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The Chopping Block

The Chopping Block

Episode number: 1
Looking for Garrow

Looking for Garrow

Episode number: 2
A Subject of Scandal and Concern

A Subject of Scandal and Concern

Episode number: 3

Overview: 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

The Wind and the Sun

Episode number: 4
The Squeeze

The Squeeze

Episode number: 5

Overview: 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

The Nightwalkers

Episode number: 6
The Assassins

The Assassins

Episode number: 7

Overview: 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

The Song of a March Hare

Episode number: 8
A Time to Fight

A Time to Fight

Episode number: 9
Tuppence in the Gods

Tuppence in the Gods

Episode number: 10
Nearer to Heaven

Nearer to Heaven

Episode number: 11
Venus Brown

Venus Brown

Episode number: 12

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

A Woman Comes Home

A Woman Comes Home

Episode number: 13

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

Off Centre

Off Centre

Episode number: 14

Overview: 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

A Kind of Strength

Episode number: 15
The Final Result

The Final Result

Episode number: 16
The Intervener

The Intervener

Episode number: 17
An Inspector Calls

An Inspector Calls

Episode number: 18

Overview: 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

The Mather Story

Episode number: 19
A Reason for Staying

A Reason for Staying

Episode number: 20

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

Old Mick Mack

Old Mick Mack

Episode number: 21
The Wrong Side of the Park

The Wrong Side of the Park

Episode number: 22
Fury in Petticoats

Fury in Petticoats

Episode number: 23
Brian Rix Presents #11: A Fair Cop

Brian Rix Presents #11: A Fair Cop

Episode number: 24
Charley's Aunt

Charley's Aunt

Episode number: 25

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

Scene of the Accident

Scene of the Accident

Episode number: 26
Marriage Lines

Marriage Lines

Episode number: 27
Brian Rix Presents #12: Wolf's Clothing

Brian Rix Presents #12: Wolf's Clothing

Episode number: 28
Home at Seven

Home at Seven

Episode number: 29

Overview: 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

A Call on Kuprin: Part 1

Episode number: 30

Overview: 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

A Call on Kuprin: Part 2

Episode number: 31

Overview: 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

That Lady

Episode number: 32

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

Listen James

Listen James

Episode number: 33
Brian Rix Presents #13: Basinful of the Briny

Brian Rix Presents #13: Basinful of the Briny

Episode number: 34
The Winslow Boy

The Winslow Boy

Episode number: 35

Overview: 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

Wet Fish

Episode number: 36
The Hasty Heart

The Hasty Heart

Episode number: 37

Overview: 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.