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BBC anthology drama series that ran over four seasons and replaced the previous BBC Sunday Night Theatre series.
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Episode 1 - A Walk in the Desert
Release Date: 1960-09-25 -
Episode 2 - The Unplayed Part
Release Date: 1960-10-02 -
Episode 3 - The Ruffians
Release Date: 1960-10-09 -
Episode 4 - Twentieth Century Theatre: Man and Superman
Release Date: 1960-01-24 -
Episode 5 - Twentieth Century Theatre: The White Guard
Release Date: 1960-01-31It is November 1918 and the scene is the city of Kiev in the Ukraine, lately garrisoned by the German Army of Occupation but now threatened by the approach of a large well-equipped army of Cossacks. There's no ammunition and food is desperately short in the city. But still attempts are made to raise an army of citizens to repel the invaders. Describing the impact of the collapse of the Tsarist Empire on a family of officers, this play centres on Alexei Turbin, Colonel of the White Guard, responsible for defending Kiev, and on his beautiful sister Helena, deserted by her husband and in love with a young lieutenant, Leonid Schervinsky.
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Episode 6 - Twentieth Century Theatre: Our Betters
Release Date: 1960-02-07 -
Episode 7 - Twentieth Century Theatre: MacAdam and Eve
Release Date: 1960-02-14 -
Episode 8 - Brian Rix Presents: Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary?
Release Date: 1960-02-21 -
Episode 9 - Twentieth Century Theatre: The Conquering Hero
Release Date: 1960-02-28 -
Episode 10 - Twentieth Century Theatre: Journey's End
Release Date: 1960-03-06 -
Episode 11 - Twentieth Century Theatre: The Fanatics
Release Date: 1960-03-13 -
Episode 12 - Twentieth Century Theatre: Young Woodley
Release Date: 1960-03-20 -
Episode 13 - Twentieth Century Theatre: I Have Been Here Before
Release Date: 1960-03-27 -
Episode 14 - Twentieth Century Theatre: The Price of Freedom
Release Date: 1960-04-03 -
Episode 15 - Twentieth Century Theatre: Glorious Morning
Release Date: 1960-04-10 -
Episode 16 - Twentieth Century Theatre: The Queen Came By
Release Date: 1960-04-17 -
Episode 17 - Twentieth Century Theatre: Love on the Dole
Release Date: 1960-04-24 -
Episode 18 - Twentieth Century Theatre: The Vortex
Release Date: 1960-05-01 -
Episode 19 - Twentieth Century Theatre: Judgment Day
Release Date: 1960-05-08 -
Episode 20 - Twentieth Century Theatre: Aren't We All
Release Date: 1960-05-15 -
Episode 21 - Twentieth Century Theatre: The Elder Statesman
Release Date: 1960-05-22 -
Episode 22 - Twentieth Century Theatre: The Assassin
Release Date: 1960-05-29 -
Episode 23 - Twentieth Century Theatre: Doctor in the House
Release Date: 1960-06-05 -
Episode 24 - Twentieth Century Theatre: Mr. Gillie
Release Date: 1960-06-12 -
Episode 25 - Twentieth Century Theatre: The Insect Play
Release Date: 1960-06-19 -
Episode 26 - Twentieth Century Theatre: Musical Chairs
Release Date: 1960-06-26 -
Episode 27 - Playhouse 90: A Town Has Turned to Dust
Release Date: 1960-07-03 -
Episode 28 - Summer Theatre: June Evening
Release Date: 1960-07-10 -
Episode 29 - Summer Theatre: You're a Long Time Dead
Release Date: 1960-07-17 -
Episode 30 - Summer Theatre: My Flesh, My Blood
Release Date: 1960-07-24 -
Episode 31 - Summer Theatre: The Critical Point
Release Date: 1960-07-31Dr. Gage, involved in cryogenics, volunteers to be the first frozen man after murdering his wife. Dr. Mortimer discovers who killed his wife and ponders whether he should play judge and jury by switching Dr. Gage's freezing machine off?
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Episode 32 - Summer Theatre: A Dream of Treason
Release Date: 1960-08-07Lambert, a government official, is required to leak a secret document - which may have serious consequences.
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Episode 33 - Summer Theatre: The Devil's General
Release Date: 1960-08-14General Harras, a hero of the First World War, finds himself increasingly at odds with the new Germany of Adolf Hitler.
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Episode 34 - Summer Theatre: The Liberators
Release Date: 1960-08-21 -
Episode 35 - Summer Theatre: The Small Victory
Release Date: 1960-08-28 -
Episode 36 - Summer Theatre: Death of a Guest
Release Date: 1960-09-04 -
Episode 37 - Brian Rix Presents: Reluctant Heroes
Release Date: 1960-09-11 -
Episode 38 - Summer Theatre: An English Summer
Release Date: 1960-09-18 -
Episode 39 - A Walk in the Desert
Release Date: 1960-09-25 -
Episode 40 - The Unplayed Part
Release Date: 1960-10-02 -
Episode 41 - The Ruffians
Release Date: 1960-10-09 -
Episode 42 - Pay Day
Release Date: 1960-10-16 -
Episode 81 - Affair of State
Release Date: 1961-12-31Philip is much older than his wife, who is, he discovers, having an affair with his friend George. When he introduces George to a young woman, he has an ulterior motive.
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Episode 82 - The Barretts of Wimpole Street
Release Date: 1961-12-24Elizabeth Barrett's tyrannical father has forbidden any of his family to marry. Nevertheless, Elizabeth falls in love with the poet Robert Browning.
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Episode 83 - The Judge and His Hangman
Release Date: 1961-12-17Inspector Barlach is ruthless in pursuit of an arrest, and doesn't seem to care if anyone else gets hurt along the way.
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Episode 84 - Centenary Year
Release Date: 1961-12-10 -
Episode 85 - Somewhere for the Night
Release Date: 1961-12-03 -
Episode 86 - She Stoops to Conquer
Release Date: 1961-11-26Hardcastle, a man of substance, looks forward to acquainting his daughter with his old pal's son with a view to marriage. But thanks to playboy Lumpkin, he's mistaken by his prospective son-in-law Marlow for an innkeeper, his daughter for the local barmaid. The good news is, while Marlow can barely speak to a woman of quality he's a charmer with those of a different stamp.
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Episode 87 - Cross of Iron
Release Date: 1961-11-19 -
Episode 88 - Brian Rix Presents #14: Flat Spin
Release Date: 1961-11-12 -
Episode 89 - The Test
Release Date: 1961-11-05Pressure mounts on a group of scientists as they urgently prepare to test a new top secret weapon.
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Episode 90 - Hello Ragtime
Release Date: 1961-10-29 -
Episode 91 - The Big Noise
Release Date: 1961-10-22 -
Episode 92 - What Every Woman Knows
Release Date: 1961-10-15Maggie Wylie isn't very beautiful. She isn't even very young any more. But fortunately there is more to Maggie than meets the eye.
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Episode 93 - Faraway Places
Release Date: 1961-10-08Kindly, mild mannered clerk Arthur Bruce dreams of traveling to distant lands and reads books about faraway places.
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Episode 94 - A Clean Kill
Release Date: 1961-10-01 -
Episode 95 - The Hasty Heart
Release Date: 1961-09-17It's 1945, Burma, the day the war is over! For many this means they've survived and will be going home. But not for everyone. A Scottish soldier, Corporal Lachlan "Lachie" MacLachlan is the victim of a wound to the lower back on this day. He's moved to a M.A.S.H. unit and undergoes surgery. As time goes by he begins to recover and watches, in dismay as soldiers pack up and head for home.
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Episode 96 - Wet Fish
Release Date: 1961-09-03 -
Episode 97 - The Winslow Boy
Release Date: 1961-08-20The Winslow family return from church to their house in South Kensington on a summer morning in 1912 not knowing how their lives will be altered by their son, Ronnie, who has been expelled from Naval College for stealing a five shilling postal order.
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Episode 98 - Brian Rix presents: Basinful of the Briny
Release Date: 1961-08-06 -
Episode 99 - That Lady
Release Date: 1961-07-09 -
Episode 100 - A Call on Kuprin: Part 1
Release Date: 1961-06-18After the manned satellite, the armed satellite. Kuprin, the Soviet scientist, is working on a warhead for the Chelovyek. But Laye-Parker, M.P., and Smith, a Lobby Correspondent at the House of Commons, remember him at Cambridge before the war as an Anglophile married to an English woman. Can they, by a personal approach, persuade him to return to this country?
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Episode 101 - A Call on Kuprin: Part 2
Release Date: 1961-06-25Laye-Parker, M.P., and Smith, a Lobby Correspondent, have reached Moscow in their search for Kuprin, a Soviet rocket expert whom they knew at Cambridge and whom they hope to persuade to return to England. Now Laye-Parker has been arrested by the M.V.D. on unspecified charges, and Smith, a reluctant partner in the enterprise, must carry on the search alone.
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Episode 102 - Home at Seven
Release Date: 1961-06-04Home at seven as usual after just another Monday at the office - or that is what Mr. Preston thought. But in fact it is Tuesday and he has no recollection of the past twenty-four hours. It soon becomes vital to fill this gap in his memory.
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Episode 103 - Brian Rix presents: Wolf's Clothing
Release Date: 1961-05-21 -
Episode 104 - Marriage Lines
Release Date: 1961-05-14A comedy of marriage, set in the secure partnership of two mature and worldly people, examines what happens when an envious free-lance tries to rock the boat.
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Episode 105 - Scene of the Accident
Release Date: 1961-04-30When a prominent Q.C. is knocked down and killed by a car, the driver's Insurance Company is faced with paying out on a very substantial claim. Briefed to investigate possible grounds for disputing liability, Sam Holford unearths a delicate and intriguing situation.
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Episode 106 - Charley's Aunt
Release Date: 1961-04-16I'm Charley's Aunt from Brazil - where the nuts come from.
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Episode 107 - Brian Rix presents: A Fair Cop
Release Date: 1961-04-02 -
Episode 108 - Fury in Petticoats
Release Date: 1961-03-26It is 1837 and we are in the home of the Rev. William Dill, the vicar of a small parish in England. Life there is peaceful and leisurely until one day the vicar welcomes into his household a native girl brought from Tierra del Fuego by a Mr. Charles Darwin....
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Episode 109 - The Wrong Side of the Park
Release Date: 1961-03-19 -
Episode 110 - Old Mick Mack
Release Date: 1961-03-12 -
Episode 111 - A Reason for Staying
Release Date: 1961-03-05A group of Eastern European emigres, now living in England, still hope that they will one day return to their home-land in authority. But one of them, a general, has a reason for staying.....
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Episode 112 - The Mather Story
Release Date: 1961-02-26A serious accusation by a famous artist about the work of another gives John Ramsay a chance to 'get something into the paper' and perhaps to keep his job on the Sunday Herald. But rapidly the story becomes a challenge-to his skill, and to his responsibility.
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Episode 113 - An Inspector Calls
Release Date: 1961-02-19Spring, 1912 - for the wealthy a time of good living, gaiety, and a belief in the unshakability of the status quo. Mr. and Mrs. Birling are celebrating the engagement of their daughter Sheila to Gerald Croft, heir to a title; it is the pinnacle of Mr. Birling's successful rise in society.....
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Episode 114 - The Intervener
Release Date: 1961-02-12Jeremy Penlove is a London solicitor and a confirmed bachelor. His life is placid and uncomplicated until, one fine summer's day, a new client, Lily Forrester, walks into his office to turn his world upside down.
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Episode 115 - The Final Result
Release Date: 1961-02-05John Horner's father, mother, and sister are waiting to hear the result of his degree examination. He is the only one who is not surprised: it is what he expected it to be. It is this result, and the action John takes as a consequence, which reveals, nakedly, the conflict within this family group.
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Episode 116 - A Kind of Strength
Release Date: 1961-01-29Two men, both trapped in the world of commerce, struggle for freedom. In facing the truth about themselves, the decisions they have to make need a rare kind of strength.
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Episode 117 - Off Centre
Release Date: 1961-01-22Joe Hunter is a scientist living two lives: one as he sees himself, and the other as the world, sees him. The story spans the years from 1917, when he was a young pilot in the Royal Flying Corps, to the present day - when the man and his ideas come into headlong collision.
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Episode 118 - A Woman Comes Home
Release Date: 1961-01-15Home has many meanings; a refuge from strain, the start of 'growing up'; the source of compassion and understanding. When these are lost there is desolation, but if they are fought for, no matter with what human frailty, life may grow again out of a new wisdom.
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Episode 119 - Venus Brown
Release Date: 1961-01-08For Jack Brown, his wife Venus is a goddess in more than name. But she is not a goddess, she is a human being, and it is dangerous to worship human beings.
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Episode 120 - Nearer to Heaven
Release Date: 1961-01-01 -
Episode 121 - The Chopping Block
Release Date: 1960-10-23 -
Episode 122 - Looking for Garrow
Release Date: 1960-10-30American business woman Clarissa comes to England seeking one J.S. Garrow - author of an alarmingly frank new novel. But it looks as though her teenage daughter has already found Garrow - and he is franker and more alarming than his book!
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Episode 123 - A Subject of Scandal and Concern
Release Date: 1960-11-06In 1842, a rebel in Cheltenham and Gloucester imprisoned for his beliefs and for the right to express them.
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Episode 124 - The Wind and the Sun
Release Date: 1960-11-13Ruth and Lewis Miller's marriage is almost at breaking point. The result upon their two children of the tension created by this situation is revealed in the play as an important question in modern life. The play is not regarded as suitable for viewing by children.
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Episode 125 - The Squeeze
Release Date: 1960-11-20Should Big Tom, a colliery face repairer, confronted by the onset of middle age, continue with his work at the risk of his life, or settle for something safer at the risk of his self-respect?
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Episode 126 - The Nightwalkers
Release Date: 1960-11-27A young British student wandering through France today becomes involved with remnants of a former French Resistance group.
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Episode 127 - The Assassins
Release Date: 1960-12-04A quiet evening at home for a normal fairly prosperous middle-class family is suddenly disrupted by the arrival of two strangers - two men with a mission, fanatical and ruthless, prepared to kill if necessary; but these men are not criminals-they would be described by some as patriots.
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Episode 128 - The Song of a March Hare
Release Date: 1960-12-11Crumble is convinced that he was born for success in business. All he needs is a chance to prove it, and this comes with an unexpected legacy.
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Episode 129 - A Time to Fight
Release Date: 1960-12-18Housewife Ellen Manders had no reason to suspect that this evening was going to be any different from any other until her husband arrived home late with his shoes and brief-case covered in mud.
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Episode 130 - Tuppence in the Gods
Release Date: 1960-12-25