About this season
Theatre 625 is a British television drama anthology series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1964 to 1968. It was one of the first regular programmes in the line-up of the channel, and the title referred to its production and transmission being in the higher-definition 625-line format, which only BBC2 used at the time.
Episodes (18)
1. Women in Crisis: Husband and Wife
Aired 20 September 1964
The first of three plays by Colin Morris.
2. Women in Crisis: With Love and Tears
Aired 27 September 1964
The second of three plays by Colin Morris.
3. Women in Crisis: My Grandmother
Aired 4 October 1964
The third of a trilogy by Colin Morris. Paintings by children of the Horncastle School, East Grinstead.
4. Carried by Storm
Aired 25 October 1964
5. Parade's End: Some Do Not
Aired 6 December 1964
A trilogy by Ford Madox Ford.
6. Parade's End: No More Parades
Aired 13 December 1964
A trilogy by Ford Madox Ford.
7. Parade's End: A Man Could Stand Up
Aired 20 December 1964
A trilogy by Ford Madox Ford.
8. The Minister
Aired 3 January 1965
9. Poor Bitos
Aired 7 February 1965
10. The Physicists
Aired 14 February 1965
Three patients in a lunatic asylum all claim to be famous physicists. One of them – but which? · actually is a famous physicist, and the agents of a foreign power want his knowledge.
11. Progress to the Park
Aired 14 March 1965
Three plays by Alun Owen.
12. No Trams to Lime Street
Aired 21 March 1965
Three plays by Alun Owen.
13. A Little Winter Love
Aired 28 March 1965
Three plays by Alun Owen.
14. Ironhand
Aired 11 April 1965
16th-century mercenary knight Götz von Berlichingen loses his right hand in battle and has a prosthetic iron hand commissioned.
15. Try For White
Aired 18 April 1965
16. Unman, Wittering and Zigo
Aired 27 June 1965
John Ebony begins a new career as a schoolteacher — and begins to suspect certain pupils of murder.
17. Seek Her Out
Aired 4 July 1965
Anne Follister witnesses an assassination on the London Underground and becomes the next would-be victim of the perpetrators.
18. The Long House
Aired 11 July 1965
Young couple Ben and Kathie buy the end house in a South London Terrace, only to discover that their neighbours have knocked through all their interior walls to form a single commune, unknown to the outside world. Invited to join this alternative community, Ben and Kathie eventually witness its collapse and final destruction.