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 (27)
1. The Memorandum
Aired 24 September 1967
2. The Lost Years of Brian Hooper
Aired 8 October 1967
3. The Magicians: Dr Dee, Kelly and the Spirits
Aired 15 October 1967
4. The Magicians: The Incantation of Casanova
Aired 22 October 1967
5. The Magicians: Edmund Gurney and the Brighton Mesmerist
Aired 29 October 1967
6. The Single Passion
Aired 5 November 1967
7. The Burning Bush
Aired 12 November 1967
8. Kittens Are Brave
Aired 26 November 1967
9. Lieutenant Tenant
Aired 4 December 1967
10. Play with a Tiger
Aired 18 December 1967
11. To See How Far It Is: Murphy's Law
Aired 1 January 1968 • 75 min
Murphy is a humble pen-pusher in a cardboard box factory who tries to brighten his life with home movies, tape-recording, and homemade wine. But success can come from failure...
12. To See How Far It Is: The Curse of the Donkins
Aired 8 January 1968
13. To See How Far It Is: To See How Far It Is
Aired 15 January 1968
14. Albinos in Black
Aired 22 January 1968
15. The Swallow's Nest
Aired 29 January 1968
16. The Lady Is a Liar
Aired 26 February 1968 • 90 min
17. To the Frontier
Aired 4 March 1968
18. Party Games
Aired 11 March 1968 • 75 min
A German businessman develops an obsessive passion for a girl he picks up in an East End pub. But she, and her brother, are playing their own game.
19. The Fall of Kelvin Walker
Aired 22 April 1968
20. The Fanatics
Aired 29 April 1968
An account of the famous 'Calas case', in which Voltaire managed, at great personal risk, to set right an injustice.
21. Home, Sweet Honeycomb
Aired 13 May 1968
Anyone who doesn't conform to bourgeois norms in a post-apocalyptic world is ritually executed.
22. The Pistol Shot
Aired 20 May 1968
23. The Life Class
Aired 27 May 1968
24. All's Well That Ends Well
Aired 3 June 1968
A woman is given in marriage to the man she longs for, but, because she's of lower rank, he refuses to accept. It becomes her challenge to win his acceptance.
25. Wind Versus Polygamy
Aired 15 July 1968 • 75 min
When Councillor Ogidi and Mr Madu come to Chief Ozuomba's court, both wanting to marry Elina, the Chief sees his chance to oppose the new anti-polygamy law.
26. The Year of the Sex Olympics
Aired 29 July 1968 • 105 min
In a future where the world is dominated and run by television, where language has become almost redundant and all 'tensions' - love, war, hate, loyalty - have been removed, overpopulation is a problem, so there are gluttony programmes to put people off food and pornography programmes to put them off sex. There is artsex and sportsex, and now this - the year of the Sex Olympics. Audience attention begins to wane, however, until TV executive Ugo Priest works on a new concept - a reality-based programme in which a couple is stranded on a bleak island, without the aid of any modern technology, and their efforts to survive filmed twenty-four hours a day.
27. Mille Miglia
Aired 5 August 1968