Episodes List

Ep.1 The Square Peg

Air Date: 1962-09-30

Ep.2 The Stepfather

Air Date: 1962-10-07

Ep.3 The Slip

Air Date: 1962-10-14

Ep.4 A Suitable Case for Treatment

Air Date: 1962-10-21

Heavy-drinking Marxist writer Morgan Delt must hold on to his sanity whilst trying to resolve his marital problems.

Ep.5 The Big Eat

Air Date: 1962-10-28

An eating contest is staged for a new TV show - with fatal results.

Ep.6 Ruth

Air Date: 1962-11-11

Ep.7 The Aspern Papers

Air Date: 1962-11-18

A publisher insinuates himself into the mouldering mansion of the centenarian lover of a renowned but long-dead poet in order to find his lost love letter.

Ep.8 Libel on a Liar

Air Date: 1962-11-25

Ep.9 The Sudden Silence

Air Date: 1962-12-02

Ep.10 Behind the Line

Air Date: 1962-12-09

Ep.11 Something to Hide

Air Date: 1962-12-16

Ep.12 The Canterville Ghost

Air Date: 1962-12-23

The ghost of Sir Simon De Canterville has terrified visitors to his family home for centuries - but when a family of Americans rent the place, he's the one who's terrified.

Ep.13 Parkin's Primitives

Air Date: 1962-12-30

Ep.14 The Remarkable Incident at Carson Corners

Air Date: 1963-01-06

Ep.15 The Madhouse on Castle Street

Air Date: 1963-01-13

A man mysteriously locks himself in a room in a boarding house leaving only a note saying he has decided to "retire from the world". His worried sister and the other boarders then try to discover why.

Ep.16 Freya of the Seven Isles

Air Date: 1963-01-20

Ep.17 House on Three Floors

Air Date: 1963-01-27

Ep.18 The Reward of Silence

Air Date: 1963-02-03

Ep.19 The Bergonzi Hand

Air Date: 1963-02-10

Ep.20 The Fall of Mendel Krick

Air Date: 1963-02-17

Ep.21 The Prisoner

Air Date: 1963-02-24

Not to be confused with the 1967 TV series of the same name (also starring Patrick McGoohan), this adaptation of Bridget Boland's 1954 stage play depicts the conflict between a Cardinal (allegedly inspired by real-life Hungarian Cardinal Mindszenty) in an unnamed totalitarian state and the Interrogator who tries to force him into a public abjure of his religious convictions.

Ep.22 June Fall

Air Date: 1963-03-03

Two lonely, unbeautiful people are brought together by a dating agency, and, against all odds, find love.

Ep.23 Continuity Man

Air Date: 1963-03-10

Don and Roz, a very trendy couple, are expecting a Hollywood film actress as their dinner guest, but find they also have to look after Don's very eccentric and contrary father.

Ep.24 For Tea on Sunday

Air Date: 1963-03-17

Three girls sharing living accommodation invite their boyfriends for tea on Sunday. One of the young men arrives carrying an ax over his shoulder.

Ep.25 Too Late for Mashed Potato

Air Date: 1963-03-24

Ep.26 The Big Donkey

Air Date: 1963-03-31

Ep.27 Just You Wait

Air Date: 1963-04-07

Ep.28 The Holly Road Rig

Air Date: 1963-04-14

Ep.29 A Little Bit of Gold Said 'Jump'

Air Date: 1963-04-21

Ep.30 A Deadly Hush

Air Date: 1963-04-28

Ep.31 A Right Crusader

Air Date: 1963-05-05

Ep.32 I'm Not Stopping

Air Date: 1963-05-12

Ep.33 The Fly Sham

Air Date: 1963-05-19

Ep.34 How to Get Rid of Your Wife

Air Date: 1963-05-26

Mild-mannered and unassuming, Gerald Swinney has had enough of his nagging, domineering wife. So he resolves, not to kill her, but simply to "get rid" of her.

Ep.35 So Long Charlie

Air Date: 1963-06-02

Ep.36 Trial Run

Air Date: 1963-06-09

Ep.37 The Full Chatter

Air Date: 1963-06-16

An eccentric teacher dreams of finding fame as a novelist; but everything in his life seems to conspire against him.

Ep.38 Dial Rix #7: Skin Deep

Air Date: 1963-06-23

Ep.39 She's a Free Country

Air Date: 1963-06-30

Ep.40 You Can't Throw Your Mates

Air Date: 1963-07-07

Ep.41 Take the Plunge

Air Date: 1963-07-14

Douglas has fallen in love with an American girl and is perturbed to find, at the same time, that he really must get a job at last.

Ep.42 The Shadow of Mart

Air Date: 1963-07-21

About the foolish and lost Gabriel who lives entirely in the shadow of his brother, the brave soldier Mart who died in the war and is continuously immortalised by the dominant mother.

Ep.43 The Joker

Air Date: 1963-07-28

Ep.44 The Sponge Room

Air Date: 1963-08-04

Ep.45 Night Express

Air Date: 1963-08-11

Ep.46 Pig in the Middle

Air Date: 1963-08-18

Ep.47 The Greevey Column

Air Date: 1963-08-25

Ep.48 Plain Jane

Air Date: 1963-09-01

Ep.49 Two by the Sea #1: See the Pretty Lights

Air Date: 1963-09-08

Ep.50 Two by the Sea #2: Wedding Bells

Air Date: 1963-09-08

Ep.51 The Affair

Air Date: 1963-09-15

A young fellow of a Cambridge college is accused of fraud and dismissed. Based on the eighth novel in C.P. Snow's "Strangers and Brothers" series.