Season 6

E1. The Parachute

Aug 6, 1969 · 75m

Written by David Mercer. Repeat of Play of the Month 21 January 1968. Repeated also 1 September 1976 on BBC2 and 29 November 1980 on BBC2, on 23 June 1988.

E2. Pitchi Poi

Sep 24, 1969 · 75m

E3. The Last Train through Harecastle Tunnel

Oct 1, 1969 · 75m

A shy clerk suffers from his colleagues petty office politics and contemptuous treatment of him, but this weekend, as a deeply involved train spotter, the closing of an old tunnel is his big adventure. On the way up, he encounters a well off couple with a daughter that hates them, and an Army Sergeant whose men hate him. The hotel he stays at is run by a fellow railway enthusiast, with a gay son that hates him, and he meets a famous signal designer with a daughter that hates him.

E4. Patterson O.K.

Oct 8, 1969 · 75m

A story about growing up, falling in love and settling old scores in the unfriendly environment of a big city.

E5. The Mark II Wife

Oct 15, 1969 · 75m

A woman who suspects her husband of having an affair reveals her suspicions at a party.

E6. Close the Coalhouse Door

Oct 23, 1969 · 75m

The history of the mining industry in the northeast of England is told through family drama, comedy sketches and song.

E7. The Sad Decline of Arthur Maybury

Oct 30, 1969 · 75m

A schoolmaster takes to drink.

E8. All Out for Kangaroo Valley

Nov 5, 1969 · 75m

Two young Australians on holiday in London find that the "old country" has its problems.

E9. Happy

Nov 12, 1969 · 75m

The story of an up-and-coming businessman.

E10. There Is Also Tomorrow

Nov 19, 1969 · 75m

The commanding officer of a regiment handling nuclear missiles is shocked to see his daughter Sally on television taking part in a student demonstration.

E11. The Compartment/Playmates

Nov 26, 1969 · 75m

In the first part, an insane man boards a quiet railway coach and starts to annoy a patient man trying to read a paper with incessant small talk in an increasingly menacing manner until he finally pulls out a gun and screaming class hatred bile, humiliates the man until his stop is reached. In part two he breaks into a lonely house and proceeds to terrorise a spinster woman who lives ther

E12. Blood of the Lamb

Dec 3, 1969 · 75m

A student architect and his black girlfriend set out from South Africa to Britain. On the voyage, the student shares a cabin with an enigmatic Austrian.

E13. The Vortex

Dec 10, 1969 · 75m

Young Nicky Lancaster must cope with the discovery that his socialite mother is a drug addict.

E14. It Wasn't Me

Dec 17, 1969 · 75m

A couple seek a desperate remedy to the problem of a burdensome parent.

E15. The Season of the Witch

Jan 7, 1970 · 75m

A young woman quits her dull job in the typing pool, and goes off on a search for personal freedom.

E16. Mille Miglia

Jan 14, 1970 · 75m

E17. The Hunting of Lionel Crane

Jan 21, 1970 · 75m

An army deserter hides out on a country estate but falls foul of the gamekeeper.

E18. Rest in Peace, Uncle Fred

Jan 28, 1970 · 75m

A tragi-comic study of a Northern funeral.

E19. Mad Jack

Feb 4, 1970 · 75m

Second Lieutenant Siegfried Sassoon of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers protests the appalling and unnecessary sacrifice of men's lives in the First World War

E20. Nathan and Tabileth

Feb 11, 1970 · 75m

A young man befriends an elderly couple, claiming to be their grandson.

E21. The Italian Table

Feb 18, 1970 · 75m

A junk dealer is caught in the middle of a tug-of-war between a woman, her husband and his mistress when they sell a piece of their furniture.

E22. The Boy Who Wanted Peace

Feb 25, 1970 · 75m

Two Glaswegian youngsters are caught up in sectarian gang warfare.

E23. The Cellar and the Almond Tree

Mar 4, 1970 · 75m

A former poet, now a Communist Party official in the German Democratic Republic, becomes entangled in the political machinery of a state about to plunge into a succession of Stalinist purges.

E24. The Year of the Sex Olympics

Mar 11, 1970 · 75m

E25. No Trams to Lime Street

Mar 18, 1970 · 75m

Three young merchant seamen from Liverpool take shore leave in their home city after three years away.

E26. To See How Far It Is 1: Murphy's Law

Mar 25, 1970 · 75m

E27. To See How Far It Is 2: The Curse of the Donkins

Apr 1, 1970 · 75m

E28. To See How Far It Is 3: To See How Far It Is

Apr 8, 1970 · 75m

E29. Wine of India

Apr 15, 1970 · 75m

In the year 2050, advances in medicine have resulted in a need for population control. People reaching the age of 100 must submit to a government controlled euthanasia program. The story centres around a 100-year old couple who must now make plans for their funeral.

E30. Sovereign's Company

Apr 22, 1970 · 75m

A young man from an army family with a long tradition of honour and distinction goes to a military academy as an officer cadet and finds himself temperamentally unsuited to the life.