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October 6, 1965

Season 2

01. The War Game

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1h 15min
October 6, 1965

02. Alice

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.

1h 15min
October 13, 1965

03. The Girl Who Loved Robots

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.

1h 15min
October 20, 1965

04. A Designing Woman

Milly has been at it again.

1h 15min
October 27, 1965

05. Up The Junction

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.

1h 15min
November 3, 1965

06. The Trial and Torture of Sir John Rampayne

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

1h 15min
November 10, 1965

07. The End of Arthur's Marriage

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.

1h 15min
November 17, 1965

08. Tomorrow, Just You Wait

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

1h 15min
November 24, 1965

09. The Bond

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.

1h 15min
December 1, 1965

10. Stand Up, Nigel Barton

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.

1h 15min
December 8, 1965

11. Vote, Vote, Vote For Nigel Barton

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

1h 15min
December 15, 1965

12. The Coming Out Party

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

1h 15min
December 22, 1965

13. The Bone Yard

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?

1h 15min
January 5, 1966

14. A Man On Her Back

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.

1h 15min
January 12, 1966

15. Rodney, Our Intrepid Hero

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.

1h 15min
January 19, 1966

16. Calf Love

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

1h 15min
January 26, 1966

17. Silent Song

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

1h 15min
February 2, 1966

18. Who's A Good Boy Then?

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.

1h 15min
February 9, 1966

19. A Game - Like - Only A Game

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

1h 15min
February 16, 1966

20. Why Aren't You Famous?

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.

1h 15min
February 23, 1966

21. Macready's Gala

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

1h 15min
March 2, 1966

22. A Walk In The Sea

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.

1h 15min
March 9, 1966

23. Boy In The Smoke

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1h 15min
March 16, 1966

24. Barlowe of the Car Park

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

1h 15min
March 23, 1966

25. The Portsmouth Defence

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.

March 30, 1966

26. Pity About The Abbey

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

April 6, 1966

27. The Big Man Coughed and Died

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

April 13, 1966

28. The Snow Ball

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

April 20, 1966

29. A Cheery Soul

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

April 27, 1966

30. The Connoiseur

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

May 4, 1966

31. The Retreat

A young priest, newly arrived in Dublin, is conducting a retreat for the first time.

May 11, 1966

32. Ape and Essence

Eighty years after a nuclear war ravaged the British Isles, a team of scientists from New Zealand come to conduct a survey.

May 18, 1966

33. Toddler on the Run

Morris, a homunculus, is under suspicion of having stolen the swimming pool fund from a girls' school.

May 25, 1966

34. The Executioner

Follows the assassination of Leon Trotsky.

June 1, 1966

35. Way Off Beat

Arthur Bradshaw is a successful fixer, with plans to start a night club.

June 8, 1966

36. A Soiree at Blossom's Hotel

A police raid on Edna Bossom's discreet hotel would be most ill-advised, in the opinion of Superintendent Willow; but one of his younger officers is determined to go ahead with one.

June 15, 1966

37. Cock, Hen and Counting Pit

A couple revisit a past love affair when they meet again ten years later.

June 22, 1966