Season 3

E1. Photo Finish

Sep 21, 1966 · 75m

Eighty years old, Sam, a famous writer, looks back on his life and tempestuous marriage, and meets himself at the ages of sixty, forty and twenty.

E2. A Hero of our Time

Sep 28, 1966 · 75m

A young Russian embarks on an affair as a relief from boredom but so brings about his doom.

E3. The Frighteners

Oct 12, 1966 · 75m

Written by Daniel Farson; first shown in the series Londoners on BBC2 8 July 1965

E4. A Piece of Resistance

Oct 19, 1966 · 75m

A retired colonel is enduring the invasion of the Channel Islands when his household is disrupted by the arrival of a German officer who is surprisingly civilised and susceptible to the daughter's charms.

E5. Where the Buffalo Roam

Oct 26, 1966 · 75m

A mentally disturbed Welsh teenager is obsessed with Westerns. His volatile temperament loses him the few people who might have been sympathetic, and helped him. Instead, he spirals down to inevitable destruction.

E6. The Head Waiter

Nov 17, 1965 · 75m

It is end of the season and the head waiter at the seaside hotel has some marvellous tales to tell a young boy.

E7. Cathy Come Home

Nov 16, 1966 · 75m

A play about a British woman's descent into poverty and homelessness because of her country's rigid and problem-ridden welfare system.

E8. The Private Tutor

Nov 23, 1966 · 75m

A mother, anxious to secure her daughter's admission to Oxford, invites a young male graduate to lodge with them.

E9. A Pyre for Private James

Nov 30, 1966 · 75m

A major faces a court martial, accused of the wilful murder of Private James.

E10. A Tale of Two Wives

Dec 7, 1966 · 75m

A tale of two wives: one a blonde living in a chic Parisian apartment and the other a brunette with a smart mews flat in London. Both are young, attractive, and separated from their husbands, and their paths are about to cross in an unexpected way.

E11. Little Master Mind

Dec 14, 1966 · 75m

The Barking brothers dote on their parents and do a lot of good work for charity but the police are determined to bring them to account.

E12. The Mayfly and the Frog

Dec 21, 1966 · 75m

Following an accident, the rider of a rusting old scooter pursues the driver of a Rolls Royce to a Mayfair mansion and forces entry in an attempt to confront the owner.

E13. Person To Person

Jan 4, 1967 · 75m

A twenty-two-year-old architecture student appears at the door of a divorced thirty-something journalist and asks to use her telephone. They talk, and slowly begin to understand one another: their lives, values, and very different sets of relationships.

E14. The Order

Jan 11, 1967 · 75m

An inspector in Austria investigates the death, over twenty years earlier, of a teenage girl who fell into a canal and drowned trying to evade capture by a policeman searching for members of the resistance.

E15. Everybody's Rich Except Us

Jan 18, 1967 · 75m

Eddie Marble admires the lifestyles of the rich and wants a piece for himself.

E16. The Lump

Jan 25, 1967 · 75m

Yorky is considered a troublemaker by the building site manager. When they sack him a strike is called but lost after the police intervene. He wants nationalise the building industry but forced to go the lump - tax free and off the books.

E17. Who's Going to Take Me On?

Feb 1, 1967 · 75m

The adventures of a knicker factory worker aspiring to be a sales representative.

E18. Death of a Teddy Bear

Feb 8, 1967 · 75m

Inspired by a real-life case, a woman encourages her lover to murder her older husband.

E19. Days in the Trees

Feb 15, 1967 · 75m

A frail old woman meets a middle-aged man - her estranged son, whom she hasn't seen for five years.

E20. In Two Minds

Feb 22, 1967 · 75m

In a series of small vignettes, we follow the course of a manic-depressive girl through high and low instances, slowly following her disintegration as she deals with her doctors and family, especially her hot headed, unimaginative father. Eventually she is brought back to a mental asylum where she'd been committed before.

E21. Another Day, Another Dollar

Mar 1, 1967 · 75m

A new steward on a large passenger liner finds himself subject to "charges" levied by the senior bar steward.

E22. Public Inquiry

Mar 8, 1967 · 75m

A tired signalman waits to be relieved. However, there are four trains to be guided through and some of the equipment doesn't seem to be working properly.

E23. A Crucial Week in the Life of a Grocer's Assistant

Mar 15, 1967 · 75m

John Joe Moran is pulled between the compulsion to leave his small town in Ireland and the desire to stay.

E24. A Breach in the Wall

Mar 22, 1967 · 75m

A parish church is undergoing restoration, when a coffin bearing the seal of Thomas à Becket, the martyred Archbishop of Canterbury, is discovered. Will the discovery help unite the Anglican and Roman Catholic Churches?

E25. The Voices in the Park

Mar 29, 1967 · 75m

The life and passions of a speaker at Hyde Park Corner.

E26. Dismissal Leading to Lustfulness

Apr 5, 1967 · 75m

A young man, newly dismissed from his job, returns home to a party where the other partygoers seem determined that he and a female flatmate should go on holiday together.

E27. A Brilliant Future Behind Him

Apr 12, 1967 · 75m

A minor driving offence is being tried in court, but the case involves a rich young heiress, a dope peddler, and a Shadow Cabinet member.

E28. Message for Posterity

Apr 19, 1967 · 75m

An elderly painter, once radical and confrontational, is given a final commission - to paint the portrait of the former Conservative Prime Minister who represented a totally opposing set of values when they were both young. Both men are now old and of little consequence to the modern generation, but the painter sees his opportunity to make an artistic statement by means of the portrait.

E29. A Way with the Ladies

Apr 26, 1967 · 75m

Josh and Maisie come to Italy after the passing of the old lady who had been living in their sapre room but are soon drawn to another old lady, and try to convince her daughter that she would be better off in their tender care.

E30. The Playground

May 3, 1967 · 75m

Walter has three children, by his estranged wife and his current partner, so he is far too busy to get a job, preferring to spend his time in the playground.