Series 4

Series 4 (1966)


Episodes: 30

Star Cast:



Episodes List

Ep.1 Talking to a Stranger, Part 1: Anytime You're Ready I'll Sparkle

Air Date: 1966-10-02

Over the course of a single weekend, the Stevens family's lives will change forever.

Ep.2 Talking to a Stranger, Part 2: No Skill or Special Knowledge is Required

Air Date: 1966-10-09

Over the course of a single weekend, the Stevens family's lives will change forever.

Ep.3 Talking to a Stranger, Part 3: Gladly My Cross-Eyed Bear

Air Date: 1966-10-16

Over the course of a single weekend, the Stevens family's lives will change forever.

Ep.4 Talking to a Stranger, Part 4: The Innocent Must Suffer

Air Date: 1966-10-23

Over the course of a single weekend, the Stevens family's lives will change forever.

Ep.5 Conquest: The Encounter

Air Date: 1966-10-29

Ep.6 Conquest: The Leopard and the Dragon

Air Date: 1966-10-30

Ep.7 Amerika

Air Date: 1966-11-06

After a minor scandal involving a servant girl, young Karl is packed off to America, a land he finds distinctly strange.

Ep.8 The Family Reunion

Air Date: 1966-11-27

Dark secrets emerge when a family gathers for a birthday party at their country house.

Ep.9 Anatol

Air Date: 1966-12-04

Ep.10 Sword of Honour, Part 1: Men at Arms

Air Date: 1967-01-02

Prevented by his strict Roman Catholicism from divorcing his faithless wife, Guy Crouchback prepares for war in 1939.

Ep.11 Sword of Honour, Part 2: Officers and Gentlemen

Air Date: 1967-01-09

As he journeys through the Second World War, Crouchback undergoes various grotesque adventures, both comic and tragic.

Ep.12 Sword of Honour, Part 3: Unconditional Surrender

Air Date: 1967-01-16

At the end of the war, Crouchback ponders his future.

Ep.13 A Slight Ache

Air Date: 1967-02-06

Married couple Edward and Flora explore their dreams and desires, primarily Edward's fears of the unknown, of aging, and of the 'Other' as a threat to his self-identity.

Ep.14 A Night Out

Air Date: 1967-02-13

Albert, a shy and repressed young man who lives with his mother, is persuaded to go for 'a night out' with his workmates; it turns nightmarish.

Ep.15 The Basement

Air Date: 1967-02-20

An uneasy friendship between an introspective loner and a more gregarious man is renewed when the latter turns up at the former's basement flat one rainy night accompanied by an enigmatic, beautiful, mostly silent, girlfriend.

Ep.16 Hotel Torpe

Air Date: 1967-03-13

Ep.17 As a Man Grows Older

Air Date: 1967-04-03

Ep.18 Kain

Air Date: 1967-04-17

Brothers Kain and Rattler Sutherland live on a Northern Territory station. The unstable Kain clashes with the more laid-back Rattler over several issues - money, treatment of local Blacks, cattle, but most of all, their Aboriginal housemaid, Kaita, whom Kain is convinced Rattler has impregnated.

Ep.19 The Loser

Air Date: 1967-05-01

Ep.20 The Winner

Air Date: 1967-05-08

Ep.21 The Fantasist

Air Date: 1967-05-15

Ep.22 The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

Air Date: 1967-05-29

Ep.23 The Blood Knot

Air Date: 1967-06-12

Ep.24 Henry IV

Air Date: 1967-06-26

In twentieth-century Italy, a man insists that he is Enrico Quattro, an Italian monarch from centuries before. Obviously, he's a madman - isn't he?

Ep.25 Firebrand

Air Date: 1967-07-02

Ep.26 The Plough and the Stars

Air Date: 1967-07-16

A husband clashes with his wife over his membership to the Irish citizen army.

Ep.27 Tickle Times

Air Date: 1967-07-30

Ep.28 55 Columns

Air Date: 1967-08-06

Ep.29 Stan's Day Out

Air Date: 1967-08-13

Ep.30 The Cupboard

Air Date: 1967-08-20