Season Two
37 episodes · Oct 23, 1960
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- S2E3
A Subject of Scandal and Concern
Nov 6, 1960A dramatized account of a Victorian cause celebre, written by John Osborne and concerning the true story of the last person in England to be tried for blasphemy. Richard Burton plays John George Holyoake, a social reformer who goes on trial for speaking in public about his atheist views. Rachel Roberts plays his wife, and the programme is introduced by Face to Face inquisitor John Freeman.
- S2E5
The Squeeze
Nov 20, 1960Big Tom, a Welsh coal miner, has always been in control of his life; but he finds himself increasingly at odds with his growing son, and even begins to wonder if his wife still loves him.
- S2E7
The Assassins
Dec 4, 1960Ruthless assassins take over an ordinary suburban home in order to commit a political murder - but where do they come from?
- S2E12
Venus Brown
Jan 8, 1961Jack Brown is devoted to his much younger wife, Venus; but she's not the goddess he thinks she is.
- S2E14
Off Centre
Jan 22, 1961Joe Hunter must face up to the reality of his existence, and stop having false ideas about himself and his own importance.
- S2E18
An Inspector Calls
Feb 19, 1961The comfortable lives of the wealthy Birling family are disrupted when an inspector calls on them to ask awkward questions about a girl who has committed suicide.
- S2E20
A Reason for Staying
Mar 5, 1961An Eastern European general who has fled his native country dreams of returning home - and of gaining military power there.
- S2E25
Charley's Aunt
Apr 16, 1961Lord Fancourt Babberley is required, much against his will, to impersonate the wealthy aunt of his friend Charley.
- S2E29
Home at Seven
Jun 4, 1961Mr. Preston always gets home from the office at seven o'clock - but tonight he discovers that a whole day has unaccountably gone missing from his life.
- S2E30
A Call on Kuprin: Part 1
Jun 18, 1961After the manned satellite, the armed satellite. Kuprin, the Soviet scientist, is working on a warhead for the Chelovyek. But Laye-Parker M.P. and Smith, a Lobby Correspondent at the House of Commons, remember him at Cambridge before the war as an Anglophile married to an English woman. Can they, by a personal approach, persuade him to return to this country?
- S2E31
A Call on Kuprin: Part 2
Jun 25, 1961Laye-Parker M.P. and Smith, a Lobby Correspondent, have reached Moscow in their search for Kuprin, a Soviet rocket expert whom they knew at Cambridge and whom they hope to persuade to return to England. Now Laye-Parker has been arrested by the M.V.D. on unspecified charges, and Smith, a reluctant partner in the enterprise, must carry on the search alone.
- S2E32
That Lady
Jul 9, 1961A one-eyed adventuress at the court of Philip II of Spain becomes embroiled in scandal and intrigue.
- S2E35
The Winslow Boy
Aug 20, 1961The Winslow family return from church to their house in South Kensington on a summer morning in 1912 not knowing how their lives will be altered by their son, Ronnie, who has been expelled from Naval College for stealing a five shilling postal order.
- S2E37
The Hasty Heart
Sep 17, 1961It's 1945, Burma, the day the war is over! For many this means they've survived and will be going home. But not for everyone. A Scottish soldier, Corporal Lachlan "Lachie" MacLachlan is the victim of a wound to the lower back on this day. He's moved to a M.A.S.H. unit and undergoes surgery. As time goes by he begins to recover and watches, in dismay as soldiers pack up and head for home. The doctors have told him he needs to remain "for observation". The Colonel takes Sister Parker, the unit head nurse, into his confidence and tells her that the real reason.