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- In which Lucie Manette's life is changed by meeting the occupant of a garret in Paris.
- Opening episode of a dramatisation of A Tale of Two Cities. Mr Lorry is on his way by the night-coach to catch the ferry to France when he's overtaken by Jerry Cruncher, the bank messenger, with the enigmatic message 'Recalled to Life'. He goes to the tavern run by the Defarges where he collects Dr Manette, who has been imprisoned without trial for several years to take him to his daughter Lucy who hasn't seen him since infancy and now lives in England.
- One of the greatest achievements of television -broadcast from 1964 in 26 episodes. Use of extensive archive footage and sound effects, linked with contemporary classic music of that area. Concentrated by the commentaries by Michael Redgrave, and some of the finest male actors of the twentieth century. Still manages to be breathtaking despite the lack of special effects or modern gimmicks.
- Sgt Ackland's last day and while they're preparing a party at the station, she and her ex are being held hostage by the son of the owner of a haulage company who has shot his father. June learns that the case was complicated by Jim's intention of getting her back. The gunman has been promised a share of the robbery.