Episodes List

Ep.1 Big Brain Man

Air Date: 1960-09-11

Much to the delight of fellow tenants, a tenant becomes the landlord. Their delight is short lived when he starts behaving just like the previous landlord.

Ep.2 A Heart and a Diamond

Air Date: 1960-09-18

Ep.3 Lena, O My Lena

Air Date: 1960-09-25

Tom, a sensitive Liverpool student, takes a job on a loading dock in a Lancashire factory town. He becomes smitten with a girl named Lena who works in the machine shop next door, and despite a bullying driver who claims her for herself, he manages to take her out on a date.

Ep.4 Pig's Ear with Flowers

Air Date: 1960-10-02

Ep.5 Thunder on the Snowy

Air Date: 1960-10-09

Ep.6 The Siege at Killyfaddy

Air Date: 1960-10-16

Ep.7 I'll Have You to Remember

Air Date: 1960-10-23

A retired couple with many unresolved old scores to settle, argue and bicker while their world decays around them.

Ep.8 My Representative

Air Date: 1960-10-30

Ambition takes hold of fashion-house salesman Ronnie Page as he forgets those closest to him in his desire for a successful career.

Ep.9 The Cake Baker

Air Date: 1960-11-06

Ep.10 Hail the Conquering Hero

Air Date: 1960-11-13

Ep.11 The Stranger

Air Date: 1960-11-20

Ep.12 Mr Nobody

Air Date: 1960-11-27

Ep.13 Clip Joint People

Air Date: 1960-12-04

Ep.14 The Cupboard

Air Date: 1960-12-11

When Fred Watson's wife and landlady disappear, and he is seen papering over two cupboards in his bedroom, the police are called in.

Ep.15 Rain

Air Date: 1960-12-18

A prostitute finds redemption in Pago Pago thanks to a hard missionary man.

Ep.16 The Great Gold Bullion Robbery

Air Date: 1960-12-25

Robbery from a moving train? Impossible.

Ep.17 A Head Full of Crocodiles

Air Date: 1961-01-01

Ep.18 Till the Day I Die

Air Date: 1961-01-08

Ep.19 The Mystery of Martin Wheeler

Air Date: 1961-01-15

Ep.20 The Picture of Dorian Gray

Air Date: 1961-01-22

A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all.

Ep.21 Honeymoon Postponed

Air Date: 1961-01-29

Lancashire newlyweds Violet and Arthur Fitton are forced to postpone their honeymoon and move in temporarily with his parents.

Ep.22 A Degree of Murder

Air Date: 1961-02-05

A man and his wife plan to murder his eccentric wealthy sister.

Ep.23 Strangers in the Room

Air Date: 1961-02-12

Ep.24 The Money Makers

Air Date: 1961-02-19

Ep.25 Tune on an Apron-String

Air Date: 1961-02-26

Ep.26 The Big Deal

Air Date: 1961-03-03

Unscrupulous business Sir Pierson Cale is determined to win the contract to build a power station. He sees John Hamilton as someone who can get the job done but he wants him to bid half a million less than his nearest competitor.

Ep.27 The Man Out There

Air Date: 1961-03-12

A Russian astronaut trapped in space in a faulty rocket, has five hours to live when his radio makes contact with Marie, a hunter's wife also trapped, in a blizzard swept area of Canada. Her daughter is dying of diphtheria, he as a doctor can help her.

Ep.28 The Conscientious Gauger

Air Date: 1961-03-26

Ep.29 The Way of Love

Air Date: 1961-04-09

Ep.30 The Hero

Air Date: 1961-04-23

Ep.31 Danger! Men Working

Air Date: 1961-05-21

In Ulster, Major Trumbull is put in charge of overseeing the completion of a hospital on time. As the pressure increases, he replaces well-liked foreman Desmond Doherty with brash Scanling, which angers the men.

Ep.32 No Licence for Singing

Air Date: 1961-05-21

Ep.33 Flying High

Air Date: 1961-04-23

Ep.34 Man on a Mountain Top

Air Date: 1961-04-30

A writer who lives in carefully-protected seclusion does not welcome a young woman's intrusion into his life.

Ep.35 Duel for Love

Air Date: 1961-05-07

Ep.36 The Ship That Couldn't Stop

Air Date: 1961-05-14

A ship powered by a nuclear reactor, is heading for the port of New York and is unable to slow down.

Ep.37 The Truth About Helen

Air Date: 1961-05-21

Ep.38 The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

Air Date: 1961-05-28

The younger son of a working-class Jewish family in Montreal, Duddy Kravitz yearns to make a name for himself in society. This film chronicles his short and dubious rise to power, as well as his changing relationships with family and friends. Along the way the film explores the themes of anti-semitism and the responsibilities which come with adulthood.

Ep.39 The Typists

Air Date: 1961-06-04

We see two typists aging as they spend 40 years together in the same office.

Ep.40 The Night of the Apes

Air Date: 1961-06-11

After Clive is dishonourably discharged from the army for failing to shoot an unarmed terrorist, he finds his return to his hometown no easy matter.