mYears ago, it was Roscoe who kept his friends alive in a Korean prison camp. Now, he's penniless and without papers in London - will his now-prosperous former friends help him?
- S1E32
The Pistol
Jun 16, 196575mA young private with a pistol deals with the aftershock of the attack on Pearl Harbor.