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 (30)
1. Talking to a Stranger, Part 1: Anytime You're Ready I'll Sparkle
Aired 2 October 1966 • 90 min
Over the course of a single weekend, the Stevens family's lives will change forever.
2. Talking to a Stranger, Part 2: No Skill or Special Knowledge is Required
Aired 9 October 1966 • 90 min
Over the course of a single weekend, the Stevens family's lives will change forever.
3. Talking to a Stranger, Part 3: Gladly My Cross-Eyed Bear
Aired 16 October 1966 • 90 min
Over the course of a single weekend, the Stevens family's lives will change forever.
4. Talking to a Stranger, Part 4: The Innocent Must Suffer
Aired 23 October 1966 • 90 min
Over the course of a single weekend, the Stevens family's lives will change forever.
5. Conquest: The Encounter
Aired 29 October 1966
6. Conquest: The Leopard and the Dragon
Aired 30 October 1966
7. Amerika
Aired 6 November 1966 • 120 min
After a minor scandal involving a servant girl, young Karl is packed off to America, a land he finds distinctly strange.
8. The Family Reunion
Aired 27 November 1966
Dark secrets emerge when a family gathers for a birthday party at their country house.
9. Anatol
Aired 4 December 1966
10. Sword of Honour, Part 1: Men at Arms
Aired 2 January 1967
Prevented by his strict Roman Catholicism from divorcing his faithless wife, Guy Crouchback prepares for war in 1939.
11. Sword of Honour, Part 2: Officers and Gentlemen
Aired 9 January 1967
As he journeys through the Second World War, Crouchback undergoes various grotesque adventures, both comic and tragic.
12. Sword of Honour, Part 3: Unconditional Surrender
Aired 16 January 1967
At the end of the war, Crouchback ponders his future.
13. A Slight Ache
Aired 6 February 1967 • 58 min
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.
14. A Night Out
Aired 13 February 1967 • 60 min
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.
15. The Basement
Aired 20 February 1967 • 55 min
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.
16. Hotel Torpe
Aired 13 March 1967
17. As a Man Grows Older
Aired 3 April 1967
18. Kain
Aired 17 April 1967
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.
19. The Loser
Aired 1 May 1967
20. The Winner
Aired 8 May 1967
21. The Fantasist
Aired 15 May 1967
22. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
Aired 29 May 1967
23. The Blood Knot
Aired 12 June 1967
24. Henry IV
Aired 26 June 1967
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?
25. Firebrand
Aired 2 July 1967
26. The Plough and the Stars
Aired 16 July 1967
A husband clashes with his wife over his membership to the Irish citizen army.
27. Tickle Times
Aired 30 July 1967
28. 55 Columns
Aired 6 August 1967
29. Stan's Day Out
Aired 13 August 1967
30. The Cupboard
Aired 20 August 1967