About this season
BBC anthology drama series that ran over four seasons and replaced the previous BBC Sunday Night Theatre series.
Episodes (37)
1. The Chopping Block
Aired 23 October 1960
2. Looking for Garrow
Aired 30 October 1960
3. A Subject of Scandal and Concern
Aired 6 November 1960
A dramatized account of a Victorian cause celebre, written by John Osborne and concerning the true story of the last person in England to be tried for blasphemy. Richard Burton plays John George Holyoake, a social reformer who goes on trial for speaking in public about his atheist views. Rachel Roberts plays his wife, and the programme is introduced by Face to Face inquisitor John Freeman.
4. The Wind and the Sun
Aired 13 November 1960
5. The Squeeze
Aired 20 November 1960
Big Tom, a Welsh coal miner, has always been in control of his life; but he finds himself increasingly at odds with his growing son, and even begins to wonder if his wife still loves him.
6. The Nightwalkers
Aired 27 November 1960
7. The Assassins
Aired 4 December 1960
Ruthless assassins take over an ordinary suburban home in order to commit a political murder - but where do they come from?
8. The Song of a March Hare
Aired 11 December 1960
9. A Time to Fight
Aired 18 December 1960
10. Tuppence in the Gods
Aired 25 December 1960
11. Nearer to Heaven
Aired 1 January 1961
12. Venus Brown
Aired 8 January 1961
Jack Brown is devoted to his much younger wife, Venus; but she's not the goddess he thinks she is.
13. A Woman Comes Home
Aired 15 January 1961
Will home be the sanctuary Bobbie James needs it to be?
14. Off Centre
Aired 22 January 1961
Joe Hunter must face up to the reality of his existence, and stop having false ideas about himself and his own importance.
15. A Kind of Strength
Aired 29 January 1961
16. The Final Result
Aired 5 February 1961
17. The Intervener
Aired 12 February 1961
18. An Inspector Calls
Aired 19 February 1961
The comfortable lives of the wealthy Birling family are disrupted when an inspector calls on them to ask awkward questions about a girl who has committed suicide.
19. The Mather Story
Aired 26 February 1961
20. A Reason for Staying
Aired 5 March 1961
An Eastern European general who has fled his native country dreams of returning home - and of gaining military power there.
21. Old Mick Mack
Aired 12 March 1961
22. The Wrong Side of the Park
Aired 19 March 1961
23. Fury in Petticoats
Aired 26 March 1961
24. Brian Rix Presents #11: A Fair Cop
Aired 2 April 1961
25. Charley's Aunt
Aired 16 April 1961
Lord Fancourt Babberley is required, much against his will, to impersonate the wealthy aunt of his friend Charley.
26. Scene of the Accident
Aired 30 April 1961
27. Marriage Lines
Aired 14 May 1961
28. Brian Rix Presents #12: Wolf's Clothing
Aired 21 May 1961
29. Home at Seven
Aired 4 June 1961
Mr. Preston always gets home from the office at seven o'clock - but tonight he discovers that a whole day has unaccountably gone missing from his life.
30. A Call on Kuprin: Part 1
Aired 18 June 1961
After the manned satellite, the armed satellite. Kuprin, the Soviet scientist, is working on a warhead for the Chelovyek. But Laye-Parker M.P. and Smith, a Lobby Correspondent at the House of Commons, remember him at Cambridge before the war as an Anglophile married to an English woman. Can they, by a personal approach, persuade him to return to this country?
31. A Call on Kuprin: Part 2
Aired 25 June 1961
Laye-Parker M.P. and Smith, a Lobby Correspondent, have reached Moscow in their search for Kuprin, a Soviet rocket expert whom they knew at Cambridge and whom they hope to persuade to return to England. Now Laye-Parker has been arrested by the M.V.D. on unspecified charges, and Smith, a reluctant partner in the enterprise, must carry on the search alone.
32. That Lady
Aired 9 July 1961
A one-eyed adventuress at the court of Philip II of Spain becomes embroiled in scandal and intrigue.
33. Listen James
Aired 23 July 1961
34. Brian Rix Presents #13: Basinful of the Briny
Aired 6 August 1961
35. The Winslow Boy
Aired 20 August 1961
The Winslow family return from church to their house in South Kensington on a summer morning in 1912 not knowing how their lives will be altered by their son, Ronnie, who has been expelled from Naval College for stealing a five shilling postal order.
36. Wet Fish
Aired 3 September 1961
37. The Hasty Heart
Aired 17 September 1961
It's 1945, Burma, the day the war is over! For many this means they've survived and will be going home. But not for everyone. A Scottish soldier, Corporal Lachlan "Lachie" MacLachlan is the victim of a wound to the lower back on this day. He's moved to a M.A.S.H. unit and undergoes surgery. As time goes by he begins to recover and watches, in dismay as soldiers pack up and head for home. The doctors have told him he needs to remain "for observation". The Colonel takes Sister Parker, the unit head nurse, into his confidence and tells her that the real reason.