Season 1

1. Catch As Catch Can

Based on the play "La foire d'empoigne" by Jean Anouilh.

1964-09-30 • 75 min

2. A Crack in the Ice

A soldier named Postnikov rescues a drowning man.

1964-10-28 • 75 min

3. In Camera

Three people find themselves sharing a room with no way out. As they talk, the nature of the room and how they came to be there is gradually revealed.

1964-11-04 • 85 min

4. Pale Horse, Pale Rider

A young woman's dreams of death but The Pale Rider fills her dreams along with her lover.

1964-11-11 • 85 min

5. The Big Breaker

A lodger, recuperating from a heart attack, sets his sights on his landlady.

1964-11-18 • 90 min

6. Mr. Douglas

Coronation Day, 1761: A merchant entertains a guest with an extraordinary secret.

1964-11-25 • 70 min

7. Malatesta

Sigismondo Malatesta is a condottiere, a mercenary for hire and patron of the arts.

1964-12-02 • 95 min

8. The July Plot

Dramatisation of the failed plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler in July 1944 by a conspiracy of high-ranking German Army officers.

1964-12-09 • 95 min

9. First Love

A study of a boy's passion for an older girl as he discovers the difference between infatuation and true love.

1964-12-16 • 85 min

10. Tap on the Shoulder

Archibald Cooper is a London gangster who is living the life of a country squire while running a criminal empire. He learns that he's getting a knighthood so invites some old associates to country house unaware they are planning a robbery.

1965-01-06 • 75 min

11. Sir Jocelyn, the Minister Would Like a Word...

A group of politicians and university dons argue over whether a new university should have a chapel or a state-of-the-art lecture hall.

1965-01-13 • 75 min

12. The Navigators

A tale of romance between two working class navvies.

1965-01-20 • 75 min

13. Fable

In a parallel totalitarian Great Britain, those in authority are Black people, and white people are their social underdogs — a reversal of the situation in then-contemporary apartheid South Africa.

1965-01-27 • 75 min

14. Dan, Dan the Charity Man

Dan Sankey, the charity knocker, has become a national celebrity but who is the man behind the image?

1965-02-03 • 75 min

15. Ashes to Ashes

Barbara is an assertive, clever, liberated woman, her own boss. Who'd think she could be swept off her feet by a handsome stranger for whom she'd give up her career, London, everything? Especially as her new husband maybe wants to kill her.

1965-02-10 • 75 min

16. Wear a Very Big Hat

A young couple celebrate their wedding anniversary with a night on the town.

1965-02-17 • 75 min

17. The Confidence Course

A trio of swindlers advertise a self-assertiveness seminar, lure a dozen victims to a hotel and attempt to persuade them to enroll in their course. However, a man claiming to be 18th century critic-essayist William Hazlitt attacks the consumerist values outlined by the motivational speaker.

1965-02-24 • 61 min

18. Campaign for One

Astronaut Osborne is stuck in a malfunctioning capsule. As he goes round and round the Earth, he starts telling jokes and secrets. When the time comes to bring him down to Earth, he can't face it as he feels like a sexual failure.

1965-03-03 • 75 min

19. Horror of Darkness

Peter and Cathy are initially delighted to see their charismatic, subtly domineering friend Robin. But he outstays his welcome, and that's to say the least of it.

1965-03-10 • 70 min

20. A Little Temptation

1965-03-17 • 75 min

21. Moving On

1965-03-24 • 75 min

22. Cat's Cradle

1965-03-31 • 75 min

23. Three Clear Sundays

1965-04-07 • 75 min

24. The Interior Decorator

1965-04-14 • 75 min

25. Auto-Stop

1965-04-21 • 75 min

26. The Good Shoe Maker and the Poor Fish Peddler

1965-04-28 • 75 min

27. Cemented with Love

1965-05-05 • 75 min

28. A Knight in Tarnished Armour

1965-05-12 • 75 min

29. For the West

1965-05-26 • 75 min

30. And Did Those Feet?

1965-06-02 • 75 min

31. The Man Without Papers

1965-06-09 • 75 min

32. The Pistol

1965-06-16 • 75 min

33. Women in Crisis: With Love and Tears

1965-06-23 • 75 min

34. The Seven O'Clock Crunch

1965-06-30 • 75 min