A marriage can be lonely when the children have left home, as Nelson and Maud find out. Maud leaves in the middle of a unloving picnic, and Nelson follows - both sharing their stories with a series of strangers.
It's not easy being a striker with a strike-breaking policeman billeted in your home but Manuel Stocker and Herbert Griffith manage to make a go of it. Until events turn violent.
The parochial Lionel and Doris take their daughter on a holiday to Morocco, where they claim they'll make an effort to expand their horizons. But who is the mysterious house servant Ali, and how does he keep appearing and disappearing?
Two provincial newspaper reporters - one a young idealist starting out on his career, the other an embittered man who previously wrote for a failed national daily - swap views.
Johnson begins his life sentence for the murder of a policeman. It is not long before he will experience the harsh realities of the brutality and day to day drudgery of prison life. This edition is missing from the BBC archives.
A man celebrating his birthday comes to appreciate the difference between media fantasy and mundane reality. This edition is missing from the BBC archives.
Ellis is 50, bankrupt and showing signs of psychosis. He fantasises about killing his father, has dreams of the occult, and feels the only thing he can communicate with in life is a garden worm.