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- 1960–19639.7 (105)TV EpisodeTodays theme: Twentieth Century Theatre: The Elder Statesman.
- Not to be confused with the 1967 TV series of the same name (also starring Patrick McGoohan), this adaptation of Bridget Boland's 1954 stage play depicts the conflict between a Cardinal (allegedly inspired by real-life Hungarian Cardinal Mindszenty) in an unnamed totalitarian state and the Interrogator who tries to force him into a public abjure of his religious convictions.
- 1960–19631h 5m7.6 (48)TV EpisodeA 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.
- A man mysteriously locks himself in a room in a boarding house leaving only a note saying he has decided to "retire from the world". His worried sister and the other boarders then try to discover why.
- 1960–19636.1 (23)TV EpisodeTodays theme: Twentieth Century Theatre: Colombe.
- An Eastern European general who has fled his native country dreams of returning home - and of gaining military power there.
- A young fellow of a Cambridge college is accused of fraud and dismissed. Based on the eighth novel in C.P. Snow's "Strangers and Brothers" series.
- Elizabeth Barrett's tyrannical father has forbidden any of his family to marry. Nevertheless, Elizabeth falls in love with the poet Robert Browning.
- Three girls sharing living accommodation invite their boyfriends for tea on Sunday. One of the young men arrives carrying an ax over his shoulder.
- Heavy-drinking Marxist writer Morgan Delt must hold on to his sanity whilst trying to resolve his marital problems.
- A self-made Northerner of limited sophistication finds London life a little hectic.
- Dr. Gage, involved in cryogenics, volunteers to be the first frozen man after murdering his wife. Dr. Mortimer discovers who killed his wife and ponders whether he should play judge and jury by switching Dr. Gage's freezing machine off?
- Pressure mounts on a group of scientists as they urgently prepare to test a new top secret weapon.
- An eating contest is staged for a new TV show - with fatal results.
- Maggie Wylie isn't very beautiful. She isn't even very young any more. But fortunately there is more to Maggie than meets the eye.
- 1960–1963TV Episode
- Edwin Carrington has remarried. His staid English family is surprised by his new wife.
- Will home be the sanctuary Bobbie James needs it to be?
- Lord Fancourt Babberley is required, much against his will, to impersonate the wealthy aunt of his friend Charley.
- Joe Hunter must face up to the reality of his existence, and stop having false ideas about himself and his own importance.
- Inspector Barlach is ruthless in pursuit of an arrest, and doesn't seem to care if anyone else gets hurt along the way.
- 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.
- A London businessman concocts an intricate plan to murder his unfaithful wife for her money.
- A publisher insinuates himself into the mouldering mansion of the centenarian lover of a renowned but long-dead poet in order to find his lost love letter.
- The ghost of Sir Simon De Canterville has terrified visitors to his family home for centuries - but when a family of Americans rent the place, he's the one who's terrified.
- Alastair Moncrieff designs a banknote counter and he takes it to Olagem Ltd. Director John Lock realises that the counter can make a fortune, and determines that the fortune shall go to Olagem.
- The travails of an ordinary London working-class family over many years.
- 1960–1963TV Episode
- Russia's Space Race success is mainly due to a brilliant rocket scientist, Kuprin. But a journalist and a politician in London remember him as a fervent Anglophile who had to leave Britain under duress. Can he be persuaded to return?
- Smith and Laye-Parker meet Kuprin and find he is less anxious to leave Russia than they supposed.
- Philip is much older than his wife, who is, he discovers, having an affair with his friend George. When he introduces George to a young woman, he has an ulterior motive.
- 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.
- 1960–1963TV Episode
- Kindly, mild mannered clerk Arthur Bruce dreams of traveling to distant lands and reads books about faraway places.
- 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.
- Hardcastle, a man of substance, looks forward to acquainting his daughter with his old pal's son with a view to marriage. But thanks to playboy Lumpkin, he's mistaken by his prospective son-in-law Marlow for an innkeeper, his daughter for the local barmaid. The good news is, while Marlow can barely speak to a woman of quality he's a charmer with those of a different stamp. And so, as Hardcastle's indignation intensifies, Miss Hardcastle's appreciation for her misguided suitor soars. Misdemeanours multiply, love blossoms, mayhem ensues. One of the great, generous-hearted and ingenious comedies of the English language, Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer offers a celebration of chaos, courtship and the dysfunctional family.
- A one-eyed adventuress at the court of Philip II of Spain becomes embroiled in scandal and intrigue.
- Ruthless assassins take over an ordinary suburban home in order to commit a political murder - but where do they come from?
- Ed Horner has had to make his own way in the world, without any advantages; so he can't understand why his clever son, newly graduated, is so apathetic about his future.
- Through a clerical error, a boys' school and a girls' school are billeted on the same premises.
- 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 Cpl. MacLachlan can't go home is because the wound he sustained destroyed one of his kidneys and the other one is defective and will shut down in three to four weeks. He asks her to put Lachlan up with some other soldiers she has waiting to go home so that he can spend his last days with friends. But Cpl. MacLachlan wants nothing to do with friends and prefers his own privacy to "idle chat". He's a hard nut to crack and their work is cut out for them to make him as comfortable as possible.
- In pre-WW1 England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial.
- Jack Brown is devoted to his much younger wife, Venus; but she's not the goddess he thinks she is.
- With her mother in hospital and her father mysteriously away, Elisabeth is sent to an unknown uncle and aunt in Belfast. The play deals with the conflict aroused in the child's conscience when she is placed in unfamiliar surroundings.
- Don and Roz, a very trendy couple, are expecting a Hollywood film actress as their dinner guest, but find they also have to look after Don's very eccentric and contrary father.
- Mild-mannered and unassuming, Gerald Swinney has had enough of his nagging, domineering wife. So he resolves, not to kill her, but simply to "get rid" of her.
- Two lonely, unbeautiful people are brought together by a dating agency, and, against all odds, find love.
- The definition of a trivial subspace and of a nontrivial subspace are provided.
- The story of the Tolpuddle Martyrs, nineteenth-century labourers who formed a union and were transported to Australia.
- Karen Holt's bad driving leads to the death of a young girl. Her husband hides the body but Insp. Davies asks about a missing girl, Judy Grant who was also Howard's mistress. The pair decide to keep it secret but then get a blackmail note.
- Douglas has fallen in love with an American girl and is perturbed to find, at the same time, that he really must get a job at last.
- An eccentric teacher dreams of finding fame as a novelist; but everything in his life seems to conspire against him.
- A ruthless business tycoon proposes a merger - between God and Mammon.
- An embittered man is released from prison, anxious for revenge on those who really perpetrated the crime for which he was convicted.
- When her throne is threatened by a "pretender" based in Venice, Catherine the Great sends Count Orloff to deal with the problem.
- About the foolish and lost Gabriel who lives entirely in the shadow of his brother, the brave soldier Mart who died in the war and is continuously immortalized by the dominant mother.
- 1960–1963TV Episode
- Eccentric goings-on in a far-flung tropical colony.
- A weakling sheriff is unable to prevent a lynching. Can he redeem himself by preventing a second one?
- Lambert, a government official, is required to leak a secret document - which may have serious consequences.
- General Harras, a hero of the First World War, finds himself increasingly at odds with the new Germany of Adolf Hitler.
- 1960–19631h 30mTV Episode
- 1960–1963TV EpisodeA honeymoon couple quarrel and part, flirting with others until their reconciliation.
- The Randolphs gather for a family reunion.
- 1960–1963TV EpisodeThe comical misadventures of a group of medical students.
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- 1960–1963TV EpisodeDuring the depression in England, a young lady from Lancashire decides to be a rich bookmaker's mistress, just to help the rest of her family who are unemployed.
- 1960–1963TV EpisodeThe ordered life of John Tanner becomes confused when he meets ardent feminist Anne Whitefield.
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- 1960–1963TV Episode
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- 1960–1963TV Episode
- Nicky Lancaster finds that his domineering mother has become a drug addict.
- 1960–1963TV Episode
- 1960–1963TV EpisodeA teenager falls in love with the wife of one of his teachers.