About this season
BBC anthology drama series that ran over four seasons and replaced the previous BBC Sunday Night Theatre series.
Episodes (51)
1. The Square Peg
Aired 30 September 1962
2. The Stepfather
Aired 7 October 1962
3. The Slip
Aired 14 October 1962
4. A Suitable Case for Treatment
Aired 21 October 1962
Heavy-drinking Marxist writer Morgan Delt must hold on to his sanity whilst trying to resolve his marital problems.
5. The Big Eat
Aired 28 October 1962
An eating contest is staged for a new TV show - with fatal results.
6. Ruth
Aired 11 November 1962
7. The Aspern Papers
Aired 18 November 1962
A publisher insinuates himself into the mouldering mansion of the centenarian lover of a renowned but long-dead poet in order to find his lost love letter.
8. Libel on a Liar
Aired 25 November 1962
9. The Sudden Silence
Aired 2 December 1962
10. Behind the Line
Aired 9 December 1962
11. Something to Hide
Aired 16 December 1962
12. The Canterville Ghost
Aired 23 December 1962
The ghost of Sir Simon De Canterville has terrified visitors to his family home for centuries - but when a family of Americans rent the place, he's the one who's terrified.
13. Parkin's Primitives
Aired 30 December 1962
14. The Remarkable Incident at Carson Corners
Aired 6 January 1963
15. The Madhouse on Castle Street
Aired 13 January 1963
A man mysteriously locks himself in a room in a boarding house leaving only a note saying he has decided to "retire from the world". His worried sister and the other boarders then try to discover why.
16. Freya of the Seven Isles
Aired 20 January 1963
17. House on Three Floors
Aired 27 January 1963
18. The Reward of Silence
Aired 3 February 1963
19. The Bergonzi Hand
Aired 10 February 1963
20. The Fall of Mendel Krick
Aired 17 February 1963
21. The Prisoner
Aired 24 February 1963
Not to be confused with the 1967 TV series of the same name (also starring Patrick McGoohan), this adaptation of Bridget Boland's 1954 stage play depicts the conflict between a Cardinal (allegedly inspired by real-life Hungarian Cardinal Mindszenty) in an unnamed totalitarian state and the Interrogator who tries to force him into a public abjure of his religious convictions.
22. June Fall
Aired 3 March 1963
Two lonely, unbeautiful people are brought together by a dating agency, and, against all odds, find love.
23. Continuity Man
Aired 10 March 1963
Don and Roz, a very trendy couple, are expecting a Hollywood film actress as their dinner guest, but find they also have to look after Don's very eccentric and contrary father.
24. For Tea on Sunday
Aired 17 March 1963
Three girls sharing living accommodation invite their boyfriends for tea on Sunday. One of the young men arrives carrying an ax over his shoulder.
25. Too Late for Mashed Potato
Aired 24 March 1963
26. The Big Donkey
Aired 31 March 1963
27. Just You Wait
Aired 7 April 1963
28. The Holly Road Rig
Aired 14 April 1963
29. A Little Bit of Gold Said 'Jump'
Aired 21 April 1963
30. A Deadly Hush
Aired 28 April 1963
31. A Right Crusader
Aired 5 May 1963
32. I'm Not Stopping
Aired 12 May 1963
33. The Fly Sham
Aired 19 May 1963
34. How to Get Rid of Your Wife
Aired 26 May 1963
Mild-mannered and unassuming, Gerald Swinney has had enough of his nagging, domineering wife. So he resolves, not to kill her, but simply to "get rid" of her.
35. So Long Charlie
Aired 2 June 1963
36. Trial Run
Aired 9 June 1963
37. The Full Chatter
Aired 16 June 1963
An eccentric teacher dreams of finding fame as a novelist; but everything in his life seems to conspire against him.
38. Dial Rix #7: Skin Deep
Aired 23 June 1963
39. She's a Free Country
Aired 30 June 1963
40. You Can't Throw Your Mates
Aired 7 July 1963
41. Take the Plunge
Aired 14 July 1963
Douglas has fallen in love with an American girl and is perturbed to find, at the same time, that he really must get a job at last.
42. The Shadow of Mart
Aired 21 July 1963
About the foolish and lost Gabriel who lives entirely in the shadow of his brother, the brave soldier Mart who died in the war and is continuously immortalised by the dominant mother.
43. The Joker
Aired 28 July 1963
44. The Sponge Room
Aired 4 August 1963
45. Night Express
Aired 11 August 1963
46. Pig in the Middle
Aired 18 August 1963
47. The Greevey Column
Aired 25 August 1963
48. Plain Jane
Aired 1 September 1963
49. Two by the Sea #1: See the Pretty Lights
Aired 8 September 1963
50. Two by the Sea #2: Wedding Bells
Aired 8 September 1963
51. The Affair
Aired 15 September 1963
A young fellow of a Cambridge college is accused of fraud and dismissed. Based on the eighth novel in C.P. Snow's "Strangers and Brothers" series.