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Season 2

October 6, 1965

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37 episodes
Season 2
The War Game

The War Game

Oct 6, 19651h 15m0 votes

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Alice

Alice

Oct 13, 19651h 15m0 votes
Director: Gareth Davies

In this look at Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898), aka Lewis Carroll, Potter mixed biographical drama with a psychological profile to explore the roots of Dodgson's creativity. Dodgson tells stories to ten-year-old Alice Liddell, leading to recreations of scenes adapted from ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND (1865), designed to resemble the original Sir John Tenniel illustrations.

5 guest stars
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The Girl Who Loved Robots

The Girl Who Loved Robots

Oct 20, 19651h 15m0 votes
Director: Brian Parker

Night club girl Victory Ducann is found murdered, the main suspect is an astronaut, but police are prevented from approaching him as he is due to fly off to the Moon.

4 guest stars
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A Designing Woman

A Designing Woman

Oct 27, 19651h 15m0 votes
Director: Brian Parker

Milly has been at it again.

2 guest stars
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Up The Junction

Up The Junction

Nov 3, 19651h 15m0 votes
Director: Ken Loach

Fragments of the life of three working-class women, and the people around them, in South London in the 1960s. Scenes in homes, streets, pubs, prison and their workplace cover family, friendship, romance, sex, and abortion.

6 guest stars
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The Trial and Torture of Sir John Rampayne

The Trial and Torture of Sir John Rampayne

Nov 10, 19651h 15m0 votes
Director: Peter Duguid

An elderly right-wing politician is kidnapped, seemingly as part of a student prank. But his captors have a more alarming agenda.

6 guest stars
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The End of Arthur's Marriage

The End of Arthur's Marriage

Nov 17, 19651h 15m0 votes
Director: Ken Loach

A simple-minded man on the outs with his wife and her family must take a large amount of his father-in-law's hard-earned money to buy a house, in the belief that home-ownership will make him responsible and respectable. Instead, he throws it away on a mad spending spree with his daughter.

5 guest stars
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Tomorrow, Just You Wait

Tomorrow, Just You Wait

Nov 24, 19651h 15m0 votes
Director: James Ferman

Jimmy is young, earning good money and going out with a smashing girl. What more could a man wish for?

3 guest stars
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The Bond

The Bond

Dec 1, 19651h 15m0 votes
Director: Mary Ridge

Newlyweds Chris and Sally are young and attractive, with successful careers and a beautiful home. Their future is rosy. However, trying to make marriage work is not easy.

3 guest stars
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Stand Up, Nigel Barton
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Stand Up, Nigel Barton

Dec 8, 19651h 15m1 votes
Director: Gareth Davies

It deals with the experiences of Nigel Barton, a young man from a poor mining community who wins a scholarship to Oxford University. The villagers accuse him of snobbery, while the rich University students treat him like a peasant. Uncertain of which sphere he should be moving in, Nigel tries to reconcile himself with his proud but stubborn father, and also succeed at University, despite its pretentions which appal him.

4 guest stars
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Vote, Vote, Vote For Nigel Barton

Vote, Vote, Vote For Nigel Barton

Dec 15, 19651h 15m0 votes
Director: Gareth Davies

Candidate Nigel Barton goes from idealism to cynicism as he becomes disillusioned and suspicious of hollow campaign promises.

6 guest stars
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The Coming Out Party

The Coming Out Party

Dec 22, 19651h 15m0 votes
Director: Ken Loach

A boy begins a search in Notting Hill shortly before Christmas.

4 guest stars
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The Bone Yard

The Bone Yard

Jan 5, 19661h 15m0 votes
Director: James MacTaggart

Mrs. Miller wants to know why her husband has been working nights. PC Miller claims that a statue of Jesus on the cross has spoken to him in the graveyard. When senior officers and the church get involved, is he a prophet or a fraud?

4 guest stars
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A Man On Her Back

A Man On Her Back

Jan 12, 19661h 15m0 votes
Director: Waris Hussein

John is an aspiring composer and pianist at a club and Mary is a single girl that he meets there. When friendship turns to romance, John has to contend with Colin, a charming ladies' man who turns to Mary in times of trouble.

3 guest stars
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Rodney, Our Intrepid Hero

Rodney, Our Intrepid Hero

Jan 19, 19661h 15m0 votes
Director: Michael Simpson

Anything Incorporated, an exclusive club devoted to providing the illegal and unattainable for its clients. Our intrepid hero, Rodney, is a newspaper journalist determined to expose the venture.

3 guest stars
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Calf Love

Calf Love

Jan 26, 19661h 15m0 votes
Director: Gilchrist Calder

A young English exchange student staying with a German family falls for the daughters.

5 guest stars
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Silent Song

Silent Song

Feb 2, 19661h 15m0 votes
Director: Charles Jarrott

Life in a Trappist monastery offers a life of contemplation and hard labour.

2 guest stars
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Who's A Good Boy Then?

Who's A Good Boy Then?

Feb 9, 19661h 15m0 votes
Director: James Ferman

Billy Oates meets a lady in a market and, taken by his kindness, she invites him to lodge with her and her husband. A rivalry soon develops between the young man and his landlord.

3 guest stars
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A Game - Like - Only A Game

A Game - Like - Only A Game

Feb 16, 19661h 15m0 votes
Director: Christopher Morahan

Two boys hatch a plan to get some money to go to the seaside.

3 guest stars
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Why Aren't You Famous?

Why Aren't You Famous?

Feb 23, 19661h 15m0 votes
Director: Peter Sasdy

A young Irish woman named Eileen comes to Britain with romantic ideas of fame and fortune and meets Toppet, a struggling artist with a spare room.

3 guest stars
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Macready's Gala

Macready's Gala

Mar 2, 19661h 15m0 votes
Director: Waris Hussein

The Headmaster and governors of a boarding school are accidentally locked in the new memorial room with the convicted Great Train Robbers.

4 guest stars
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A Walk In The Sea

A Walk In The Sea

Mar 9, 19661h 15m0 votes
Director: Geoffrey Nethercott

Author James Hanley, Irish by birth and Welsh by adoption, crafted a TV play about a lonely spinster having her cottage in a seaside village requisitioned by the local council for a building scheme, with tragic consequences.

4 guest stars
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Boy In The Smoke

Boy In The Smoke

Mar 16, 19661h 15m0 votes
Director: William Slater

No overview available.

3 guest stars
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Barlowe of the Car Park

Barlowe of the Car Park

Mar 23, 19661h 15m0 votes
Director: Gareth Davies

We spend a day with Barlowe, a council car park attendant.

1 guest star
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The Portsmouth Defence

The Portsmouth Defence

Mar 30, 19660 votes
Director: James MacTaggart

After an assault a man tries to find justice in court only to find that his incompetent prosecution team and the attractive female defense lawyer who wows the court, conspire against him.

4 guest stars
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Pity About The Abbey

Pity About The Abbey

Apr 6, 19660 votes
Director: Ian Curteis

Satirical play in which businessmen want to destroy Westminster Abbey to make way for a bypass.

4 guest stars
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The Big Man Coughed and Died

The Big Man Coughed and Died

Apr 13, 19660 votes
Director: Peter Duguid

Louie, a married factory worker, has just been made redundant when he meets a girl in a park and decides to change his life.

3 guest stars
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The Snow Ball

The Snow Ball

Apr 20, 19660 votes
Director: Charles Jarrott

A passionate, ambiguous relationship begins between two people who meet at a masked ball.

3 guest stars
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A Cheery Soul

A Cheery Soul

Apr 27, 19660 votes
Director: Gilchrist Calder

When a bossy do-gooder becomes homeless, she is passed from home to home.

2 guest stars
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The Connoiseur

The Connoiseur

May 4, 19660 votes
Director: Waris Hussein

A cynical housemaster at a boarding school tries to feather his nest in advance of his forthcoming retirement.

4 guest stars
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The Retreat

The Retreat

May 11, 19660 votes
Director: Charles Jarrott

A young priest, newly arrived in Dublin, is conducting a retreat for the first time.

3 guest stars
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Ape and Essence

Ape and Essence

May 18, 19660 votes
Director: David Benedictus

Eighty years after a nuclear war ravaged the British Isles, a team of scientists from New Zealand come to conduct a survey.

2 guest stars
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Toddler on the Run

Toddler on the Run

May 25, 19660 votes
Director: James MacTaggart

Morris, a homunculus, is under suspicion of having stolen the swimming pool fund from a girls' school.

4 guest stars
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The Executioner

The Executioner

Jun 1, 19660 votes
Director: Michael Hayes

Follows the assassination of Leon Trotsky.

2 guest stars
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Way Off Beat

Way Off Beat

Jun 8, 19660 votes
Director: Toby Robertson

Arthur Bradshaw is a successful fixer, with plans to start a night club.

3 guest stars
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A Soiree at Blossom's Hotel

A Soiree at Blossom's Hotel

Jun 15, 19660 votes
Director: Gilchrist Calder

A police raid on Edna Bossom's discreet hotel would be most ill-advised, in the opinion of Superintendent Willow; but one of his younger officers is determined to go ahead with one.

3 guest stars
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Cock, Hen and Counting Pit

Cock, Hen and Counting Pit

Jun 22, 19660 votes
Director: Charles Jarrott

A couple revisit a past love affair when they meet again ten years later.

3 guest stars
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