About this season
A half-hour (later 60 minute) drama anthology series based on the works of renowned English author William Somerset Maugham, who appears in the opening and closing of each episode.
Episodes (13)
1. S2.E1 ∙ The Four Dutchmen
Aired 4 November 1960 • 60 min
2. S2.E2 ∙ The Kite
Aired 11 November 1960 • 60 min
Young Herbert's only passion seems to be flying his kite - but then he meets a girl.
3. S2.E3 ∙ Before the Party
Aired 18 November 1960 • 60 min
4. S2.E4 ∙ Gigolo and Gigolette
Aired 25 November 1960 • 60 min
5. S2.E5 ∙ The Ant and the Grasshopper
Aired 2 December 1960 • 60 min
The Ramsay brothers couldn't be more different - one is hard-working, quiet, and fearfully proper, the other an indolent spendthrift playboy. But appearances can be deceptive.
6. S2.E6 ∙ The Verger
Aired 9 December 1960 • 60 min
The inability to read seems a setback for the verger - but it's not such a disadvantage as people suppose.
7. S2.E7 ∙ A Man with a Conscience
Aired 16 December 1960 • 60 min
8. S2.E8 ∙ The Human Element
Aired 23 December 1960 • 60 min
9. S2.E9 ∙ The Letter
Aired 30 December 1960 • 60 min
The wife of a rubber plantation administrator shoots a man to death and claims it was self-defense; a letter in her own hand may prove her undoing.
10. S2.E10 ∙ The Romantic Young Lady
Aired 6 January 1961 • 60 min
11. S2.E11 ∙ The Door of Opportunity
Aired 13 January 1961 • 60 min
12. S2.E12 ∙ The Mother
Aired 20 January 1961 • 60 min
13. S2.E13 ∙ A Woman of Fifty
Aired 27 January 1961 • 60 min