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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 - The Chopping Block
Release Date: 1960-10-23 -
Episode 2 - Looking for Garrow
Release Date: 1960-10-30 -
Episode 3 - A Subject of Scandal and Concern
Release Date: 1960-11-06A dramatized account of a Victorian cause celebre, written by John Osborne and concerning the true story of the last person in England to be tried for blasphemy. Richard Burton plays John George Holyoake, a social reformer who goes on trial for speaking in public about his atheist views. Rachel Roberts plays his wife, and the programme is introduced by Face to Face inquisitor John Freeman.
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Episode 4 - The Wind and the Sun
Release Date: 1960-11-13 -
Episode 5 - The Squeeze
Release Date: 1960-11-20Big Tom, a Welsh coal miner, has always been in control of his life; but he finds himself increasingly at odds with his growing son, and even begins to wonder if his wife still loves him.
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Episode 6 - The Nightwalkers
Release Date: 1960-11-27 -
Episode 7 - The Assassins
Release Date: 1960-12-04Ruthless assassins take over an ordinary suburban home in order to commit a political murder - but where do they come from?
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Episode 8 - The Song of a March Hare
Release Date: 1960-12-11 -
Episode 9 - A Time to Fight
Release Date: 1960-12-18 -
Episode 10 - Tuppence in the Gods
Release Date: 1960-12-25 -
Episode 11 - Nearer to Heaven
Release Date: 1961-01-01 -
Episode 12 - Venus Brown
Release Date: 1961-01-08Jack Brown is devoted to his much younger wife, Venus; but she's not the goddess he thinks she is.
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Episode 13 - A Woman Comes Home
Release Date: 1961-01-15Will home be the sanctuary Bobbie James needs it to be?
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Episode 14 - Off Centre
Release Date: 1961-01-22Joe Hunter must face up to the reality of his existence, and stop having false ideas about himself and his own importance.
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Episode 15 - A Kind of Strength
Release Date: 1961-01-29 -
Episode 16 - The Final Result
Release Date: 1961-02-05 -
Episode 17 - The Intervener
Release Date: 1961-02-12 -
Episode 18 - An Inspector Calls
Release Date: 1961-02-19The comfortable lives of the wealthy Birling family are disrupted when an inspector calls on them to ask awkward questions about a girl who has committed suicide.
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Episode 19 - The Mather Story
Release Date: 1961-02-26 -
Episode 20 - A Reason for Staying
Release Date: 1961-03-05An Eastern European general who has fled his native country dreams of returning home - and of gaining military power there.
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Episode 21 - Old Mick Mack
Release Date: 1961-03-12 -
Episode 22 - The Wrong Side of the Park
Release Date: 1961-03-19 -
Episode 23 - Fury in Petticoats
Release Date: 1961-03-26 -
Episode 24 - Brian Rix Presents #11: A Fair Cop
Release Date: 1961-04-02 -
Episode 25 - Charley's Aunt
Release Date: 1961-04-16Lord Fancourt Babberley is required, much against his will, to impersonate the wealthy aunt of his friend Charley.
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Episode 26 - Scene of the Accident
Release Date: 1961-04-30 -
Episode 27 - Marriage Lines
Release Date: 1961-05-14 -
Episode 28 - Brian Rix Presents #12: Wolf's Clothing
Release Date: 1961-05-21 -
Episode 29 - Home at Seven
Release Date: 1961-06-04Mr. Preston always gets home from the office at seven o'clock - but tonight he discovers that a whole day has unaccountably gone missing from his life.
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Episode 30 - 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 31 - 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 32 - That Lady
Release Date: 1961-07-09A one-eyed adventuress at the court of Philip II of Spain becomes embroiled in scandal and intrigue.
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Episode 33 - Listen James
Release Date: 1961-07-23 -
Episode 34 - Brian Rix Presents #13: Basinful of the Briny
Release Date: 1961-08-06 -
Episode 35 - 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 36 - Wet Fish
Release Date: 1961-09-03 -
Episode 37 - 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. The doctors have told him he needs to remain "for observation". The Colonel takes Sister Parker, the unit head nurse, into his confidence and tells her that the real reason.