The Wednesday Play

1. Catch As Catch Can

Air Date: 1964-09-30

Based on the play "La foire d'empoigne" by Jean Anouilh.

2. A Crack in the Ice

Air Date: 1964-10-28

A soldier named Postnikov rescues a drowning man.

3. In Camera

Air Date: 1964-11-04

Three 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.

4. Pale Horse, Pale Rider

Air Date: 1964-11-11

A young woman's dreams of death but The Pale Rider fills her dreams along with her lover.

5. The Big Breaker

Air Date: 1964-11-18

A lodger, recuperating from a heart attack, sets his sights on his landlady.

6. Mr. Douglas

Air Date: 1964-11-25

Coronation Day, 1761: A merchant entertains a guest with an extraordinary secret.

7. Malatesta

Air Date: 1964-12-02

Sigismondo Malatesta is a condottiere, a mercenary for hire and patron of the arts.

8. The July Plot

Air Date: 1964-12-09

Dramatisation of the failed plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler in July 1944 by a conspiracy of high-ranking German Army officers.

9. First Love

Air Date: 1964-12-16

A study of a boy's passion for an older girl as he discovers the difference between infatuation and true love.

10. Tap on the Shoulder

Air Date: 1965-01-06

Archibald 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.

11. Sir Jocelyn, the Minister Would Like a Word...

Air Date: 1965-01-13

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.

12. The Navigators

Air Date: 1965-01-20

A tale of romance between two working class navvies.

13. Fable

Air Date: 1965-01-27

In 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.

14. Dan, Dan the Charity Man

Air Date: 1965-02-03

Dan Sankey, the charity knocker, has become a national celebrity but who is the man behind the image?

15. Ashes to Ashes

Air Date: 1965-02-10

Barbara 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.

16. Wear a Very Big Hat

Air Date: 1965-02-17

A young couple celebrate their wedding anniversary with a night on the town.

17. The Confidence Course

Air Date: 1965-02-24

A 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.

18. Campaign for One

Air Date: 1965-03-03

Astronaut 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.

19. Horror of Darkness

Air Date: 1965-03-10

Peter 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.

20. A Little Temptation

Air Date: 1965-03-17

A writer is having an affair with a married woman and gets embroiled with the other women in her life.

21. Moving On

Air Date: 1965-03-24

A soldier faces a court-martial for killing his friend.

22. Cat's Cradle

Air Date: 1965-03-31

A couple move to the country, but the wife feels isolated and finds companionship with her cat.

23. Three Clear Sundays

Air Date: 1965-04-07

A 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.

24. The Interior Decorator

Air Date: 1965-04-14

An interior decorator takes a millionaire's wife on a guided tour of her new home.

25. Auto-Stop

Air Date: 1965-04-21

A young couple go on a hitch-hiking tour of Europe.

26. The Good Shoe Maker and the Poor Fish Peddler

Air Date: 1965-04-28

An 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.

27. Cemented with Love

Air Date: 1965-05-05

It is general election night in a constituency in Northern Ireland.

28. A Knight in Tarnished Armour

Air Date: 1965-05-12

Tom is a working class Scots teenager, but he dreams of much more.

29. For the West

Air Date: 1965-05-26

White mercenary forces prepare to attack rebel, pro-Lumumbist troops in the Congo

30. And Did Those Feet?

Air Date: 1965-06-02

Lord Fountain hates his illegitimate twin boys as he does not seem to be able to produce legitimate heirs.

31. The Man Without Papers

Air Date: 1965-06-09

Years 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?

32. The Pistol

Air Date: 1965-06-16

A young private with a pistol deals with the aftershock of the attack on Pearl Harbor.

33. Women in Crisis: With Love and Tears

Air Date: 1965-06-23

34. The Seven O'Clock Crunch

Air Date: 1965-06-30

Martin has a mid-life crisis.

1. The War Game

Air Date: 1965-10-06

2. Alice

Air Date: 1965-10-13

In this look at Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898), aka Lewis Carroll, Potter mixed biographical drama with a psychological profile to explore the roots of Dodgson's creativity. Dodgson tells stories to ten-year-old Alice Liddell, leading to recreations of scenes adapted from ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND (1865), designed to resemble the original Sir John Tenniel illustrations.

3. The Girl Who Loved Robots

Air Date: 1965-10-20

Night club girl Victory Ducann is found murdered, the main suspect is an astronaut, but police are prevented from approaching him as he is due to fly off to the Moon.

4. A Designing Woman

Air Date: 1965-10-27

Milly has been at it again.

5. Up The Junction

Air Date: 1965-11-03

Fragments of the life of three working-class women, and the people around them, in South London in the 1960s. Scenes in homes, streets, pubs, prison and their workplace cover family, friendship, romance, sex, and abortion.

6. The Trial and Torture of Sir John Rampayne

Air Date: 1965-11-10

An elderly right-wing politician is kidnapped, seemingly as part of a student prank. But his captors have a more alarming agenda.

7. The End of Arthur's Marriage

Air Date: 1965-11-17

A simple-minded man on the outs with his wife and her family must take a large amount of his father-in-law's hard-earned money to buy a house, in the belief that home-ownership will make him responsible and respectable. Instead, he throws it away on a mad spending spree with his daughter.

8. Tomorrow, Just You Wait

Air Date: 1965-11-24

Jimmy is young, earning good money and going out with a smashing girl. What more could a man wish for?

9. The Bond

Air Date: 1965-12-01

Newlyweds Chris and Sally are young and attractive, with successful careers and a beautiful home. Their future is rosy. However, trying to make marriage work is not easy.

10. Stand Up, Nigel Barton

Air Date: 1965-12-08

It deals with the experiences of Nigel Barton, a young man from a poor mining community who wins a scholarship to Oxford University. The villagers accuse him of snobbery, while the rich University students treat him like a peasant. Uncertain of which sphere he should be moving in, Nigel tries to reconcile himself with his proud but stubborn father, and also succeed at University, despite its pretentions which appal him.

11. Vote, Vote, Vote For Nigel Barton

Air Date: 1965-12-15

Candidate Nigel Barton goes from idealism to cynicism as he becomes disillusioned and suspicious of hollow campaign promises.

12. The Coming Out Party

Air Date: 1965-12-22

A boy begins a search in Notting Hill shortly before Christmas.

13. The Bone Yard

Air Date: 1966-01-05

Mrs. Miller wants to know why her husband has been working nights. PC Miller claims that a statue of Jesus on the cross has spoken to him in the graveyard. When senior officers and the church get involved, is he a prophet or a fraud?

14. A Man On Her Back

Air Date: 1966-01-12

John is an aspiring composer and pianist at a club and Mary is a single girl that he meets there. When friendship turns to romance, John has to contend with Colin, a charming ladies' man who turns to Mary in times of trouble.

15. Rodney, Our Intrepid Hero

Air Date: 1966-01-19

Anything Incorporated, an exclusive club devoted to providing the illegal and unattainable for its clients. Our intrepid hero, Rodney, is a newspaper journalist determined to expose the venture.

16. Calf Love

Air Date: 1966-01-26

A young English exchange student staying with a German family falls for the daughters.

17. Silent Song

Air Date: 1966-02-02

Life in a Trappist monastery offers a life of contemplation and hard labour.

18. Who's A Good Boy Then?

Air Date: 1966-02-09

Billy Oates meets a lady in a market and, taken by his kindness, she invites him to lodge with her and her husband. A rivalry soon develops between the young man and his landlord.

19. A Game - Like - Only A Game

Air Date: 1966-02-16

Two boys hatch a plan to get some money to go to the seaside.

20. Why Aren't You Famous?

Air Date: 1966-02-23

A young Irish woman named Eileen comes to Britain with romantic ideas of fame and fortune and meets Toppet, a struggling artist with a spare room.

21. Macready's Gala

Air Date: 1966-03-02

The Headmaster and governors of a boarding school are accidentally locked in the new memorial room with the convicted Great Train Robbers.

22. A Walk In The Sea

Air Date: 1966-03-09

Author James Hanley, Irish by birth and Welsh by adoption, crafted a TV play about a lonely spinster having her cottage in a seaside village requisitioned by the local council for a building scheme, with tragic consequences.

23. Boy In The Smoke

Air Date: 1966-03-16

24. Barlowe of the Car Park

Air Date: 1966-03-23

We spend a day with Barlowe, a council car park attendant.

25. The Portsmouth Defence

Air Date: 1966-03-30

After an assault a man tries to find justice in court only to find that his incompetent prosecution team and the attractive female defense lawyer who wows the court, conspire against him.

26. Pity About The Abbey

Air Date: 1966-04-06

Satirical play in which businessmen want to destroy Westminster Abbey to make way for a bypass.

27. The Big Man Coughed and Died

Air Date: 1966-04-13

Louie, a married factory worker, has just been made redundant when he meets a girl in a park and decides to change his life.

28. The Snow Ball

Air Date: 1966-04-20

A passionate, ambiguous relationship begins between two people who meet at a masked ball.

29. A Cheery Soul

Air Date: 1966-04-27

When a bossy do-gooder becomes homeless, she is passed from home to home.

30. The Connoiseur

Air Date: 1966-05-04

A cynical housemaster at a boarding school tries to feather his nest in advance of his forthcoming retirement.

31. The Retreat

Air Date: 1966-05-11

A young priest, newly arrived in Dublin, is conducting a retreat for the first time.

32. Ape and Essence

Air Date: 1966-05-18

Eighty years after a nuclear war ravaged the British Isles, a team of scientists from New Zealand come to conduct a survey.

33. Toddler on the Run

Air Date: 1966-05-25

Morris, a homunculus, is under suspicion of having stolen the swimming pool fund from a girls' school.

34. The Executioner

Air Date: 1966-06-01

Follows the assassination of Leon Trotsky.

35. Way Off Beat

Air Date: 1966-06-08

Arthur Bradshaw is a successful fixer, with plans to start a night club.

36. A Soiree at Blossom's Hotel

Air Date: 1966-06-15

A police raid on Edna Bossom's discreet hotel would be most ill-advised, in the opinion of Superintendent Willow; but one of his younger officers is determined to go ahead with one.

37. Cock, Hen and Counting Pit

Air Date: 1966-06-22

A couple revisit a past love affair when they meet again ten years later.

1. Photo Finish

Air Date: 1966-09-21

Eighty years old, Sam, a famous writer, looks back on his life and tempestuous marriage, and meets himself at the ages of sixty, forty and twenty.

2. A Hero of our Time

Air Date: 1966-09-28

A young Russian embarks on an affair as a relief from boredom but so brings about his doom.

3. The Frighteners

Air Date: 1966-10-12

4. A Piece of Resistance

Air Date: 1966-10-19

A retired colonel is enduring the invasion of the Channel Islands when his household is disrupted by the arrival of a German officer who is surprisingly civilised and susceptible to the daughter's charms.

5. Where the Buffalo Roam

Air Date: 1966-10-26

A mentally disturbed Welsh teenager is obsessed with Westerns. His volatile temperament loses him the few people who might have been sympathetic, and helped him. Instead, he spirals down to inevitable destruction.

6. The Head Waiter

Air Date: 1965-11-17

It is end of the season and the head waiter at the seaside hotel has some marvellous tales to tell a young boy.

7. Cathy Come Home

Air Date: 1966-11-16

A play about a British woman's descent into poverty and homelessness because of her country's rigid and problem-ridden welfare system.

8. The Private Tutor

Air Date: 1966-11-23

A mother, anxious to secure her daughter's admission to Oxford, invites a young male graduate to lodge with them.

9. A Pyre for Private James

Air Date: 1966-11-30

A major faces a court martial, accused of the wilful murder of Private James.

10. A Tale of Two Wives

Air Date: 1966-12-07

A tale of two wives: one a blonde living in a chic Parisian apartment and the other a brunette with a smart mews flat in London. Both are young, attractive, and separated from their husbands, and their paths are about to cross in an unexpected way.

11. Little Master Mind

Air Date: 1966-12-14

The Barking brothers dote on their parents and do a lot of good work for charity but the police are determined to bring them to account.

12. The Mayfly and the Frog

Air Date: 1966-12-21

Following an accident, the rider of a rusting old scooter pursues the driver of a Rolls Royce to a Mayfair mansion and forces entry in an attempt to confront the owner.

13. Person To Person

Air Date: 1967-01-04

A twenty-two-year-old architecture student appears at the door of a divorced thirty-something journalist and asks to use her telephone. They talk, and slowly begin to understand one another: their lives, values, and very different sets of relationships.

14. The Order

Air Date: 1967-01-11

An inspector in Austria investigates the death, over twenty years earlier, of a teenage girl who fell into a canal and drowned trying to evade capture by a policeman searching for members of the resistance.

15. Everybody's Rich Except Us

Air Date: 1967-01-18

Eddie Marble admires the lifestyles of the rich and wants a piece for himself.

16. The Lump

Air Date: 1967-01-25

Yorky is considered a troublemaker by the building site manager. When they sack him a strike is called but lost after the police intervene. He wants nationalise the building industry but forced to go the lump - tax free and off the books.

17. Who's Going to Take Me On?

Air Date: 1967-02-01

The adventures of a knicker factory worker aspiring to be a sales representative.

18. Death of a Teddy Bear

Air Date: 1967-02-08

Inspired by a real-life case, a woman encourages her lover to murder her older husband.

19. Days in the Trees

Air Date: 1967-02-15

A frail old woman meets a middle-aged man - her estranged son, whom she hasn't seen for five years.

20. In Two Minds

Air Date: 1967-02-22

In a series of small vignettes, we follow the course of a manic-depressive girl through high and low instances, slowly following her disintegration as she deals with her doctors and family, especially her hot headed, unimaginative father. Eventually she is brought back to a mental asylum where she'd been committed before.

21. Another Day, Another Dollar

Air Date: 1967-03-01

A new steward on a large passenger liner finds himself subject to "charges" levied by the senior bar steward.

22. Public Inquiry

Air Date: 1967-03-08

A tired signalman waits to be relieved. However, there are four trains to be guided through and some of the equipment doesn't seem to be working properly.

23. A Crucial Week in the Life of a Grocer's Assistant

Air Date: 1967-03-15

John Joe Moran is pulled between the compulsion to leave his small town in Ireland and the desire to stay.

24. A Breach in the Wall

Air Date: 1967-03-22

A parish church is undergoing restoration, when a coffin bearing the seal of Thomas à Becket, the martyred Archbishop of Canterbury, is discovered. Will the discovery help unite the Anglican and Roman Catholic Churches?

25. The Voices in the Park

Air Date: 1967-03-29

The life and passions of a speaker at Hyde Park Corner.

26. Dismissal Leading to Lustfulness

Air Date: 1967-04-05

A young man, newly dismissed from his job, returns home to a party where the other partygoers seem determined that he and a female flatmate should go on holiday together.

27. A Brilliant Future Behind Him

Air Date: 1967-04-12

A minor driving offence is being tried in court, but the case involves a rich young heiress, a dope peddler, and a Shadow Cabinet member.

28. Message for Posterity

Air Date: 1967-04-19

An elderly painter, once radical and confrontational, is given a final commission - to paint the portrait of the former Conservative Prime Minister who represented a totally opposing set of values when they were both young. Both men are now old and of little consequence to the modern generation, but the painter sees his opportunity to make an artistic statement by means of the portrait.

29. A Way with the Ladies

Air Date: 1967-04-26

Josh and Maisie come to Italy after the passing of the old lady who had been living in their sapre room but are soon drawn to another old lady, and try to convince her daughter that she would be better off in their tender care.

30. The Playground

Air Date: 1967-05-03

Walter has three children, by his estranged wife and his current partner, so he is far too busy to get a job, preferring to spend his time in the playground.

31. Drums Along the Avon

Air Date: 1967-05-10

A liberal white man becomes a Muslim to promote racial harmony.

1. Sleeping Dog

Air Date: 1967-10-11

A black barman upsets a colonial Governor who has just retired and returned to England. He locks the barman in the cellar and treats him like an animal.

2. Wanted: Single Gentleman

Air Date: 1967-10-18

The world of two simple-minded men living with a woman is disrupted by a new lodger.

3. A Black Candle for Mrs. Gogarty

Air Date: 1967-10-25

Mrs. Gogarty agrees to pay off a stranger's debt to a loan-shark, on condition that he marry her.

4. The Devil a Monk Would Be

Air Date: 1967-11-08

A community of monks decides to solve its financial predicament through the sale of a potent cure for rheumatism made from rare herbs and one hundred per cent proof alcohol.

5. Fall of the Goat

Air Date: 1967-11-15

A husband decides to impose a novel and outrageous arrangement on his wife.

6. The Profile of a Gentleman

Air Date: 1967-11-22

A gentleman thief puts together a gang to commit a perfectly executed robbery.

7. Dial Rudolph Valentino One One

Air Date: 1967-11-29

It is the morning of a notorious bachelor's wedding in this tale of marriage, friendship and non-communication between parents and children.

8. Kippers and Curtains

Air Date: 1967-12-06

The Honourable Audrey is the latest arrival at a boarding-house in a working-class area of London.

9. Death of a Private

Air Date: 1967-12-13

An army private is driven to murder when his wife falls in love with another man.

10. An Officer of the Court

Air Date: 1967-12-20

Incompetent and corrupt defence barrister Plantagenet King dreams of a grand venture into commercial law.

11. The Fat of the Land

Air Date: 1967-12-27

Five distinguished guests spend Christmas at a health farm.

12. Toggle

Air Date: 1968-01-03

An adopted child's world falls apart when his mother decides to walk out on her marriage.

13. House of Character

Air Date: 1968-01-10

Bisthorpe moves into a flat where a host of bizarre events occur: hands come through walls, light bulbs explode, furniture talks, he turns into a table-top model in an advertising agency, etc. Finally, it's revealed that the new flat is, in fact, a room in a psychiatric asylum.

14. Jamie, On a Flying Visit

Air Date: 1968-01-17

Jamie's flying visit is a somewhat sentimental one. Because Jamie is calling to see Lois, an old and dear flame he hasn't met since they left Oxford ten years ago. He is still the same old Jamie, but Lois has changed quite a bit.

15. Monsieur Barnett

Air Date: 1968-01-24

An ageing millionaire reflects on his life while being pampered at a Parisian hairdressing salon.

16. The Drummer and the Bloke

Air Date: 1968-01-31

An industrial dispute takes place in an isolated quarry while the Drummer and the Bloke look on.

17. Rebel in the Grave

Air Date: 1968-02-07

A country squire and his late friend's nephew argue over the dead man's artistic legacy.

18. Coincidence

Air Date: 1968-02-21

Three men who have avoided one another since violent events five years before meet unexpectedly one evening.

19. Light Blue

Air Date: 1968-04-03

An African-American trumpet player spends a few hours in an English provincial town, with a girl who happens to be white. As a result, each learns to care for the other, not as a "cipher of a divided society" but as a vulnerable human being.

20. Let's Murder Vivaldi

Air Date: 1968-04-10

Two couples, one fights all the time and the others let tensions in their relationship build until one stabs the other, the ones that fight end up saying oh well let's murder Vivaldi they pick up their violins and play together.

21. The Golden Vision

Air Date: 1968-04-17

Story of a group of manual workers who live and breath watching Everton FC. The gang travel to London, to watch the team play Arsenal, at Highbury. Vince discovers his wife has gone into labour and has to consider returning home early.

22. The Man Behind You

Air Date: 1968-05-01

The quiet head of a film company's dispatch department reacts violently to a practical joke.

23. Infidelity Took Place

Air Date: 1968-05-08

A happily married couple divorce for tax purposes, but their lawyer, not knowing the real reason for their divorce, falls in love with the wife.

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99. Episode 99

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1. Mrs Lawrence Will Look After It

Air Date: 1968-08-21

When an elderly woman is hospitalised, the truth behind her illegal adoption of 14 children is revealed.

2. Spoiled

Air Date: 1968-08-28

A schoolmaster invites a nineteen-year-old student to stay with him and his wife to cram for imminent exams.

3. The Gorge

Air Date: 1968-09-04

A teenage boy reluctantly accompanies his ghastly family on a coarse bank-holiday day out to local beauty spot and tourist trap, the Cheddar Gorge.

4. A Night with Mrs. Da Tanka

Air Date: 1968-09-11

A lonely bachelor, seeking his long-lost sweetheart at a boarding house, meets a serial divorcée.

5. Charlie

Air Date: 1968-09-18

James has come in search of his feckless older brother, Charlie, to ask him to come home and settle down.

6. Anyone For Tennis?

Air Date: 1968-09-25

Garry committed suicide to escape disgrace and imprisonment. Does he now have the chance to change the circumstances leading to his downfall?

7. Mooney and his Caravans

Air Date: 1968-10-02

A couple move to a caravan park, where the owner is a petty dictator.

8. The Lower Largo Sequence

Air Date: 1968-10-09

A man seeks his inner island.

9. Hello, Good Evening and Welcome

Air Date: 1968-10-16

A talk-show host is required to examine his conscience and also the ethics of "good television".

10. A Bit of Crucifixion, Father

Air Date: 1968-10-23

A doctor advises a woman not to proceed with her latest pregnancy, contrary to her strict Catholic upbringing.

11. Nothing Will be The Same

Air Date: 1968-10-30

A family becomes increasingly suspicious of the relationship between the mother and a mysterious stranger who starts to follow her around.

12. A Beast With Two Backs

Air Date: 1968-11-06

An isolated New Forest community in 19th Century Britain. A young local girl is murdered by a mentally disturbed youth, but the villagers blame a stranger, an Italian traveling showman and his bear, rather than see the rot in their own camp.

13. On the Eve of Publication

Air Date: 1968-11-27

An author hosts a dinner party to celebrate the publication of his new novel.

14. The Fabulous Frump

Air Date: 1969-01-08

A fashion editor competes for the affections of a designer with their new male model.

15. Smoke Screen

Air Date: 1969-01-15

A successful advertising executive who promotes a brand of cigarettes is reproached by his family when his mother contracts terminal lung cancer.

16. Dr. Aitkinson's Daughter

Air Date: 1969-01-21

After a year as a Volunteer Service Overseas worker, a young woman returns home in search of love and understanding.

17. The Apprentices

Air Date: 1969-01-29

A portrait of the life of some Northern apprentices.

18. Birthday

Air Date: 1969-02-05

A woman unwittingly springs a surprise at her sister's 27th birthday party.

19. The Big Flame

Air Date: 1969-02-12

Dock workers under the threat of redundancy, work day and night in an attempt to keep employed by running the workforce themselves.

20. A Serpent in Putney

Air Date: 1969-02-19

An off-beat romance in bed-sitter land.

21. Bami Powl Zapl

Air Date: 1969-03-05

A young man bitterly regrets his part in an attack on a bank cashier.

22. Cathy Come Home

Air Date: 1969-03-28

A play about a British woman's descent into poverty and homelessness because of her country's rigid and problem-ridden welfare system.

23. Sling Your Hook

Air Date: 1969-04-02

A group of coal miners from Nottingham go on their annual trip to Blackpool.

24. A Child and a Half

Air Date: 1969-04-09

A man enters into a correspondence with his colleague's eight-year-old daughter.

25. Son of Man

Air Date: 1969-04-16

Dennis Potter's controversial reading of the life of Christ, with Jesus portrayed as a hearty, fiery, well-meaning carpenter who believes that people should try to love their enemies rather than fight all the time, but who is racked by self doubt as to whether or not he is the popularly anticipated Messiah.

26. The Exiles

Air Date: 1969-04-23

Three Trinidadians consider what it means to be exiles in an essentially white society.

27. Blodwen, Home from Rachel's Marriage

Air Date: 1969-04-30

The daughter of a religious Welsh family becomes the centrepiece of a bizarre student festival.

1. The Parachute

Air Date: 1969-08-06

2. Pitchi Poi

Air Date: 1969-09-24

3. The Last Train through Harecastle Tunnel

Air Date: 1969-10-01

A shy clerk suffers from his colleagues petty office politics and contemptuous treatment of him, but this weekend, as a deeply involved train spotter, the closing of an old tunnel is his big adventure. On the way up, he encounters a well off couple with a daughter that hates them, and an Army Sergeant whose men hate him. The hotel he stays at is run by a fellow railway enthusiast, with a gay son that hates him, and he meets a famous signal designer with a daughter that hates him.

4. Patterson O.K.

Air Date: 1969-10-08

A story about growing up, falling in love and settling old scores in the unfriendly environment of a big city.

5. The Mark II Wife

Air Date: 1969-10-15

A woman who suspects her husband of having an affair reveals her suspicions at a party.

6. Close the Coalhouse Door

Air Date: 1969-10-23

The history of the mining industry in the northeast of England is told through family drama, comedy sketches and song.

7. The Sad Decline of Arthur Maybury

Air Date: 1969-10-30

A schoolmaster takes to drink.

8. All Out for Kangaroo Valley

Air Date: 1969-11-05

Two young Australians on holiday in London find that the "old country" has its problems.

9. Happy

Air Date: 1969-11-12

The story of an up-and-coming businessman.

10. There Is Also Tomorrow

Air Date: 1969-11-19

The commanding officer of a regiment handling nuclear missiles is shocked to see his daughter Sally on television taking part in a student demonstration.

11. The Compartment/Playmates

Air Date: 1969-11-26

In the first part, an insane man boards a quiet railway coach and starts to annoy a patient man trying to read a paper with incessant small talk in an increasingly menacing manner until he finally pulls out a gun and screaming class hatred bile, humiliates the man until his stop is reached. In part two he breaks into a lonely house and proceeds to terrorise a spinster woman who lives ther

12. Blood of the Lamb

Air Date: 1969-12-03

A student architect and his black girlfriend set out from South Africa to Britain. On the voyage, the student shares a cabin with an enigmatic Austrian.

13. The Vortex

Air Date: 1969-12-10

Young Nicky Lancaster must cope with the discovery that his socialite mother is a drug addict.

14. It Wasn't Me

Air Date: 1969-12-17

A couple seek a desperate remedy to the problem of a burdensome parent.

15. The Season of the Witch

Air Date: 1970-01-07

A young woman quits her dull job in the typing pool, and goes off on a search for personal freedom.

16. Mille Miglia

Air Date: 1970-01-14

17. The Hunting of Lionel Crane

Air Date: 1970-01-21

An army deserter hides out on a country estate but falls foul of the gamekeeper.

18. Rest in Peace, Uncle Fred

Air Date: 1970-01-28

A tragi-comic study of a Northern funeral.

19. Mad Jack

Air Date: 1970-02-04

Second Lieutenant Siegfried Sassoon of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers protests the appalling and unnecessary sacrifice of men's lives in the First World War

20. Nathan and Tabileth

Air Date: 1970-02-11

A young man befriends an elderly couple, claiming to be their grandson.

21. The Italian Table

Air Date: 1970-02-18

A junk dealer is caught in the middle of a tug-of-war between a woman, her husband and his mistress when they sell a piece of their furniture.

22. The Boy Who Wanted Peace

Air Date: 1970-02-25

Two Glaswegian youngsters are caught up in sectarian gang warfare.

23. The Cellar and the Almond Tree

Air Date: 1970-03-04

A former poet, now a Communist Party official in the German Democratic Republic, becomes entangled in the political machinery of a state about to plunge into a succession of Stalinist purges.

24. The Year of the Sex Olympics

Air Date: 1970-03-11

25. No Trams to Lime Street

Air Date: 1970-03-18

Three young merchant seamen from Liverpool take shore leave in their home city after three years away.

26. To See How Far It Is 1: Murphy's Law

Air Date: 1970-03-25

27. To See How Far It Is 2: The Curse of the Donkins

Air Date: 1970-04-01

28. To See How Far It Is 3: To See How Far It Is

Air Date: 1970-04-08

29. Wine of India

Air Date: 1970-04-15

In the year 2050, advances in medicine have resulted in a need for population control. People reaching the age of 100 must submit to a government controlled euthanasia program. The story centres around a 100-year old couple who must now make plans for their funeral.

30. Sovereign's Company

Air Date: 1970-04-22

A young man from an army family with a long tradition of honour and distinction goes to a military academy as an officer cadet and finds himself temperamentally unsuited to the life.

31. Party Games

Air Date: 1970-04-29

32. Emma's Time

Air Date: 1970-05-06

Emma, who lived with an author for the last two years of his life, is involved in a television film about him.

33. Chariot of Fire

Air Date: 1970-05-13

A prison visitor becomes involved with a convicted sex offender.

34. Wind Vs. Polygamy

Air Date: 1970-05-27

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