Episodes
The Chopping Block
October 23, 1960
Looking for Garrow
October 30, 1960
A Subject of Scandal and Concern
November 6, 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.
The Wind and the Sun
November 13, 1960
The Squeeze
November 20, 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.
The Nightwalkers
November 27, 1960
The Assassins
December 4, 1960
Ruthless assassins take over an ordinary suburban home in order to commit a political murder - but where do they come from?
The Song of a March Hare
December 11, 1960
A Time to Fight
December 18, 1960
Tuppence in the Gods
December 25, 1960
Nearer to Heaven
January 1, 1961
Venus Brown
January 8, 1961
Jack Brown is devoted to his much younger wife, Venus; but she's not the goddess he thinks she is.
A Woman Comes Home
January 15, 1961
Will home be the sanctuary Bobbie James needs it to be?
Off Centre
January 22, 1961
Joe Hunter must face up to the reality of his existence, and stop having false ideas about himself and his own importance.
A Kind of Strength
January 29, 1961
The Final Result
February 5, 1961
The Intervener
February 12, 1961
An Inspector Calls
February 19, 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.
The Mather Story
February 26, 1961
A Reason for Staying
March 5, 1961
An Eastern European general who has fled his native country dreams of returning home - and of gaining military power there.
Old Mick Mack
March 12, 1961
The Wrong Side of the Park
March 19, 1961
Fury in Petticoats
March 26, 1961
Brian Rix Presents #11: A Fair Cop
April 2, 1961
Charley's Aunt
April 16, 1961
Lord Fancourt Babberley is required, much against his will, to impersonate the wealthy aunt of his friend Charley.
Scene of the Accident
April 30, 1961
Marriage Lines
May 14, 1961
Brian Rix Presents #12: Wolf's Clothing
May 21, 1961
Home at Seven
June 4, 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.
A Call on Kuprin: Part 1
June 18, 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?
A Call on Kuprin: Part 2
June 25, 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.
That Lady
July 9, 1961
A one-eyed adventuress at the court of Philip II of Spain becomes embroiled in scandal and intrigue.
Listen James
July 23, 1961
Brian Rix Presents #13: Basinful of the Briny
August 6, 1961
The Winslow Boy
August 20, 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.
Wet Fish
September 3, 1961
The Hasty Heart
September 17, 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.
