1965-10-07 3.429/10
Overview
An anthology of short plays shown on BBC Television between 1965 and 1973, used in part at least as a training ground for new writers, on account of its short length, and which therefore attracted many writers who later became well known.
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Seasons List
Season 1
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1. Parson's Pleasure
2. Give the Clown His Supper
3. Portrait of a Madonna
4. Pay as You Go
5. Monica
6. Love in Triplicate
7. Application Form
8. The Late Arrival of the Incoming Aircraft
9. Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat
10. Mr. Ponge
11. That's Not My Name
12. Family Christmas
13. The Passenger
14. The Flipside
15. The Enchanted Night
16. Four-Way Incident
17. Brothers
18. Janni! Oh Janni!
19. The Sugar Cubes
20. Case Suspended
21. Ships of the Line
22. Keep on Running
23. Not for Just an Hour
24. 'Twas on a Sunday
25. Magnolia Summer
26. A Girl's Best Friend
27. Emergency Ward 9
28. A Letter from the Country
29. The Caramel Crisis
30. Don't Go Down to the Bingo Mother, Father's Coming to Tea
31. The House Mouse
32. The Hard Word
33. Ella
34. The Window
35. Friday Night's the Best Night
36. A Good Reason for Getting Married
37. The Queen Street Girls
38. They Put You Where You Are
Season 2
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1. The Other Fella
2. The Devil and All His Mischief
3. The Spoken Word
4. The Sounds of War
5. The Excavation
6. Play to Win
7. Confession
8. Wife in a Blonde Wig
9. O-Gosh!
10. First Catch Your Hare...
11. Brainscrew
12. The Towers of Manhattan
13. Taste
14. R.S.V.P.
15. The Suede Jacket
16. Oldenberg
17. Later a Man Was Questioned
18. Teeth
19. Turn Off If You Know the Ending
20. An Absolute Treasure
21. Go Tell It on Table Mountain
22. Taffy Came to My House
23. Who Were You With Last Night?
24. Two and Two Make Twenty Two
25. Wanted
26. The Gun
27. Failpass
28. Boa Constrictor
29. The Isle is Full of Noises
30. Silver Wedding
31. The Sufferings of Peter Obiznov
32. Haven't You People Got Homes?
33. That Woman
34. The Other Side
35. The Wake
36. Child Marlene
37. Another Moon Called Earth
Season 3
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1. Leave Me Alone
2. The Timekeepers
3. You Meet All Sorts
4. The Tape Recorder
5. The Top Bunk
6. Have It On The House
7. Notice! Meeting In Progress
8. A Time of Wolves and Tigers
9. The Keys on the Streets
10. Come Death
11. The Metal Martyr
12. A Private Place
13. The News-Benders
14. Diary of an Encounter
15. Lovely In Black
16. Happiness Is E Shaped
17. Child's Play
18. Snakes and Reptiles
19. The Unquiet Man
20. The Interview
21. Eveline
22. A Personal Affair
23. No Trams To Ethiopia
24. Father's Day
25. Pleasant Dreams, Fernando
26. The Sinner
27. It's On You, John
28. Standing By For Santa Claus
29. Empty Bottles
30. Thank God for U.D.I.!
31. Still Death
32. Walk In The Dark
33. The Boy's Room
34. Number 30, Approximately
35. A Question of Honour
Season 4
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1. Baby
2. A Matter of Principle
3. The Flag
4. The Chequers Manoeuvre
5. Something To Hide: The First Floor
6. Something To Hide: The Studio
7. Something To Hide: The Caretaker's Flat
8. Of Public Concern
9. Cause of Death
10. The Last Victim
11. Loving Israel
12. The Bishop and the Actress
13. Before Breakfast
14. Cross Examine
15. Swallowing the Anchor
16. Game, Set and Match
17. Where Have They Gone, All The Little Children
18. Absolute Aggers and Torters
19. These Men Are Dangerous: Mussolini
20. These Men Are Dangerous: Hitler
21. These Men Are Dangerous: Stalin
22. Stake Money
23. First Confession
24. The Boat To Addis Ababa
25. A Hot Day
26. Roses, Roses, All The Way
27. The Victims: A Degree of Stress
28. The Victims: Frontier
29. The Victims: Progressive Blues
30. Invasion
31. A Nice Cool Pad in the Sky
32. Anything You Say
33. Conversation at Night
34. Roly Poly
35. ...And Was Invited to Form a Government
36. A Borderline Case
Season 5
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1. Remote Control
2. Gangster
3. Trial
4. A Formula for Treason
5. Someone's Knocking at Me Door
6. Trespassers
7. Aggers and Torters: Back to Nature
8. Aggers and Torters: Psy-Fi
9. Aggers and Torters: Hickory Dickory
10. Lecture to an Academy
11. The Switch
12. The Discharge of Trooper Lusby
13. Laffin' Gas
14. The Chief Whip Sends His Compliments
15. Reparation
16. The Scarecrows
17. Laying It Off For Spangle
18. Home Is Where You Hang Your Hat
19. What a Pity You Can't Stay Longer
20. Out of Sight, Out of Mind
21. Meanwhile Back at the Office
22. All My Own Army
23. Whispers
24. Revolutions: Cromwell
25. Revolutions: Lenin
26. Revolutions: Fidel Castro
27. Is That Your Body, Boy?
28. The Tidewatchers
29. Twenty-Six Efforts at Pornography
30. Lilly: Part 1
31. Lilly: Part 2
32. Ben
33. An Uncertain Sound
34. Hope
35. Good Times
36. Tropical Wednesdays
Season 6
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1. The Raid
2. The Year of the Crow
3. Did Your Nanny Come from Bergen?
4. Tribunal
5. Helen
6. The Warmonger
7. The Editor Regrets
8. Waugh on Crime: In Which Inspector Waugh Settles an Account
9. Waugh on Crime: In Which Inspector Waugh Meets a Man Going to St. Ives
10. Waugh on Crime: In Which Inspector Waugh Encounters the English Class System
11. Waugh on Crime: In Which Inspector Waugh Observes the Truth of an Old Music Hall Song
12. Waugh on Crime: In Which Inspector Waugh Plays Cops and Robbers
13. Waugh on Crime: In Which Inspector Waugh Knows the Criminal but not the Crime
14. But Now They Are Fled
15. Faith
16. Terrible Jim Fitch
17. The Bequest
18. Me MacKenna
19. The Proposal
20. Asquith in Orbit
21. Happy Days Are Here Again
22. The Railway Man's New Clothes
23. No Charge for the Extra Service
24. A Distinct Chill
25. The Waiting Room
26. Listen to the Drums
27. Death's Head
28. Jilly
29. Something for the Children
30. The Room They Left
31. Seven Days in the Life of Andrew Pelham: Crisis
32. Seven Days in the Life of Andrew Pelham: Suspect
33. Seven Days in the Life of Andrew Pelham: Inquiry
34. Seven Days in the Life of Andrew Pelham: Retreat
35. Seven Days in the Life of Andrew Pelham: Deadlock
36. Seven Days in the Life of Andrew Pelham: Breakthrough
37. Seven Days in the Life of Andrew Pelham: Decision
Season 7
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1. Walt, King of the Dumper
2. Soldier Ants
3. Gun Play
4. Combing Down His Yellow Hair
5. The Moonlighters
6. Getting In
7. Psychological Warfare
8. A Settled Sort of Life
9. The Gardeners of My Youth
10. Blues in the Morning
11. Jenkins
12. Allotment
13. Farewell Performance
14. Footprints
15. A Wen
16. Not Counting the Savages
17. Uncle Rollo
18. They Don't All Open Men's Boutiques
19. The Penthouse Apartment
20. An Affair of Honour
21. An Arrow for Little Audrey
22. That Quiet Earth
23. Said the Preacher
24. That Time of Life
25. Under the Age
26. Bypass
27. And For My Next Trick
28. The Sit In
29. Mill Hill
30. King's Cross Lunch Hour
31. Swiss Cottage
32. Knightsbridge
33. Bermondsey
Season 8
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1. Hands
2. Lushly
3. Too Far
4. Thrills Galore
5. The Argument
6. The Seventh Juror
7. I Spy a Stranger
8. The Judge's Wife
9. Scarborough
10. Tonight We Meet Arthur Pendlebury
11. Ronnie's So Long at the Fair
12. Ten Torrey Canyons
13. I Wouldn't Tell on You, Miss
14. You're Free
15. Dialogue
16. Krapp's Last Tape
17. The Chauffeur and the Lady
18. You've Been a Long Time, Alfred
19. The Japanese Student
20. The Punchy and the Fairy
21. Playthings
22. Is Nellie Dead?
23. A Chance Encounter
24. You and Me and Him
25. The Great Acrobile
26. Atrocity
27. Beginning To End
28. Swamp Music
29. Croust
30. The Baby's Name Being Kitchener
31. Kamikaze in a Coffee Bath
32. About a Bout
33. Shakespeare Country