Episode 1
Big Brain Man
1960-09-11
Much to the delight of fellow tenants, a tenant becomes the landlord. Their delight is short lived when he starts behaving just like the previous landlord.
TV season
1960-09-11
Episode 1
1960-09-11
Much to the delight of fellow tenants, a tenant becomes the landlord. Their delight is short lived when he starts behaving just like the previous landlord.
Episode 2
1960-09-18
Episode 3
1960-09-25
Tom, a sensitive Liverpool student, takes a job on a loading dock in a Lancashire factory town. He becomes smitten with a girl named Lena who works in the machine shop next door, and despite a bullying driver who claims her for herself, he manages to take her out on a date.
Episode 4
1960-10-02
Episode 5
1960-10-09
Episode 6
1960-10-16
Episode 7
1960-10-23
A retired couple with many unresolved old scores to settle, argue and bicker while their world decays around them.
Episode 8
1960-10-30
Ambition takes hold of fashion-house salesman Ronnie Page as he forgets those closest to him in his desire for a successful career.
Episode 9
1960-11-06
Episode 10
1960-11-13
Episode 11
1960-11-20
Episode 12
1960-11-27
Episode 13
1960-12-04
Episode 14
1960-12-11
When Fred Watson's wife and landlady disappear, and he is seen papering over two cupboards in his bedroom, the police are called in.
Episode 15
1960-12-18
A prostitute finds redemption in Pago Pago thanks to a hard missionary man.
Episode 16
1960-12-25
Robbery from a moving train? Impossible.
Episode 17
1961-01-01
Episode 18
1961-01-08
Episode 19
1961-01-15
Episode 20
1961-01-22
A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all.
Episode 21
1961-01-29
Lancashire newlyweds Violet and Arthur Fitton are forced to postpone their honeymoon and move in temporarily with his parents.
Episode 22
1961-02-05
A man and his wife plan to murder his eccentric wealthy sister.
Episode 23
1961-02-12
Episode 24
1961-02-19
Episode 25
1961-02-26
Episode 26
1961-03-03
Unscrupulous business Sir Pierson Cale is determined to win the contract to build a power station. He sees John Hamilton as someone who can get the job done but he wants him to bid half a million less than his nearest competitor.
Episode 27
1961-03-12
A Russian astronaut trapped in space in a faulty rocket, has five hours to live when his radio makes contact with Marie, a hunter's wife also trapped, in a blizzard swept area of Canada. Her daughter is dying of diphtheria, he as a doctor can help her.
Episode 28
1961-03-26
Episode 29
1961-04-09
Episode 30
1961-04-23
Episode 31
1961-05-21
In Ulster, Major Trumbull is put in charge of overseeing the completion of a hospital on time. As the pressure increases, he replaces well-liked foreman Desmond Doherty with brash Scanling, which angers the men.
Episode 32
1961-05-21
Episode 33
1961-04-23
Episode 34
1961-04-30
A writer who lives in carefully-protected seclusion does not welcome a young woman's intrusion into his life.
Episode 35
1961-05-07
Episode 36
1961-05-14
A ship powered by a nuclear reactor, is heading for the port of New York and is unable to slow down.
Episode 37
1961-05-21
Episode 38
1961-05-28
The younger son of a working-class Jewish family in Montreal, Duddy Kravitz yearns to make a name for himself in society. This film chronicles his short and dubious rise to power, as well as his changing relationships with family and friends. Along the way the film explores the themes of anti-semitism and the responsibilities which come with adulthood.
Episode 39
1961-06-04
We see two typists aging as they spend 40 years together in the same office.
Episode 40
1961-06-11
After Clive is dishonourably discharged from the army for failing to shoot an unarmed terrorist, he finds his return to his hometown no easy matter.