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Season Two

Season Two

October 23, 1960·37 épisodes
Épisodes · 37
E1

The Chopping Block

Oct 23, 1960
E2

Looking for Garrow

Oct 30, 1960
E3

A Subject of Scandal and Concern

A 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.

Nov 6, 1960
E4

The Wind and the Sun

Nov 13, 1960
E5

The Squeeze

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.

Nov 20, 1960
E6

The Nightwalkers

Nov 27, 1960
E7

The Assassins

Ruthless assassins take over an ordinary suburban home in order to commit a political murder - but where do they come from?

Dec 4, 1960
E8

The Song of a March Hare

Dec 11, 1960
E9

A Time to Fight

Dec 18, 1960
E10

Tuppence in the Gods

Dec 25, 1960
E11

Nearer to Heaven

Jan 1, 1961
E12

Venus Brown

Jack Brown is devoted to his much younger wife, Venus; but she's not the goddess he thinks she is.

Jan 8, 1961
E13

A Woman Comes Home

Will home be the sanctuary Bobbie James needs it to be?

Jan 15, 1961
E14

Off Centre

Joe Hunter must face up to the reality of his existence, and stop having false ideas about himself and his own importance.

Jan 22, 1961
E15

A Kind of Strength

Jan 29, 1961
E16

The Final Result

Feb 5, 1961
E17

The Intervener

Feb 12, 1961
E18

An Inspector Calls

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.

Feb 19, 1961
E19

The Mather Story

Feb 26, 1961
E20

A Reason for Staying

An Eastern European general who has fled his native country dreams of returning home - and of gaining military power there.

Mar 5, 1961
E21

Old Mick Mack

Mar 12, 1961
E22

The Wrong Side of the Park

Mar 19, 1961
E23

Fury in Petticoats

Mar 26, 1961
E24

Brian Rix Presents #11: A Fair Cop

Apr 2, 1961
E25

Charley's Aunt

Lord Fancourt Babberley is required, much against his will, to impersonate the wealthy aunt of his friend Charley.

Apr 16, 1961
E26

Scene of the Accident

Apr 30, 1961
E27

Marriage Lines

May 14, 1961
E28

Brian Rix Presents #12: Wolf's Clothing

May 21, 1961
E29

Home at Seven

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.

Jun 4, 1961
E30

A Call on Kuprin: Part 1

After the manned satellite, the armed satellite. Kuprin, the Soviet scientist, is working on a warhead for the Chelovyek. But Laye-Parker M.P. and Smith, a Lobby Correspondent at the House of Commons, remember him at Cambridge before the war as an Anglophile married to an English woman. Can they, by a personal approach, persuade him to return to this country?

Jun 18, 1961
E31

A Call on Kuprin: Part 2

Laye-Parker M.P. and Smith, a Lobby Correspondent, have reached Moscow in their search for Kuprin, a Soviet rocket expert whom they knew at Cambridge and whom they hope to persuade to return to England. Now Laye-Parker has been arrested by the M.V.D. on unspecified charges, and Smith, a reluctant partner in the enterprise, must carry on the search alone.

Jun 25, 1961
E32

That Lady

A one-eyed adventuress at the court of Philip II of Spain becomes embroiled in scandal and intrigue.

Jul 9, 1961
E33

Listen James

Jul 23, 1961
E34

Brian Rix Presents #13: Basinful of the Briny

Aug 6, 1961
E35

The Winslow Boy

The Winslow family return from church to their house in South Kensington on a summer morning in 1912 not knowing how their lives will be altered by their son, Ronnie, who has been expelled from Naval College for stealing a five shilling postal order.

Aug 20, 1961
E36

Wet Fish

Sep 3, 1961
E37

The Hasty Heart

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.

Sep 17, 1961