Season 1
68 episodes · Jan 4, 1958
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- S1E2
S1.E2 ∙ The Distaff Side
Jan 11, 1958An upper middle-class family is ruled by the ancient and churlish matriarch. Her daughters' marriages are all in jeopardy, with affairs and communions with the dead. It's difficult to find any solitude or sanity in the family.
- S1E5
S1.E5 ∙ The Corn Is Green
Feb 1, 1958A spinster schoolteacher arrives in a Welsh mining valley and discovers a boy genius in her class.
- S1E8
S1.E8 ∙ Ladies in Retirement
Feb 22, 1958Ellen Creed struggles to hold down her job as housekeeper-companion to the retired actress Leonora Fiske whilst trying to protect her two disturbed sisters from the threat of incarceration.
- S1E9
S1.E9 ∙ A Likely Tale
Mar 1, 1958A dying old man changes his will to leave everything to the new housemaid who has caught his eye, much to the alarm of his three grown up children and grandson.
- S1E11
S1.E11 ∙ Carry On, Admiral
Mar 15, 1958The action takes place in a bedroom in a Portsmouth hotel, the wardroom of H.M.S. Sherwood, and the living-room at Admiralty House.
- S1E12
S1.E12 ∙ French Without Tears
Mar 22, 1958The love affairs of three young Englishmen at a language cramming school in the south of France. Diana, the sister of one of the boys, arrives in town to flirt with all of her brothers' schoolmates.
- S1E14
S1.E14 ∙ The Ware Case
Apr 5, 1958A financier is accused of murder when his brother-in-law is found dead in his garden pond. After winning the court case he returns home to find that his lawyer has romantic inclinations towards his wife.
- S1E18
S1.E18 ∙ The Dover Road
Sep 13, 1958A wealthy man lives on the Dover Road, a traditional path of elopers. His practice of forcing such couples to see one another in the sober light of home life in his house leads to a personal involvement for him.
- S1E23
S1.E23 ∙ The Duke in Darkness
Dec 6, 1958A duke imprisoned for 15 years in a castle in France feigns blindness for five years to lull the suspicions of his captors in order to plan his escape.
- S1E24
S1.E24 ∙ The Magistrate
Dec 20, 1958A widow weds a magistrate and makes her 19-year-old son act as a boy.
- S1E26
S1.E26 ∙ Trilby
Jan 17, 1959in 19th-century Paris, a sinister hypnotist tries to turn a simple Irish girl into an opera star.
- S1E27
S1.E27 ∙ Murder on the Agenda
Feb 14, 1959Eynon Evans plays the part of Inspector Probert George, who was tortured in a prisoner-of-war camp when his plans for escape were discovered, is dead after five years in a mental home. His five fellow prisoners had sworn that if George died they would kill the man who had betrayed him to the Germans. But which of them was to do the killing? And how?
- S1E30
S1.E30 ∙ The Cat and the Canary
May 9, 1959At an old, dark house, on a dark and stormy night, an ill-assorted group of people meet for the reading of a millionaire's will. But there's a madman on the loose.
- S1E32
S1.E32 ∙ Black Chiffon
Jul 4, 1959A woman who has an absolutely untarnished reputation unaccountably steals a black-chiffon nightgown days before her son's wedding.
- S1E41
S1.E41 ∙ The Farmer's Wife
Dec 5, 1959After his daughter weds, a middle-aged widower with a profitable farm decides to remarry but finds choosing a suitable mate a problematic process.
- S1E51
S1.E51 ∙ The Man Who Came to Dinner
May 7, 1960Sheridan Whiteside, famous as an author, broadcaster and expert on just about everything, is invited to dinner by a pompous small-town businessman - and stays rather longer than anyone anticipated.
- S1E53
S1.E53 ∙ The Guinea Pig
Jun 4, 1960A working-class boy gets a scholarship to a public school.
- S1E56
S1.E56 ∙ Dream Girl
Aug 13, 1960A young lady is filled with daydreams until she meets her reality man.
- S1E57
S1.E57 ∙ The Shop at Sly Corner
Aug 27, 1960Descius Heiss is a French expatriate, and former Devil's Island prisoner, with two passions; driving shrewd bargains in antiques at his Sly Corner Shop, and the care of his motherless, violin-playing daughter, Margaret. But, his comfortable wealth comes more from being a fence for stolen goods than it does buying-and-selling antiques. His secret is discovered by his shop assistant Archie Fellowes, a nasty, sniveling young rat, and he begins blackmailing Heiss. Heiss employs the usual solution to blackmailers, and the film ends in a London concert-hall where Margaret is playing the Mendelssohm Violin Concerto.
- S1E58
S1.E58 ∙ Family Occasion
Oct 8, 1960What is Margaret hiding from the rest of the family when they arrive for their father's funeral?
- S1E61
S1.E61 ∙ The Druid Circle
Dec 3, 1960An embittered professor comes near to wrecking the lives of a young man and young woman whose love for each other has been accidentally revealed to him through a letter written by the boy to the girl.
- S1E65
S1.E65 ∙ The Four Poster
Jan 28, 1961The up-and-down lives of a married couple over decades, depicted as a series of bedroom scenes.
- S1E68
S1.E68 ∙ Seagulls Over Sorrento
Mar 4, 1961A Navy lieutenant is borrowed by the British to supervise torpedo experiments after one of their scientists is killed.