Season 8

1. A Kind of Kingdom

1963-09-01

2. The Front Room

1963-09-15

A marriage is threatened by a wife's obsession with cleaning.

3. Mr. Big

1963-09-29

Mr. Bigelow is a dwarf who works for a carnival. Each night after the customers have gone, he visits the Mirror Maze, where he stands before one mirror in particular, one that magnifies his image many, many times.

4. Little Doris

1963-10-13

5. The Chocolate Tree

1963-10-27

As independence for Africa draws near, a wealthy British trading family welcomes a future president of one country into their home, in an uneasy conversation that is tinged by condescension and racism, grudges and militant anger.

6. Long Past Glory

1963-11-17

Two aging, shabby men inhabit a decaying sewer pumping station. They live by stealing things, including beds, a piano and a gramophone.They're joined by a younger man who disrupts their dreary small talk with angry, upsetting arguments.

7. The Higher They Fly

1963-12-01

Test pilot Fleming's jet develops an undercarriage problem on a passenger flight, necessitating in-flight repairs -- and Fleming is on the ground.

8. The Swindler

1963-12-15

Teacher Alec Waterman is released from jail after a sentence for fraud. Dick Sothers gets him a job with Lucas Builders but when Alec starts to make new friends he becomes trapped between his old life and his new life.

9. A Way of Living

1963-12-29

10. Sharp at Four

1964-01-12

Jean Hobley has a problem, trying to hold down a job that allows her to pick up her child from school.

11. Last Word on Julie

1964-01-26

Beautiful 23-year-old Julie Lister has left home to enjoy the single life. Reckless with money her love life is a disaster but when friends and family receive letters they fear she may have committed suicide.

12. The Pretty English Girls

1964-02-16

13. Realm of Error

1964-03-01

14. Always Ask for the Best

1964-03-15

An eternal triangle develops amongst shop keepers in shopping parade when an attractive young woman moves in.

15. Mug's Game

1964-03-29

16. Prisoner and Escort

1964-04-05

17. Cradle Song

1964-04-12

18. A Nice Little Business

1964-04-26

19. Pleasure Where She Finds It

1964-05-03

20. A Jug of Bread

1964-05-17

21. St. Ernie Leatherbound

1964-05-24

A reformed alcoholic businessman wants to prove that his newfound religion works by letting an alcoholic tramp stay in his house and be subject to his preaching. He ignores the protests of his wife and son.

22. That's Where the Town's Going

1964-06-07

23. Exit Joe - Running

1964-06-14

24. A Certain Kind of Silence

1964-06-28