Season 1

1964 · 34 episodes

Episodes

1Catch As Catch CanBased on the play "La foire d'empoigne" by Jean Anouilh.
2A Crack in the IceA soldier named Postnikov rescues a drowning man.
3In 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.
4Pale Horse, Pale RiderA young woman's dreams of death but The Pale Rider fills her dreams along with her lover.
5The Big BreakerA lodger, recuperating from a heart attack, sets his sights on his landlady.
6Mr. DouglasCoronation Day, 1761: A merchant entertains a guest with an extraordinary secret.
7MalatestaSigismondo Malatesta is a condottiere, a mercenary for hire and patron of the arts.
8The July PlotDramatisation of the failed plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler in July 1944 by a conspiracy of high-ranking German Army officers.
9First LoveA study of a boy's passion for an older girl as he discovers the difference between infatuation and true love.
10Tap 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.
11Sir 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.
12The NavigatorsA tale of romance between two working class navvies.
13FableIn 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.
14Dan, Dan the Charity ManDan Sankey, the charity knocker, has become a national celebrity but who is the man behind the image?
15Ashes 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.
16Wear a Very Big HatA young couple celebrate their wedding anniversary with a night on the town.
17The 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.
18Campaign 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.
19Horror 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.
20A Little TemptationA writer is having an affair with a married woman and gets embroiled with the other women in her life.
21Moving OnA soldier faces a court-martial for killing his friend.
22Cat's CradleA couple move to the country, but the wife feels isolated and finds companionship with her cat.
23Three 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.
24The Interior DecoratorAn interior decorator takes a millionaire's wife on a guided tour of her new home.
25Auto-StopA young couple go on a hitch-hiking tour of Europe.
26The 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.
27Cemented with LoveIt is general election night in a constituency in Northern Ireland.
28A Knight in Tarnished ArmourTom is a working class Scots teenager, but he dreams of much more.
29For the WestWhite mercenary forces prepare to attack rebel, pro-Lumumbist troops in the Congo
30And Did Those Feet?Lord Fountain hates his illegitimate twin boys as he does not seem to be able to produce legitimate heirs.
31The 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?
32The PistolA young private with a pistol deals with the aftershock of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
33Women in Crisis: With Love and Tears
34The Seven O'Clock CrunchMartin has a mid-life crisis.