Episodes
34 episodes. Playback and audio depend on the available source.
S1:E1 Catch As Catch Can
Based on the play "La foire d'empoigne" by Jean Anouilh.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E2 A Crack in the Ice
A soldier named Postnikov rescues a drowning man.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E3 In Camera
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.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E4 Pale Horse, Pale Rider
A young woman's dreams of death but The Pale Rider fills her dreams along with her lover.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E5 The Big Breaker
A lodger, recuperating from a heart attack, sets his sights on his landlady.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E6 Mr. Douglas
Coronation Day, 1761: A merchant entertains a guest with an extraordinary secret.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E7 Malatesta
Sigismondo Malatesta is a condottiere, a mercenary for hire and patron of the arts.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E8 The July Plot
Dramatisation of the failed plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler in July 1944 by a conspiracy of high-ranking German Army officers.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E9 First Love
A study of a boy's passion for an older girl as he discovers the difference between infatuation and true love.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E10 Tap on the Shoulder
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.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E11 Sir 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.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E12 The Navigators
A tale of romance between two working class navvies.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E13 Fable
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.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E14 Dan, Dan the Charity Man
Dan Sankey, the charity knocker, has become a national celebrity but who is the man behind the image?
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E15 Ashes to Ashes
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.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E16 Wear a Very Big Hat
A young couple celebrate their wedding anniversary with a night on the town.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E17 The Confidence Course
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.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E18 Campaign for One
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.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E19 Horror of Darkness
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.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E20 A Little Temptation
A writer is having an affair with a married woman and gets embroiled with the other women in her life.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E21 Moving On
A soldier faces a court-martial for killing his friend.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E22 Cat's Cradle
A couple move to the country, but the wife feels isolated and finds companionship with her cat.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E23 Three Clear Sundays
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.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E24 The Interior Decorator
An interior decorator takes a millionaire's wife on a guided tour of her new home.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E25 Auto-Stop
A young couple go on a hitch-hiking tour of Europe.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E26 The Good Shoe Maker and the Poor Fish Peddler
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.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E27 Cemented with Love
It is general election night in a constituency in Northern Ireland.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E28 A Knight in Tarnished Armour
Tom is a working class Scots teenager, but he dreams of much more.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E29 For the West
White mercenary forces prepare to attack rebel, pro-Lumumbist troops in the Congo
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E30 And Did Those Feet?
Lord Fountain hates his illegitimate twin boys as he does not seem to be able to produce legitimate heirs.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E31 The Man Without Papers
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?
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E32 The Pistol
A young private with a pistol deals with the aftershock of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E33 Women in Crisis: With Love and Tears
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E34 The Seven O'Clock Crunch
Martin has a mid-life crisis.
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