Season 5
40 episodes · Sep 11, 1960
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- S5E1
Big Brain Man
Sep 11, 1960Much to the delight of fellow tenants, a tenant becomes the landlord. Their delight is short lived when he starts behaving just like the previous landlord.
- S5E3
Lena, O My Lena
Sep 25, 1960Tom, a sensitive Liverpool student, takes a job on a loading dock in a Lancashire factory town. He becomes smitten with a girl named Lena who works in the machine shop next door, and despite a bullying driver who claims her for herself, he manages to take her out on a date.
- S5E7
I'll Have You to Remember
Oct 23, 1960A retired couple with many unresolved old scores to settle, argue and bicker while their world decays around them.
- S5E8
My Representative
Oct 30, 1960Ambition takes hold of fashion-house salesman Ronnie Page as he forgets those closest to him in his desire for a successful career.
- S5E14
The Cupboard
Dec 11, 1960When Fred Watson's wife and landlady disappear, and he is seen papering over two cupboards in his bedroom, the police are called in.
- S5E15
Rain
Dec 18, 1960A prostitute finds redemption in Pago Pago thanks to a hard missionary man.
- S5E20
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Jan 22, 1961A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all.
- S5E21
Honeymoon Postponed
Jan 29, 1961Lancashire newlyweds Violet and Arthur Fitton are forced to postpone their honeymoon and move in temporarily with his parents.
- S5E22
A Degree of Murder
Feb 5, 1961A man and his wife plan to murder his eccentric wealthy sister.
- S5E26
The Big Deal
Mar 3, 1961Unscrupulous business Sir Pierson Cale is determined to win the contract to build a power station. He sees John Hamilton as someone who can get the job done but he wants him to bid half a million less than his nearest competitor.
- S5E27
The Man Out There
Mar 12, 1961A Russian astronaut trapped in space in a faulty rocket, has five hours to live when his radio makes contact with Marie, a hunter's wife also trapped, in a blizzard swept area of Canada. Her daughter is dying of diphtheria, he as a doctor can help her.
- S5E31
Danger! Men Working
May 21, 1961In Ulster, Major Trumbull is put in charge of overseeing the completion of a hospital on time. As the pressure increases, he replaces well-liked foreman Desmond Doherty with brash Scanling, which angers the men.
- S5E34
Man on a Mountain Top
Apr 30, 1961A writer who lives in carefully-protected seclusion does not welcome a young woman's intrusion into his life.
- S5E36
The Ship That Couldn't Stop
May 14, 1961A ship powered by a nuclear reactor, is heading for the port of New York and is unable to slow down.
- S5E38
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
May 28, 1961The younger son of a working-class Jewish family in Montreal, Duddy Kravitz yearns to make a name for himself in society. This film chronicles his short and dubious rise to power, as well as his changing relationships with family and friends. Along the way the film explores the themes of anti-semitism and the responsibilities which come with adulthood.
- S5E39
The Typists
Jun 4, 1961We see two typists aging as they spend 40 years together in the same office.
- S5E40
The Night of the Apes
Jun 11, 1961After Clive is dishonourably discharged from the army for failing to shoot an unarmed terrorist, he finds his return to his hometown no easy matter.