About this season
An anthology series of television plays which aired on BBC1 from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually written for television, although adaptations from other sources also featured.
Episodes (27)
1. Mrs Lawrence Will Look After It
Aired 21 August 1968 • 75 min
When an elderly woman is hospitalised, the truth behind her illegal adoption of 14 children is revealed.
2. Spoiled
Aired 28 August 1968 • 75 min
A schoolmaster invites a nineteen-year-old student to stay with him and his wife to cram for imminent exams.
3. The Gorge
Aired 4 September 1968 • 75 min
A teenage boy reluctantly accompanies his ghastly family on a coarse bank-holiday day out to local beauty spot and tourist trap, the Cheddar Gorge.
4. A Night with Mrs. Da Tanka
Aired 11 September 1968 • 75 min
A lonely bachelor, seeking his long-lost sweetheart at a boarding house, meets a serial divorcée.
5. Charlie
Aired 18 September 1968
James has come in search of his feckless older brother, Charlie, to ask him to come home and settle down.
6. Anyone For Tennis?
Aired 25 September 1968
Garry committed suicide to escape disgrace and imprisonment. Does he now have the chance to change the circumstances leading to his downfall?
7. Mooney and his Caravans
Aired 2 October 1968
A couple move to a caravan park, where the owner is a petty dictator.
8. The Lower Largo Sequence
Aired 9 October 1968
A man seeks his inner island.
9. Hello, Good Evening and Welcome
Aired 16 October 1968
A talk-show host is required to examine his conscience and also the ethics of "good television".
10. A Bit of Crucifixion, Father
Aired 23 October 1968
A doctor advises a woman not to proceed with her latest pregnancy, contrary to her strict Catholic upbringing.
11. Nothing Will be The Same
Aired 30 October 1968
A family becomes increasingly suspicious of the relationship between the mother and a mysterious stranger who starts to follow her around.
12. A Beast With Two Backs
Aired 6 November 1968
An isolated New Forest community in 19th Century Britain. A young local girl is murdered by a mentally disturbed youth, but the villagers blame a stranger, an Italian traveling showman and his bear, rather than see the rot in their own camp.
13. On the Eve of Publication
Aired 27 November 1968
An author hosts a dinner party to celebrate the publication of his new novel.
14. The Fabulous Frump
Aired 8 January 1969
A fashion editor competes for the affections of a designer with their new male model.
15. Smoke Screen
Aired 15 January 1969
A successful advertising executive who promotes a brand of cigarettes is reproached by his family when his mother contracts terminal lung cancer.
16. Dr. Aitkinson's Daughter
Aired 21 January 1969
After a year as a Volunteer Service Overseas worker, a young woman returns home in search of love and understanding.
17. The Apprentices
Aired 29 January 1969
A portrait of the life of some Northern apprentices.
18. Birthday
Aired 5 February 1969
A woman unwittingly springs a surprise at her sister's 27th birthday party.
19. The Big Flame
Aired 12 February 1969
Dock workers under the threat of redundancy, work day and night in an attempt to keep employed by running the workforce themselves.
20. A Serpent in Putney
Aired 19 February 1969
An off-beat romance in bed-sitter land.
21. Bami Powl Zapl
Aired 5 March 1969
A young man bitterly regrets his part in an attack on a bank cashier.
22. Cathy Come Home
Aired 28 March 1969
A play about a British woman's descent into poverty and homelessness because of her country's rigid and problem-ridden welfare system.
23. Sling Your Hook
Aired 2 April 1969
A group of coal miners from Nottingham go on their annual trip to Blackpool.
24. A Child and a Half
Aired 9 April 1969
A man enters into a correspondence with his colleague's eight-year-old daughter.
25. Son of Man
Aired 16 April 1969
Dennis Potter's controversial reading of the life of Christ, with Jesus portrayed as a hearty, fiery, well-meaning carpenter who believes that people should try to love their enemies rather than fight all the time, but who is racked by self doubt as to whether or not he is the popularly anticipated Messiah.
26. The Exiles
Aired 23 April 1969
Three Trinidadians consider what it means to be exiles in an essentially white society.
27. Blodwen, Home from Rachel's Marriage
Aired 30 April 1969
The daughter of a religious Welsh family becomes the centrepiece of a bizarre student festival.