
Season 1 (1964)
Episodes: 34
Star Cast:
Episodes List

Ep.1 Catch As Catch Can
Air Date: 1964-09-30
Based on the play "La foire d'empoigne" by Jean Anouilh.

Ep.2 A Crack in the Ice
Air Date: 1964-10-28
A soldier named Postnikov rescues a drowning man.

Ep.3 In Camera
Air Date: 1964-11-04
Three 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.

Ep.4 Pale Horse, Pale Rider
Air Date: 1964-11-11
A young woman's dreams of death but The Pale Rider fills her dreams along with her lover.

Ep.5 The Big Breaker
Air Date: 1964-11-18
A lodger, recuperating from a heart attack, sets his sights on his landlady.

Ep.6 Mr. Douglas
Air Date: 1964-11-25
Coronation Day, 1761: A merchant entertains a guest with an extraordinary secret.

Ep.7 Malatesta
Air Date: 1964-12-02
Sigismondo Malatesta is a condottiere, a mercenary for hire and patron of the arts.

Ep.8 The July Plot
Air Date: 1964-12-09
Dramatisation of the failed plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler in July 1944 by a conspiracy of high-ranking German Army officers.

Ep.9 First Love
Air Date: 1964-12-16
A study of a boy's passion for an older girl as he discovers the difference between infatuation and true love.

Ep.10 Tap on the Shoulder
Air Date: 1965-01-06
Archibald 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.

Ep.11 Sir Jocelyn, the Minister Would Like a Word...
Air Date: 1965-01-13
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.

Ep.12 The Navigators
Air Date: 1965-01-20
A tale of romance between two working class navvies.

Ep.13 Fable
Air Date: 1965-01-27
In 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.

Ep.14 Dan, Dan the Charity Man
Air Date: 1965-02-03
Dan Sankey, the charity knocker, has become a national celebrity but who is the man behind the image?

Ep.15 Ashes to Ashes
Air Date: 1965-02-10
Barbara 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.

Ep.16 Wear a Very Big Hat
Air Date: 1965-02-17
A young couple celebrate their wedding anniversary with a night on the town.

Ep.17 The Confidence Course
Air Date: 1965-02-24
A 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.

Ep.18 Campaign for One
Air Date: 1965-03-03
Astronaut 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.

Ep.19 Horror of Darkness
Air Date: 1965-03-10
Peter 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.

Ep.20 A Little Temptation
Air Date: 1965-03-17

Ep.21 Moving On
Air Date: 1965-03-24

Ep.22 Cat's Cradle
Air Date: 1965-03-31

Ep.23 Three Clear Sundays
Air Date: 1965-04-07

Ep.24 The Interior Decorator
Air Date: 1965-04-14

Ep.25 Auto-Stop
Air Date: 1965-04-21

Ep.26 The Good Shoe Maker and the Poor Fish Peddler
Air Date: 1965-04-28

Ep.27 Cemented with Love
Air Date: 1965-05-05

Ep.28 A Knight in Tarnished Armour
Air Date: 1965-05-12

Ep.29 For the West
Air Date: 1965-05-26

Ep.30 And Did Those Feet?
Air Date: 1965-06-02

Ep.31 The Man Without Papers
Air Date: 1965-06-09

Ep.32 The Pistol
Air Date: 1965-06-16

Ep.33 Women in Crisis: With Love and Tears
Air Date: 1965-06-23
