Season 1

1. S1.E1 ∙ The Man Upstairs

An anthology series of dramatisations of plays.

1958-01-04 • ? min

2. S1.E2 ∙ The Distaff Side

An upper middle-class family is ruled by the ancient and churlish matriarch. Her daughters' marriages are all in jeopardy, with affairs and communions with the dead. It's difficult to find any solitude or sanity in the family.

1958-01-11 • ? min

3. S1.E3 ∙ Heroes Don't Care

1958-01-18 • ? min

4. S1.E4 ∙ Britannia of Billingsgate

1958-01-25 • ? min

5. S1.E5 ∙ The Corn Is Green

A spinster schoolteacher arrives in a Welsh mining valley and discovers a boy genius in her class.

1958-02-01 • ? min

6. S1.E6 ∙ Design for Murder

1958-02-08 • ? min

7. S1.E7 ∙ My Flesh, My Blood

1958-02-15 • ? min

8. S1.E8 ∙ Ladies in Retirement

Ellen Creed struggles to hold down her job as housekeeper-companion to the retired actress Leonora Fiske whilst trying to protect her two disturbed sisters from the threat of incarceration.

1958-02-22 • ? min

9. S1.E9 ∙ A Likely Tale

A dying old man changes his will to leave everything to the new housemaid who has caught his eye, much to the alarm of his three grown up children and grandson.

1958-03-01 • ? min

10. S1.E10 ∙ And No Birds Sing

1958-03-08 • ? min

11. S1.E11 ∙ Carry On, Admiral

The action takes place in a bedroom in a Portsmouth hotel, the wardroom of H.M.S. Sherwood, and the living-room at Admiralty House.

1958-03-15 • ? min

12. S1.E12 ∙ French Without Tears

The love affairs of three young Englishmen at a language cramming school in the south of France. Diana, the sister of one of the boys, arrives in town to flirt with all of her brothers' schoolmates.

1958-03-22 • ? min

13. S1.E13 ∙ High Heaven

1958-03-29 • ? min

14. S1.E14 ∙ The Ware Case

A financier is accused of murder when his brother-in-law is found dead in his garden pond. After winning the court case he returns home to find that his lawyer has romantic inclinations towards his wife.

1958-04-05 • ? min

15. S1.E15 ∙ The Fourth Wall

The host of a dinner party is murdered.

1958-04-12 • ? min

16. S1.E16 ∙ Dr. Angelus

1958-04-19 • ? min

17. S1.E17 ∙ A Young Affair

1958-04-26 • ? min

18. S1.E18 ∙ The Dover Road

A wealthy man lives on the Dover Road, a traditional path of elopers. His practice of forcing such couples to see one another in the sober light of home life in his house leads to a personal involvement for him.

1958-09-13 • ? min

19. S1.E19 ∙ Day of Retirement

1958-09-20 • ? min

20. S1.E20 ∙ A Private Eye for Pennsylvania

1958-09-27 • ? min

21. S1.E21 ∙ Four for Solitaire

1958-10-25 • ? min

22. S1.E22 ∙ Trespass

1958-11-22 • ? min

23. S1.E23 ∙ The Duke in Darkness

A duke imprisoned for 15 years in a castle in France feigns blindness for five years to lull the suspicions of his captors in order to plan his escape.

1958-12-06 • ? min

24. S1.E24 ∙ The Magistrate

A widow weds a magistrate and makes her 19-year-old son act as a boy.

1958-12-20 • ? min

25. S1.E25 ∙ So Many Children

1958-12-27 • ? min

26. S1.E26 ∙ Trilby

in 19th-century Paris, a sinister hypnotist tries to turn a simple Irish girl into an opera star.

1959-01-17 • ? min

27. S1.E27 ∙ Murder on the Agenda

Eynon Evans plays the part of Inspector Probert George, who was tortured in a prisoner-of-war camp when his plans for escape were discovered, is dead after five years in a mental home. His five fellow prisoners had sworn that if George died they would kill the man who had betrayed him to the Germans. But which of them was to do the killing? And how?

1959-02-14 • ? min

28. S1.E28 ∙ Golden Rain

1959-02-28 • ? min

29. S1.E29 ∙ While the Sun Shines

1959-03-28 • ? min

30. S1.E30 ∙ The Cat and the Canary

At an old, dark house, on a dark and stormy night, an ill-assorted group of people meet for the reading of a millionaire's will. But there's a madman on the loose.

1959-05-09 • ? min

31. S1.E31 ∙ The Larford Lad

The story of a young boxer's rise to fame.

1959-06-20 • ? min

32. S1.E32 ∙ Black Chiffon

A woman who has an absolutely untarnished reputation unaccountably steals a black-chiffon nightgown days before her son's wedding.

1959-07-04 • ? min

33. S1.E33 ∙ My Young Brother

1959-07-18 • ? min

34. S1.E34 ∙ Love and Miss Figgis

1959-08-01 • ? min

35. S1.E35 ∙ Unfinished Journey

1959-08-08 • ? min

36. S1.E36 ∙ The Cathedral

1959-08-15 • ? min

37. S1.E37 ∙ Last Day in Dreamland

1959-08-29 • ? min

38. S1.E38 ∙ It Isn't Enough

1959-09-26 • ? min

39. S1.E39 ∙ Haul for the Shore

1959-10-24 • ? min

40. S1.E40 ∙ Bed and Breakfast

1959-11-21 • ? min

41. S1.E41 ∙ The Farmer's Wife

After his daughter weds, a middle-aged widower with a profitable farm decides to remarry but finds choosing a suitable mate a problematic process.

1959-12-05 • ? min

42. S1.E42 ∙ Through a Glass Darkly

1959-12-19 • ? min

43. S1.E43 ∙ Conflict at Kalanadi

1960-01-16 • ? min

44. S1.E44 ∙ The Difficult Age

1960-01-30 • ? min

45. S1.E45 ∙ Going Like a Fox

1960-02-13 • ? min

46. S1.E46 ∙ The Return of Peggy Atherton

1960-02-27 • ? min

47. S1.E47 ∙ Home and the Heart

1960-03-12 • ? min

48. S1.E48 ∙ A Matter of Age

1960-03-26 • ? min

49. S1.E49 ∙ Devonshire Cream

1960-04-09 • ? min

50. S1.E50 ∙ The Country Boy

1960-04-23 • ? min

51. S1.E51 ∙ The Man Who Came to Dinner

Sheridan Whiteside, famous as an author, broadcaster and expert on just about everything, is invited to dinner by a pompous small-town businessman - and stays rather longer than anyone anticipated.

1960-05-07 • ? min

52. S1.E52 ∙ Marriage Settlement

1960-05-21 • ? min

53. S1.E53 ∙ The Guinea Pig

A working-class boy gets a scholarship to a public school.

1960-06-04 • ? min

54. S1.E54 ∙ The Breadwinner

1960-06-18 • ? min

55. S1.E55 ∙ On the Edge

1960-07-16 • ? min

56. S1.E56 ∙ Dream Girl

A young lady is filled with daydreams until she meets her reality man.

1960-08-13 • ? min

57. S1.E57 ∙ The Shop at Sly Corner

Descius Heiss is a French expatriate, and former Devil's Island prisoner, with two passions; driving shrewd bargains in antiques at his Sly Corner Shop, and the care of his motherless, violin-playing daughter, Margaret. But, his comfortable wealth comes more from being a fence for stolen goods than it does buying-and-selling antiques. His secret is discovered by his shop assistant Archie Fellowes, a nasty, sniveling young rat, and he begins blackmailing Heiss. Heiss employs the usual solution to blackmailers, and the film ends in a London concert-hall where Margaret is playing the Mendelssohm Violin Concerto.

1960-08-27 • ? min

58. S1.E58 ∙ Family Occasion

What is Margaret hiding from the rest of the family when they arrive for their father's funeral?

1960-10-08 • ? min

59. S1.E59 ∙ The Bachelor Brothers

1960-10-22 • ? min

60. S1.E60 ∙ Your Obedient Servant

1960-11-19 • ? min

61. S1.E61 ∙ The Druid Circle

An embittered professor comes near to wrecking the lives of a young man and young woman whose love for each other has been accidentally revealed to him through a letter written by the boy to the girl.

1960-12-03 • ? min

62. S1.E62 ∙ The Colonel

1960-12-17 • ? min

63. S1.E63 ∙ A Run for the Money

1960-12-31 • ? min

64. S1.E64 ∙ A Sense of Guilt

1961-01-14 • ? min

65. S1.E65 ∙ The Four Poster

The up-and-down lives of a married couple over decades, depicted as a series of bedroom scenes.

1961-01-28 • ? min

66. S1.E66 ∙ The House with the Green Shutters

1961-02-11 • ? min

67. S1.E67 ∙ A Perfect Stranger

1961-02-25 • ? min

68. S1.E68 ∙ Seagulls Over Sorrento

A Navy lieutenant is borrowed by the British to supervise torpedo experiments after one of their scientists is killed.

1961-03-04 • ? min