Season 5

1. Big Brain Man

1960-09-11

Much to the delight of fellow tenants, a tenant becomes the landlord. Their delight is short lived when he starts behaving just like the previous landlord.

2. A Heart and a Diamond

1960-09-18

3. Lena, O My Lena

1960-09-25

Tom, a sensitive Liverpool student, takes a job on a loading dock in a Lancashire factory town. He becomes smitten with a girl named Lena who works in the machine shop next door, and despite a bullying driver who claims her for herself, he manages to take her out on a date.

4. Pig's Ear with Flowers

1960-10-02

5. Thunder on the Snowy

1960-10-09

6. The Siege at Killyfaddy

1960-10-16

7. I'll Have You to Remember

1960-10-23

A retired couple with many unresolved old scores to settle, argue and bicker while their world decays around them.

8. My Representative

1960-10-30

Ambition takes hold of fashion-house salesman Ronnie Page as he forgets those closest to him in his desire for a successful career.

9. The Cake Baker

1960-11-06

10. Hail the Conquering Hero

1960-11-13

11. The Stranger

1960-11-20

12. Mr Nobody

1960-11-27

13. Clip Joint People

1960-12-04

14. The Cupboard

1960-12-11

When Fred Watson's wife and landlady disappear, and he is seen papering over two cupboards in his bedroom, the police are called in.

15. Rain

1960-12-18

A prostitute finds redemption in Pago Pago thanks to a hard missionary man.

16. The Great Gold Bullion Robbery

1960-12-25

Robbery from a moving train? Impossible.

17. A Head Full of Crocodiles

1961-01-01

18. Till the Day I Die

1961-01-08

19. The Mystery of Martin Wheeler

1961-01-15

20. The Picture of Dorian Gray

1961-01-22

A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all.

21. Honeymoon Postponed

1961-01-29

Lancashire newlyweds Violet and Arthur Fitton are forced to postpone their honeymoon and move in temporarily with his parents.

22. A Degree of Murder

1961-02-05

A man and his wife plan to murder his eccentric wealthy sister.

23. Strangers in the Room

1961-02-12

24. The Money Makers

1961-02-19

25. Tune on an Apron-String

1961-02-26

26. The Big Deal

1961-03-03

Unscrupulous business Sir Pierson Cale is determined to win the contract to build a power station. He sees John Hamilton as someone who can get the job done but he wants him to bid half a million less than his nearest competitor.

27. The Man Out There

1961-03-12

A Russian astronaut trapped in space in a faulty rocket, has five hours to live when his radio makes contact with Marie, a hunter's wife also trapped, in a blizzard swept area of Canada. Her daughter is dying of diphtheria, he as a doctor can help her.

28. The Conscientious Gauger

1961-03-26

29. The Way of Love

1961-04-09

30. The Hero

1961-04-23

31. Danger! Men Working

1961-05-21

In Ulster, Major Trumbull is put in charge of overseeing the completion of a hospital on time. As the pressure increases, he replaces well-liked foreman Desmond Doherty with brash Scanling, which angers the men.

32. No Licence for Singing

1961-05-21

33. Flying High

1961-04-23

34. Man on a Mountain Top

1961-04-30

A writer who lives in carefully-protected seclusion does not welcome a young woman's intrusion into his life.

35. Duel for Love

1961-05-07

36. The Ship That Couldn't Stop

1961-05-14

A ship powered by a nuclear reactor, is heading for the port of New York and is unable to slow down.

37. The Truth About Helen

1961-05-21

38. The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

1961-05-28

The younger son of a working-class Jewish family in Montreal, Duddy Kravitz yearns to make a name for himself in society. This film chronicles his short and dubious rise to power, as well as his changing relationships with family and friends. Along the way the film explores the themes of anti-semitism and the responsibilities which come with adulthood.

39. The Typists

1961-06-04

We see two typists aging as they spend 40 years together in the same office.

40. The Night of the Apes

1961-06-11

After Clive is dishonourably discharged from the army for failing to shoot an unarmed terrorist, he finds his return to his hometown no easy matter.