Season 2

E1. The War Game

Oct 6, 1965 · 75m

Written, directed, and produced by Peter Watkins. Depicting the aftermath of a nuclear war, it was withdrawn from the broadcast schedule due to fear by the BBC and the British Government that it was too horrifying for TV. It premiered at a London cinema six months later and was shown at film festivals, winning a special prize at the Venice Film Festival. It then won the 1967 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

E2. Alice

Oct 13, 1965 · 75m

In this look at Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898), aka Lewis Carroll, Potter mixed biographical drama with a psychological profile to explore the roots of Dodgson's creativity. Dodgson tells stories to ten-year-old Alice Liddell, leading to recreations of scenes adapted from ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND (1865), designed to resemble the original Sir John Tenniel illustrations.

E3. The Girl Who Loved Robots

Oct 20, 1965 · 75m

Night club girl Victory Ducann is found murdered, the main suspect is an astronaut, but police are prevented from approaching him as he is due to fly off to the Moon.

E4. A Designing Woman

Oct 27, 1965 · 75m

Milly has been at it again.

E5. Up The Junction

Nov 3, 1965 · 75m

Fragments of the life of three working-class women, and the people around them, in South London in the 1960s. Scenes in homes, streets, pubs, prison and their workplace cover family, friendship, romance, sex, and abortion.

E6. The Trial and Torture of Sir John Rampayne

Nov 10, 1965 · 75m

An elderly right-wing politician is kidnapped, seemingly as part of a student prank. But his captors have a more alarming agenda.

E7. The End of Arthur's Marriage

Nov 17, 1965 · 75m

A simple-minded man on the outs with his wife and her family must take a large amount of his father-in-law's hard-earned money to buy a house, in the belief that home-ownership will make him responsible and respectable. Instead, he throws it away on a mad spending spree with his daughter.

E8. Tomorrow, Just You Wait

Nov 24, 1965 · 75m

Jimmy is young, earning good money and going out with a smashing girl. What more could a man wish for?

E9. The Bond

Dec 1, 1965 · 75m

Newlyweds Chris and Sally are young and attractive, with successful careers and a beautiful home. Their future is rosy. However, trying to make marriage work is not easy.

E10. Stand Up, Nigel Barton

Dec 8, 1965 · 75m

It deals with the experiences of Nigel Barton, a young man from a poor mining community who wins a scholarship to Oxford University. The villagers accuse him of snobbery, while the rich University students treat him like a peasant. Uncertain of which sphere he should be moving in, Nigel tries to reconcile himself with his proud but stubborn father, and also succeed at University, despite its pretentions which appal him.

E11. Vote, Vote, Vote For Nigel Barton

Dec 15, 1965 · 75m

Candidate Nigel Barton goes from idealism to cynicism as he becomes disillusioned and suspicious of hollow campaign promises.

E12. The Coming Out Party

Dec 22, 1965 · 75m

A boy begins a search in Notting Hill shortly before Christmas.

E13. The Bone Yard

Jan 5, 1966 · 75m

Mrs. Miller wants to know why her husband has been working nights. PC Miller claims that a statue of Jesus on the cross has spoken to him in the graveyard. When senior officers and the church get involved, is he a prophet or a fraud?

E14. A Man On Her Back

Jan 12, 1966 · 75m

John is an aspiring composer and pianist at a club and Mary is a single girl that he meets there. When friendship turns to romance, John has to contend with Colin, a charming ladies' man who turns to Mary in times of trouble.

E15. Rodney, Our Intrepid Hero

Jan 19, 1966 · 75m

Anything Incorporated, an exclusive club devoted to providing the illegal and unattainable for its clients. Our intrepid hero, Rodney, is a newspaper journalist determined to expose the venture.

E16. Calf Love

Jan 26, 1966 · 75m

A young English exchange student staying with a German family falls for the daughters.

E17. Silent Song

Feb 2, 1966 · 75m

Life in a Trappist monastery offers a life of contemplation and hard labour.

E18. Who's A Good Boy Then?

Feb 9, 1966 · 75m

Billy Oates meets a lady in a market and, taken by his kindness, she invites him to lodge with her and her husband. A rivalry soon develops between the young man and his landlord.

E19. A Game - Like - Only A Game

Feb 16, 1966 · 75m

Two boys hatch a plan to get some money to go to the seaside.

E20. Why Aren't You Famous?

Feb 23, 1966 · 75m

A young Irish woman named Eileen comes to Britain with romantic ideas of fame and fortune and meets Toppet, a struggling artist with a spare room.

E21. Macready's Gala

Mar 2, 1966 · 75m

The Headmaster and governors of a boarding school are accidentally locked in the new memorial room with the convicted Great Train Robbers.

E22. A Walk In The Sea

Mar 9, 1966 · 75m

Author James Hanley, Irish by birth and Welsh by adoption, crafted a TV play about a lonely spinster having her cottage in a seaside village requisitioned by the local council for a building scheme, with tragic consequences.

E23. Boy In The Smoke

Mar 16, 1966 · 75m

E24. Barlowe of the Car Park

Mar 23, 1966 · 75m

We spend a day with Barlowe, a council car park attendant.

E25. The Portsmouth Defence

Mar 30, 1966 · 75m

After an assault a man tries to find justice in court only to find that his incompetent prosecution team and the attractive female defense lawyer who wows the court, conspire against him.

E26. Pity About The Abbey

Apr 6, 1966

Satirical play in which businessmen want to destroy Westminster Abbey to make way for a bypass.

E27. The Big Man Coughed and Died

Apr 13, 1966 · 75m

Louie, a married factory worker, has just been made redundant when he meets a girl in a park and decides to change his life.

E28. The Snow Ball

Apr 20, 1966 · 75m

A passionate, ambiguous relationship begins between two people who meet at a masked ball.

E29. A Cheery Soul

Apr 27, 1966 · 75m

When a bossy do-gooder becomes homeless, she is passed from home to home.

E30. The Connoiseur

May 4, 1966 · 75m

A cynical housemaster at a boarding school tries to feather his nest in advance of his forthcoming retirement.