Season 6 (1969)
Episodes: 34
Star Cast:
Episodes List
Ep.1 The Parachute
Air Date: 1969-08-06
Ep.2 Pitchi Poi
Air Date: 1969-09-24
Ep.3 The Last Train through Harecastle Tunnel
Air Date: 1969-10-01
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.
Ep.4 Patterson O.K.
Air Date: 1969-10-08
A story about growing up, falling in love and settling old scores in the unfriendly environment of a big city.
Ep.5 The Mark II Wife
Air Date: 1969-10-15
A woman who suspects her husband of having an affair reveals her suspicions at a party.
Ep.6 Close the Coalhouse Door
Air Date: 1969-10-23
The history of the mining industry in the northeast of England is told through family drama, comedy sketches and song.
Ep.7 The Sad Decline of Arthur Maybury
Air Date: 1969-10-30
A schoolmaster takes to drink.
Ep.8 All Out for Kangaroo Valley
Air Date: 1969-11-05
Two young Australians on holiday in London find that the "old country" has its problems.
Ep.9 Happy
Air Date: 1969-11-12
The story of an up-and-coming businessman.
Ep.10 There Is Also Tomorrow
Air Date: 1969-11-19
The commanding officer of a regiment handling nuclear missiles is shocked to see his daughter Sally on television taking part in a student demonstration.
Ep.11 The Compartment/Playmates
Air Date: 1969-11-26
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
Ep.12 Blood of the Lamb
Air Date: 1969-12-03
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.
Ep.13 The Vortex
Air Date: 1969-12-10
Young Nicky Lancaster must cope with the discovery that his socialite mother is a drug addict.
Ep.14 It Wasn't Me
Air Date: 1969-12-17
A couple seek a desperate remedy to the problem of a burdensome parent.
Ep.15 The Season of the Witch
Air Date: 1970-01-07
A young woman quits her dull job in the typing pool, and goes off on a search for personal freedom.
Ep.16 Mille Miglia
Air Date: 1970-01-14
Ep.17 The Hunting of Lionel Crane
Air Date: 1970-01-21
An army deserter hides out on a country estate but falls foul of the gamekeeper.
Ep.18 Rest in Peace, Uncle Fred
Air Date: 1970-01-28
A tragi-comic study of a Northern funeral.
Ep.19 Mad Jack
Air Date: 1970-02-04
Second Lieutenant Siegfried Sassoon of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers protests the appalling and unnecessary sacrifice of men's lives in the First World War
Ep.20 Nathan and Tabileth
Air Date: 1970-02-11
A young man befriends an elderly couple, claiming to be their grandson.
Ep.21 The Italian Table
Air Date: 1970-02-18
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.
Ep.22 The Boy Who Wanted Peace
Air Date: 1970-02-25
Two Glaswegian youngsters are caught up in sectarian gang warfare.
Ep.23 The Cellar and the Almond Tree
Air Date: 1970-03-04
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.
Ep.24 The Year of the Sex Olympics
Air Date: 1970-03-11
Ep.25 No Trams to Lime Street
Air Date: 1970-03-18
Three young merchant seamen from Liverpool take shore leave in their home city after three years away.
Ep.26 To See How Far It Is 1: Murphy's Law
Air Date: 1970-03-25
Ep.27 To See How Far It Is 2: The Curse of the Donkins
Air Date: 1970-04-01
Ep.28 To See How Far It Is 3: To See How Far It Is
Air Date: 1970-04-08
Ep.29 Wine of India
Air Date: 1970-04-15
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.
Ep.30 Sovereign's Company
Air Date: 1970-04-22
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.
Ep.31 Party Games
Air Date: 1970-04-29
Ep.32 Emma's Time
Air Date: 1970-05-06
Emma, who lived with an author for the last two years of his life, is involved in a television film about him.
Ep.33 Chariot of Fire
Air Date: 1970-05-13
A prison visitor becomes involved with a convicted sex offender.