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- Follows the first manned space flight from Australia. In its return to Earth, from the crew of 3, only Victor Carroon, is still aboard. Examinations reveal that something attacked the crew as they were on course back to Earth.
- Ten people are invited to a summer party on an island oft the Devon coast. They are an extremely varied group from a blustering major to a frigid spinster. The only thing they have in common is that they were each involved in a case of unexpected death. They soon find something very odd about their invitations, and then they start to die, one by one. But who is the murderer and where is he hiding.
- In 1890s London, two friends use the same pseudonym ("Ernest") for their on-the-sly activities. Hilarity ensues.
- Gardening programme.
- The first ever programme broadcast when regular British television broadcasts commenced (excluding welcome broadcast).
- Film ''Scenes from Twelfth Night and Macbeth'' based on the novel by William Shakespeare.
- Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.
- Exiled Prospero lives on a desolate island with his daughter, Miranda. When Prospero's usurping brother sails by the island, Prospero conjures a storm that wrecks the ship and changes all of their lives.
- Two teenagers fall in love, but their feuding families and fate itself cause the relationship to end in tragedy.
- Televised Cabaret featuring different guests from music, comedy and novelty acts every week.
- The ghost of a poor warehouse clerk who died from the cold persuades a tailor to steal a coat.
- A programme looking back at the previous forty years of BBC TV. Using clips to illustrate how the BBC developed the medium, the programme also heralded a season of nightly vintage repeats shown on BBC 2.
- A live, early television version of the play
- King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the old man in return for favor, he banishes her and turns for support to his remaining daughters. But Goneril and Regan have no love for him and instead plot to take all his power from him. In a parallel, Lear's loyal courtier Gloucester favors his illegitimate son Edmund after being told lies about his faithful son Edgar. Madness and tragedy befall both ill-starred fathers.
- Song-and-dance variety show.
- In this film, specially taken for the BBC, viewers are given an idea of the growth of the television installation at Alexandra Palace and an insight into production routine. There will be many shots behind the scenes. One sequence, for instance, will show Adele Dixon as she appears to viewers in the Variety at 3.30 this afternoon, and will then reveal the technical staff and equipment in the studio that made this transmission possible.
- Televised Ballet based on Blake's vision of the Book of Job.
- A rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes to tell him how he's in love with Portia. Portia's father has died and left a very strange will: only the man that picks the correct casket out of three (silver, gold, and lead) can marry her. Bassanio, unfortunately, is strapped for cash with which to go wooing, and Antonio wants to help, so Antonio borrows the money from Shylock, the money-lender. But Shylock has been nursing a grudge against Antonio's insults, and makes unusual terms to the loan. And when Antonio's business fails, those terms threaten his life, and it's up to Bassanio and Portia to save him.
- The first Television Revue
- Two teenagers fall in love, but their feuding families and fate itself cause the relationship to end in tragedy.
- An aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters and rejects his one loving, but honest one.
- An aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters and rejects his one loving, but honest one.
- Exiled Prospero lives on a desolate island with his daughter, Miranda. When Prospero's usurping brother sails by the island, Prospero conjures a storm that wrecks the ship and changes all of their lives.
- Hamlet suspects his uncle has murdered his father to claim the throne of Denmark and the hand of Hamlet's mother, but the prince cannot decide whether or not he should take vengeance.
- An aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters and rejects his one loving, but honest one.
- Hamlet suspects his uncle has murdered his father to claim the throne of Denmark and the hand of Hamlet's mother, but the prince cannot decide whether or not he should take vengeance.
- Two teenagers fall in love, but their feuding families and fate itself cause the relationship to end in tragedy.
- In a totalitarian future society, Winston Smith, whose daily work is re-writing history, tries to rebel by falling in love.
- A British experimental rocket orbits the Earth. After being out of contact for 57 hours, the capsule crashes back to Earth in Wimbledon, London. When the capsule is opened, only one member of the three-man crew emerges, Victor Carroon.
- Victor Carroon is subjected to various tests which indicate that he has taken on the identities of the other two men. Quatermass and Paterson find a gelatinous substance spread around the capsule's interior.