Episodes
1. Talking to a Stranger, Part 1: Anytime You're Ready I'll Sparkle
October 2, 1966
90 min
Over the course of a single weekend, the Stevens family's lives will change forever.
Guest Stars:
Judi Dench, Michael Bryant, Maurice Denham, Margery Mason, Pinkie Johnstone
2. Talking to a Stranger, Part 2: No Skill or Special Knowledge is Required
October 9, 1966
90 min
Over the course of a single weekend, the Stevens family's lives will change forever.
Guest Stars:
Judi Dench, Michael Bryant, Maurice Denham, Margery Mason, Emrys James
3. Talking to a Stranger, Part 3: Gladly My Cross-Eyed Bear
October 16, 1966
90 min
Over the course of a single weekend, the Stevens family's lives will change forever.
Guest Stars:
Judi Dench, Michael Bryant, Maurice Denham, Maryann Turner, Windsor Davies
4. Talking to a Stranger, Part 4: The Innocent Must Suffer
October 23, 1966
90 min
Over the course of a single weekend, the Stevens family's lives will change forever.
Guest Stars:
Judi Dench, Michael Bryant, Maurice Denham, Margery Mason, Emrys James
5. Conquest: The Encounter
October 29, 1966
Guest Stars:
Barrie Ingham, Donald Eccles, Hamilton Dyce, Arthur Pentelow, Gordon Whiting
6. Conquest: The Leopard and the Dragon
October 30, 1966
Guest Stars:
Barrie Ingham, Donald Eccles, Hamilton Dyce, Arthur Pentelow, Peter Halliday
7. Amerika
November 6, 1966
120 min
After a minor scandal involving a servant girl, young Karl is packed off to America, a land he finds distinctly strange.
Guest Stars:
Michael Wennink, Bernard Bresslaw, Harold Goldblatt, Roy Dotrice, George Murcell
8. The Family Reunion
November 27, 1966
Dark secrets emerge when a family gathers for a birthday party at their country house.
Guest Stars:
Alec McCowen, Mary Morris, Mary Merrall, Janet Suzman, Geoffrey Bayldon
9. Anatol
December 4, 1966
Guest Stars:
Robert Hardy, John Wood, Moira Redmond, Elvi Hale, Priscilla Morgan
10. Sword of Honour, Part 1: Men at Arms
January 2, 1967
Prevented by his strict Roman Catholicism from divorcing his faithless wife, Guy Crouchback prepares for war in 1939.
Guest Stars:
Edward Woodward, Trader Faulkner, Vivian Pickles, Anthony Roye, Geoffrey Wincott
11. Sword of Honour, Part 2: Officers and Gentlemen
January 9, 1967
As he journeys through the Second World War, Crouchback undergoes various grotesque adventures, both comic and tragic.
Guest Stars:
Edward Woodward, Trader Faulkner, Vivian Pickles, Anthony Roye, James Villiers
12. Sword of Honour, Part 3: Unconditional Surrender
January 16, 1967
At the end of the war, Crouchback ponders his future.
Guest Stars:
Edward Woodward, Trader Faulkner, Vivian Pickles, Anthony Roye, Geoffrey Wincott
13. A Slight Ache
February 6, 1967
58 min
Married couple Edward and Flora explore their dreams and desires, primarily Edward's fears of the unknown, of aging, and of the 'Other' as a threat to his self-identity.
Guest Stars:
Maurice Denham, Hazel Hughes, Gordon Richardson
14. A Night Out
February 13, 1967
60 min
Albert, a shy and repressed young man who lives with his mother, is persuaded to go for 'a night out' with his workmates; it turns nightmarish.
Guest Stars:
Tony Selby, Anna Wing, John Castle, Richard Moore, Patrick Cato
15. The Basement
February 20, 1967
55 min
An uneasy friendship between an introspective loner and a more gregarious man is renewed when the latter turns up at the former's basement flat one rainy night accompanied by an enigmatic, beautiful, mostly silent, girlfriend.
Guest Stars:
Derek Godfrey, Harold Pinter, Kika Markham
16. Hotel Torpe
March 13, 1967
Guest Stars:
Siobhán McKenna, John Slater, Ronald Hines, Hamilton Dyce, Joby Blanshard
17. As a Man Grows Older
April 3, 1967
Guest Stars:
Derek Godfrey, Ilona Rodgers, Peter Blythe, Hilary Hardiman, John Baker
18. Kain
April 17, 1967
Brothers Kain and Rattler Sutherland live on a Northern Territory station. The unstable Kain clashes with the more laid-back Rattler over several issues - money, treatment of local Blacks, cattle, but most of all, their Aboriginal housemaid, Kaita, whom Kain is convinced Rattler has impregnated.
Guest Stars:
Keith Michell, Alan White, Candy Devine, Audine Leith, J.G. Devlin
19. The Loser
May 1, 1967
Guest Stars:
Bernard Cribbins, Geraldine Moffat, Godfrey Quigley, George Hilsdon, Bert Lena
21. The Fantasist
May 15, 1967
Guest Stars:
James Villiers, Charlotte Rampling, Anthony Bate, Paul Hardwick, Tim Preece
22. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
May 29, 1967
Guest Stars:
Edward Fox, Bryan Pringle, Felix Felton, Bartlett Mullins, Jeffrey Segal
24. Henry IV
June 26, 1967
In twentieth-century Italy, a man insists that he is Enrico Quattro, an Italian monarch from centuries before. Obviously, he's a madman - isn't he?
Guest Stars:
Alan Badel, Maxine Audley, Anthony Newlands, Kika Markham, Neville Jason
25. Firebrand
July 2, 1967
Guest Stars:
Anton Diffring, Ronald Lacey, Annette Carell, Peter Vaughan, Kenneth J. Warren
26. The Plough and the Stars
July 16, 1967
A husband clashes with his wife over his membership to the Irish citizen army.
Guest Stars:
Clive Geraghty, Kate Binchy, Eric Gorman, Marie Kean, Barbara Brennan
27. Tickle Times
July 30, 1967
Guest Stars:
Diana Coupland, John Stratton, David Collings, Keith Bell, Angela Crow
28. 55 Columns
August 6, 1967
Guest Stars:
Rani Dubé, Heather Emmanuel, Lalita Ahmed, Kalyani Sitaram, Esme Sen
29. Stan's Day Out
August 13, 1967
Guest Stars:
Alfie Bass, Leslie Dwyer, Roddy McMillan, Bryan Pringle, Michael Robbins
