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Season 3

1967 · 11 episodes

  1. 1. Girls in Uniform

    1967-10-15

  2. 2. The Moon and Sixpence

    1967-11-12

    Loosely inspired from Gauguin's life, Charles Strickland is a middle-aged stockbroker who abandons his middle-classed life, his family, his duties to start painting, what he has always wanted to do. He is from now on a awful human being, wholly devoted to his ideal: beauty.

  3. 3. Romeo and Juliet

    1967-12-03 · 125m

    Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet fall in love against the wishes of their feuding families. Driven by their passion, the young lovers defy their destiny and elope, only to suffer the ultimate tragedy.

  4. 4. The Parachute

    1968-01-21 · 77m

    As the Nazis grow ever more powerful, Werner Roger grows up in an aristocratic household, hating his domineering father and making enemies in high places.

  5. 5. Cyrano de Bergerac

    1968-02-11

    Long-nosed Cyrano de Bergerac helps an army officer woo Roxanne, the woman he loves.

  6. 6. Ghosts

    1968-03-17

    A young student idealizes the lives of the inhabitants of a stylish Stockholm apartment building, only to find that it a nest of betrayal and sickness.

  7. 7. The Corn Is Green

    1968-04-14 · 120m

    A schoolteacher mentors a talented young miner and seeks to get him into a university.

  8. 8. The Tempest

    1968-05-12

    The magician Prospero, once Duke of Milan, now rules a small, enchanted island – but a storm brings visitors from the past.

  9. 9. The Old Ladies

    1968-06-09

    A trio of middle-aged women set up housekeeping together.

  10. 10. Man and Superman

    1968-07-07

    John Tanner is determined not to lose his independence - which comes under threat when he falls in love with an ardent feminist.

  11. 11. Hay Fever

    1968-08-04 · 90m

    Weekend guests of the Bliss family finds their hosts distinctly eccentric.

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