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- An orphan who practices hypnosis faces off against a bank robber who wants her book on the art form.
- Dr. Henry Jekyll, a respectable Victorian scientist, concocts a drug which releases another side to his personality: a brutal, murderous alter-ego.
- In a mythical Japan, Ko-Ko, a cheap tailor, has been appointed Lord High Executioner and must find someone to execute before the arrival of the ruling Mikado. He lights upon Nanki-Poo, a strolling minstrel who loves the beautiful Yum-Yum. But Yum-Yum is also loved by Ko-Ko, and Nanki-Poo, seeing no hope for his love, considers suicide. Ko-Ko offers to solve both their problems by executing Nanki-Poo, and an agreement is reached whereby Ko-Ko will allow Nanki-Poo to marry Yum-Yum for one month, at the end of which Nanki-Poo will be executed, in time for the arrival of the Mikado. But what Ko-Ko doesn't know is that Nanki-Poo is the son of the Mikado and has run away to avoid a betrothal to an old harridan named Katisha. The arrival of the Mikado brings all the threads of the tale together.
- Television production of a Nativity play for children which sees Gabby (the angel Gabriel) and his fellow angels help Mary, Joseph and the Wiseman to follow their destiny.
- Satire on the life of the Bright Young Things of the British aristocracy in the 1920s, where Adam tries to marry Nina, but finds himself constantly thwarted in his attempts due to a lack of money.
- An 'interlude with music' about a struggling music hall act, presented by the BBC as part of Noël Coward's 70th birthday tribute.
- An English-language version of Wagner's opera.
- The search for the laws of creation written and presented by Nigel Calder. Researchers describe how the wonderful variety in nature all comes out of a single primeval Big Bang.
- Rock musical retelling of the legend of the Trojan Horse.
- The subject of mirrors fascinated MICHAEL AYRTON , the sculptor, artist and writer. Here we are introduced to some of his ideas on mirrors and reflections in painting, archaeology, history, myth, science and nature.
- The lifelong interaction in which humans make humans - shaping one another's behavior for good or ill. In this major report, leading scientists around the world offer surprising new insights into our everyday lives.
- A husband decides to impose a novel and outrageous arrangement on his wife.
- Loosely inspired from Gauguin's life, the story of Charles Strickland, a middle-aged stockbroker who abandons his middle-classed life, his family, his duties to start painting, what he has always wanted to do. He is from now on a awful human being, wholly devoted to his ideal: beauty.
- Weekend guests of the Bliss family finds their hosts distinctly eccentric.
- John Tanner is determined not to lose his independence - which comes under threat when he falls in love with an ardent feminist.
- The eternal triangle can change shape but always has three sides.
- A son recalls his eccentric father, who pursued an active career as a barrister despite being blind.
- The story of a disintegrating marriage told through family photos. This edition is missing from the BBC archives.
- An ultra-realistic procedural drama of a social worker's investigation into the case of a battered infant received critical acclaim.
- Lord Windermere appears to all - including to his young wife Margaret - as the perfect husband. But their happy marriage is placed at risk when Lord Windermere starts spending his afternoons with an adventuress who is working her way through London's high society, Mrs. Erlynne. Worse, Windermere gives her big sums of money. To crown it all he asks his wife to invite the detestable woman to her own birthday party. Upset and outraged, the puritan Lady Windermere decides to leave her husband and goes to Lord Robert Darlington, who has been courting her for some time. Unfortunately she leaves her fan - the one Robert offered her for her birthday - in Robert's house...