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 (34)
1. The Parachute
Aired 6 August 1969 • 75 min
2. Pitchi Poi
Aired 24 September 1969 • 75 min
3. The Last Train through Harecastle Tunnel
Aired 1 October 1969 • 75 min
A shy clerk suffers from his colleagues petty office politics and contemptuous treatment of him, but this weekend, as a deeply involved train spotter, the closing of an old tunnel is his big adventure. On the way up, he encounters a well off couple with a daughter that hates them, and an Army Sergeant whose men hate him. The hotel he stays at is run by a fellow railway enthusiast, with a gay son that hates him, and he meets a famous signal designer with a daughter that hates him.
4. Patterson O.K.
Aired 8 October 1969 • 75 min
A story about growing up, falling in love and settling old scores in the unfriendly environment of a big city.
5. The Mark II Wife
Aired 15 October 1969 • 75 min
A woman who suspects her husband of having an affair reveals her suspicions at a party.
6. Close the Coalhouse Door
Aired 23 October 1969 • 75 min
The history of the mining industry in the northeast of England is told through family drama, comedy sketches and song.
7. The Sad Decline of Arthur Maybury
Aired 30 October 1969 • 75 min
A schoolmaster takes to drink.
8. All Out for Kangaroo Valley
Aired 5 November 1969 • 75 min
Two young Australians on holiday in London find that the "old country" has its problems.
9. Happy
Aired 12 November 1969 • 75 min
The story of an up-and-coming businessman.
10. There Is Also Tomorrow
Aired 19 November 1969 • 75 min
The commanding officer of a regiment handling nuclear missiles is shocked to see his daughter Sally on television taking part in a student demonstration.
11. The Compartment/Playmates
Aired 26 November 1969 • 75 min
In the first part, an insane man boards a quiet railway coach and starts to annoy a patient man trying to read a paper with incessant small talk in an increasingly menacing manner until he finally pulls out a gun and screaming class hatred bile, humiliates the man until his stop is reached. In part two he breaks into a lonely house and proceeds to terrorise a spinster woman who lives ther
12. Blood of the Lamb
Aired 3 December 1969 • 75 min
A student architect and his black girlfriend set out from South Africa to Britain. On the voyage, the student shares a cabin with an enigmatic Austrian.
13. The Vortex
Aired 10 December 1969 • 75 min
Young Nicky Lancaster must cope with the discovery that his socialite mother is a drug addict.
14. It Wasn't Me
Aired 17 December 1969 • 75 min
A couple seek a desperate remedy to the problem of a burdensome parent.
15. The Season of the Witch
Aired 7 January 1970 • 75 min
A young woman quits her dull job in the typing pool, and goes off on a search for personal freedom.
16. Mille Miglia
Aired 14 January 1970 • 75 min
17. The Hunting of Lionel Crane
Aired 21 January 1970 • 75 min
An army deserter hides out on a country estate but falls foul of the gamekeeper.
18. Rest in Peace, Uncle Fred
Aired 28 January 1970 • 75 min
A tragi-comic study of a Northern funeral.
19. Mad Jack
Aired 4 February 1970 • 75 min
Second Lieutenant Siegfried Sassoon of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers protests the appalling and unnecessary sacrifice of men's lives in the First World War
20. Nathan and Tabileth
Aired 11 February 1970 • 75 min
A young man befriends an elderly couple, claiming to be their grandson.
21. The Italian Table
Aired 18 February 1970 • 75 min
A junk dealer is caught in the middle of a tug-of-war between a woman, her husband and his mistress when they sell a piece of their furniture.
22. The Boy Who Wanted Peace
Aired 25 February 1970 • 75 min
Two Glaswegian youngsters are caught up in sectarian gang warfare.
23. The Cellar and the Almond Tree
Aired 4 March 1970 • 75 min
A former poet, now a Communist Party official in the German Democratic Republic, becomes entangled in the political machinery of a state about to plunge into a succession of Stalinist purges.
24. The Year of the Sex Olympics
Aired 11 March 1970 • 75 min
25. No Trams to Lime Street
Aired 18 March 1970 • 75 min
Three young merchant seamen from Liverpool take shore leave in their home city after three years away.
26. To See How Far It Is 1: Murphy's Law
Aired 25 March 1970 • 75 min
27. To See How Far It Is 2: The Curse of the Donkins
Aired 1 April 1970 • 75 min
28. To See How Far It Is 3: To See How Far It Is
Aired 8 April 1970 • 75 min
29. Wine of India
Aired 15 April 1970
In the year 2050, advances in medicine have resulted in a need for population control. People reaching the age of 100 must submit to a government controlled euthanasia program. The story centres around a 100-year old couple who must now make plans for their funeral.
30. Sovereign's Company
Aired 22 April 1970
A young man from an army family with a long tradition of honour and distinction goes to a military academy as an officer cadet and finds himself temperamentally unsuited to the life.
31. Party Games
Aired 29 April 1970
32. Emma's Time
Aired 6 May 1970
Emma, who lived with an author for the last two years of his life, is involved in a television film about him.
33. Chariot of Fire
Aired 13 May 1970
A prison visitor becomes involved with a convicted sex offender.
34. Wind Vs. Polygamy
Aired 27 May 1970