Synopsis
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.
Episodes
1E1Catch As Catch CanBased on the play "La foire d'empoigne" by Jean Anouilh.75m2E2A Crack in the IceA soldier named Postnikov rescues a drowning man.75m3E3In CameraThree 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.85m4E4Pale Horse, Pale RiderA young woman's dreams of death but The Pale Rider fills her dreams along with her lover.85m5E5The Big BreakerA lodger, recuperating from a heart attack, sets his sights on his landlady.90m6E6Mr. DouglasCoronation Day, 1761: A merchant entertains a guest with an extraordinary secret.70m7E7MalatestaSigismondo Malatesta is a condottiere, a mercenary for hire and patron of the arts.95m8E8The July PlotDramatisation of the failed plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler in July 1944 by a conspiracy of high-ranking German Army officers.95m9E9First LoveA study of a boy's passion for an older girl as he discovers the difference between infatuation and true love.85m10E10Tap on the ShoulderArchibald 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.75m11E11Sir Jocelyn, the Minister Would Like a Word...A group of politicians and university dons argue over whether a new university should have a chapel or a state-of-the-art lecture hall.75m12E12The NavigatorsA tale of romance between two working class navvies.75m13E13FableIn 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.75m14E14Dan, Dan the Charity ManDan Sankey, the charity knocker, has become a national celebrity but who is the man behind the image?75m15E15Ashes to AshesBarbara 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.75m16E16Wear a Very Big HatA young couple celebrate their wedding anniversary with a night on the town.75m17E17The Confidence CourseA 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.61m18E18Campaign for OneAstronaut 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.75m19E19Horror of DarknessPeter 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.70m20E20A Little TemptationA writer is having an affair with a married woman and gets embroiled with the other women in her life.75m21E21Moving OnA soldier faces a court-martial for killing his friend.75m22E22Cat's CradleA couple move to the country, but the wife feels isolated and finds companionship with her cat.75m23E23Three Clear SundaysA 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.75m24E24The Interior DecoratorAn interior decorator takes a millionaire's wife on a guided tour of her new home.75m25E25Auto-StopA young couple go on a hitch-hiking tour of Europe.75m26E26The Good Shoe Maker and the Poor Fish PeddlerAn 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.75m27E27Cemented with LoveIt is general election night in a constituency in Northern Ireland.75m28E28A Knight in Tarnished ArmourTom is a working class Scots teenager, but he dreams of much more.75m29E29For the WestWhite mercenary forces prepare to attack rebel, pro-Lumumbist troops in the Congo75m30E30And Did Those Feet?Lord Fountain hates his illegitimate twin boys as he does not seem to be able to produce legitimate heirs.75m31E31The Man Without PapersYears 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?75m32E32The PistolA young private with a pistol deals with the aftershock of the attack on Pearl Harbor.75m33E33Women in Crisis: With Love and Tears75m34E34The Seven O'Clock CrunchMartin has a mid-life crisis.75m
