Season 2

1. The War Game

1965-10-06 · 75m

2. Alice

1965-10-13 · 75m

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

1965-10-20 · 75m

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

1965-10-27 · 75m

Milly has been at it again.

5. Up The Junction

1965-11-03 · 75m

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

1965-11-10 · 75m

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

1965-11-17 · 75m

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

1965-11-24 · 75m

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

9. The Bond

1965-12-01 · 75m

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

1965-12-08 · 75m

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

1965-12-15 · 75m

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

12. The Coming Out Party

1965-12-22 · 75m

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

13. The Bone Yard

1966-01-05 · 75m

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

1966-01-12 · 75m

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

1966-01-19 · 75m

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

1966-01-26 · 75m

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

17. Silent Song

1966-02-02 · 75m

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

18. Who's A Good Boy Then?

1966-02-09 · 75m

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

1966-02-16 · 75m

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

20. Why Aren't You Famous?

1966-02-23 · 75m

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

1966-03-02 · 75m

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

1966-03-09 · 75m

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

1966-03-16 · 75m

24. Barlowe of the Car Park

1966-03-23 · 75m

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

25. The Portsmouth Defence

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

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

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

1966-04-20

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

29. A Cheery Soul

1966-04-27

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

30. The Connoiseur

1966-05-04

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

31. The Retreat

1966-05-11

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

32. Ape and Essence

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

1966-05-25

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

34. The Executioner

1966-06-01

Follows the assassination of Leon Trotsky.

35. Way Off Beat

1966-06-08

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

36. A Soiree at Blossom's Hotel

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

1966-06-22

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