Season Two

Episodes

1. 1

   1. The Chopping Block

   23 Oct 1960

2. 2

   2. Looking for Garrow

   30 Oct 1960

3. 3

   3. A Subject of Scandal and Concern

   6 Nov 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.

4. 4

   4. The Wind and the Sun

   13 Nov 1960

5. 5

   5. The Squeeze

   20 Nov 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.

6. 6

   6. The Nightwalkers

   27 Nov 1960

7. 7

   7. The Assassins

   4 Dec 1960

   Ruthless assassins take over an ordinary suburban home in order to commit a political murder - but where do they come from?

8. 8

   8. The Song of a March Hare

   11 Dec 1960

9. 9

   9. A Time to Fight

   18 Dec 1960

10. 10

    10. Tuppence in the Gods

    25 Dec 1960

11. 11

    11. Nearer to Heaven

    1 Jan 1961

12. 12

    12. Venus Brown

    8 Jan 1961

    Jack Brown is devoted to his much younger wife, Venus; but she's not the goddess he thinks she is.

13. 13

    13. A Woman Comes Home

    15 Jan 1961

    Will home be the sanctuary Bobbie James needs it to be?

14. 14

    14. Off Centre

    22 Jan 1961

    Joe Hunter must face up to the reality of his existence, and stop having false ideas about himself and his own importance.

15. 15

    15. A Kind of Strength

    29 Jan 1961

16. 16

    16. The Final Result

    5 Feb 1961

17. 17

    17. The Intervener

    12 Feb 1961

18. 18

    18. An Inspector Calls

    19 Feb 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.

19. 19

    19. The Mather Story

    26 Feb 1961

20. 20

    20. A Reason for Staying

    5 Mar 1961

    An Eastern European general who has fled his native country dreams of returning home - and of gaining military power there.

21. 21

    21. Old Mick Mack

    12 Mar 1961

22. 22

    22. The Wrong Side of the Park

    19 Mar 1961

23. 23

    23. Fury in Petticoats

    26 Mar 1961

24. 24

    24. Brian Rix Presents #11: A Fair Cop

    2 Apr 1961

25. 25

    25. Charley's Aunt

    16 Apr 1961

    Lord Fancourt Babberley is required, much against his will, to impersonate the wealthy aunt of his friend Charley.

26. 26

    26. Scene of the Accident

    30 Apr 1961

27. 27

    27. Marriage Lines

    14 May 1961

28. 28

    28. Brian Rix Presents #12: Wolf's Clothing

    21 May 1961

29. 29

    29. Home at Seven

    4 Jun 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.

30. 30

    30. A Call on Kuprin: Part 1

    18 Jun 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?

31. 31

    31. A Call on Kuprin: Part 2

    25 Jun 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.

32. 32

    32. That Lady

    9 Jul 1961

    A one-eyed adventuress at the court of Philip II of Spain becomes embroiled in scandal and intrigue.

33. 33

    33. Listen James

    23 Jul 1961

34. 34

    34. Brian Rix Presents #13: Basinful of the Briny

    6 Aug 1961

35. 35

    35. The Winslow Boy

    20 Aug 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.

36. 36

    36. Wet Fish

    3 Sept 1961

37. 37

    37. The Hasty Heart

    17 Sept 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.