Based on the play "La foire d'empoigne" by Jean Anouilh.
Guest Stars:
Robert Helpmann, Kenneth Williams, David Horne, Basil Henson
A soldier named Postnikov rescues a drowning man.
Guest Stars:
Richard Hurndall, Derek Newark, James Maxwell, Michael Hordern, Bill Fraser
Three people find themselves sharing a room with no way out. As they talk, the nature of the room and how they came to be there is gradually revealed.
Guest Stars:
Harold Pinter, Jane Arden, Katherine Woodville, Jonathan Hansen, André Boulay
A young woman's dreams of death but The Pale Rider fills her dreams along with her lover.
Guest Stars:
Joan Hackett, Keir Dullea, John Drainie, Ruth Springford, Deborah Turnbull
A lodger, recuperating from a heart attack, sets his sights on his landlady.
Guest Stars:
Rupert Davies, Nigel Stock, Daphne Slater, Edward Evans, Meg Wynn Owen
Coronation Day, 1761: A merchant entertains a guest with an extraordinary secret.
Guest Stars:
Michael Goodliffe, Jean Anderson, Laurence Hardy, Claire Nielson, Gary Bond
Sigismondo Malatesta is a condottiere, a mercenary for hire and patron of the arts.
Guest Stars:
Patrick Wymark, Jessica Dunning, Cyril Shaps, John Glyn-Jones, John Hollis
Dramatisation of the failed plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler in July 1944 by a conspiracy of high-ranking German Army officers.
Guest Stars:
Peter Copley, Joseph Fürst, John Lee, John Abineri, John Carson
A study of a boy's passion for an older girl as he discovers the difference between infatuation and true love.
Guest Stars:
Gillie Fenwick, Heather Sears, Gerard Parkes, Richard Monette, Paul Harding
Archibald Cooper is a London gangster who is living the life of a country squire while running a criminal empire. He learns that he's getting a knighthood so invites some old associates to country house unaware they are planning a robbery.
Guest Stars:
Lee Montague, Griffith Davies, George Tovey, Tony Selby, Richard Shaw
A group of politicians and university dons argue over whether a new university should have a chapel or a state-of-the-art lecture hall.
Guest Stars:
Michael Hordern, Alec McCowen, John Phillips, Colin Jeavons, Christopher Benjamin
A tale of romance between two working class navvies.
Guest Stars:
George Baker, Patience Collier, Kathleen Byron, Andrée Melly, Richard Pearson
In a parallel totalitarian Great Britain, those in authority are Black people, and white people are their social underdogs — a reversal of the situation in then-contemporary apartheid South Africa.
Guest Stars:
Keith Barron, Eileen Atkins, Ronald Lacey, Thomas Baptiste, Rudolph Walker
Dan Sankey, the charity knocker, has become a national celebrity but who is the man behind the image?
Guest Stars:
Barry Foster, Antony Carrick, Michael Brennan, Ernest Clark, Philip Locke
Barbara is an assertive, clever, liberated woman, her own boss. Who'd think she could be swept off her feet by a handsome stranger for whom she'd give up her career, London, everything? Especially as her new husband maybe wants to kill her.
Guest Stars:
Toby Robins, Scott Forbes, Tony Steedman, Frederick Danner, Madeleine Burgess
A young couple celebrate their wedding anniversary with a night on the town.
Guest Stars:
Neville Smith, Sheila Fearn, William Holmes, John Clive, William Gaunt
A trio of swindlers advertise a self-assertiveness seminar, lure a dozen victims to a hotel and attempt to persuade them to enroll in their course. However, a man claiming to be 18th century critic-essayist William Hazlitt attacks the consumerist values outlined by the motivational speaker.
Guest Stars:
Geoffrey Matthews, Dennis Price, Stanley Baxter, Neil McCarthy, Artro Morris
Astronaut Osborne is stuck in a malfunctioning capsule. As he goes round and round the Earth, he starts telling jokes and secrets. When the time comes to bring him down to Earth, he can't face it as he feels like a sexual failure.
Guest Stars:
Barry Foster, Jeremy Kemp, David Bauer, Jerry Stovin, Robert Arden
Peter and Cathy are initially delighted to see their charismatic, subtly domineering friend Robin. But he outstays his welcome, and that's to say the least of it.
Guest Stars:
Alfred Lynch, Glenda Jackson
Guest Stars:
Robert Ayres, Hal Hamilton, John Bailey

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