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Episodes

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1. A Walk in the Desert

September 25, 1960

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2. The Unplayed Part

October 2, 1960

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3. The Ruffians

October 9, 1960

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4. Twentieth Century Theatre: Man and Superman

January 24, 1960

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5. Twentieth Century Theatre: The White Guard

January 31, 1960

It is November 1918 and the scene is the city of Kiev in the Ukraine, lately garrisoned by the German Army of Occupation but now threatened by the approach of a large well-equipped army of Cossacks. There's no ammunition and food is desperately short in the city. But still attempts are made to raise an army of citizens to repel the invaders. Describing the impact of the collapse of the Tsarist Empire on a family of officers, this play centres on Alexei Turbin, Colonel of the White Guard, responsible for defending Kiev, and on his beautiful sister Helena, deserted by her husband and in love with a young lieutenant, Leonid Schervinsky.

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6. Twentieth Century Theatre: Our Betters

February 7, 1960

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7. Twentieth Century Theatre: MacAdam and Eve

February 14, 1960

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8. Brian Rix Presents: Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary?

February 21, 1960

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9. Twentieth Century Theatre: The Conquering Hero

February 28, 1960

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10. Twentieth Century Theatre: Journey's End

March 6, 1960

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11. Twentieth Century Theatre: The Fanatics

March 13, 1960

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12. Twentieth Century Theatre: Young Woodley

March 20, 1960

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13. Twentieth Century Theatre: I Have Been Here Before

March 27, 1960

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14. Twentieth Century Theatre: The Price of Freedom

April 3, 1960

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15. Twentieth Century Theatre: Glorious Morning

April 10, 1960

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16. Twentieth Century Theatre: The Queen Came By

April 17, 1960

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17. Twentieth Century Theatre: Love on the Dole

April 24, 1960

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18. Twentieth Century Theatre: The Vortex

May 1, 1960

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19. Twentieth Century Theatre: Judgment Day

May 8, 1960

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20. Twentieth Century Theatre: Aren't We All

May 15, 1960

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21. Twentieth Century Theatre: The Elder Statesman

May 22, 1960

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22. Twentieth Century Theatre: The Assassin

May 29, 1960

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23. Twentieth Century Theatre: Doctor in the House

June 5, 1960

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24. Twentieth Century Theatre: Mr. Gillie

June 12, 1960

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25. Twentieth Century Theatre: The Insect Play

June 19, 1960

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26. Twentieth Century Theatre: Musical Chairs

June 26, 1960

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27. Playhouse 90: A Town Has Turned to Dust

July 3, 1960

A weakling sheriff is unable to prevent a lynching. Can he redeem himself by preventing a second one?

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28. Summer Theatre: June Evening

July 10, 1960

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29. Summer Theatre: You're a Long Time Dead

July 17, 1960

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30. Summer Theatre: My Flesh, My Blood

July 24, 1960

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31. Summer Theatre: The Critical Point

July 31, 1960

Dr. Gage, involved in cryogenics, volunteers to be the first frozen man after murdering his wife. Dr. Mortimer discovers who killed his wife and ponders whether he should play judge and jury by switching Dr. Gage's freezing machine off?

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32. Summer Theatre: A Dream of Treason

August 7, 1960

Lambert, a government official, is required to leak a secret document - which may have serious consequences.

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33. Summer Theatre: The Devil's General

August 14, 1960

General Harras, a hero of the First World War, finds himself increasingly at odds with the new Germany of Adolf Hitler.

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34. Summer Theatre: The Liberators

August 21, 1960

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35. Summer Theatre: The Small Victory

August 28, 1960

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36. Summer Theatre: Death of a Guest

September 4, 1960

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37. Brian Rix Presents: Reluctant Heroes

September 11, 1960

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38. Summer Theatre: An English Summer

September 18, 1960

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39. A Walk in the Desert

September 25, 1960

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40. The Unplayed Part

October 2, 1960

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41. The Ruffians

October 9, 1960

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42. Pay Day

October 16, 1960

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81. Affair of State

December 31, 1961

Philip is much older than his wife, who is, he discovers, having an affair with his friend George. When he introduces George to a young woman, he has an ulterior motive.

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82. The Barretts of Wimpole Street

December 24, 1961

Elizabeth Barrett's tyrannical father has forbidden any of his family to marry. Nevertheless, Elizabeth falls in love with the poet Robert Browning.

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83. The Judge and His Hangman

December 17, 1961

Inspector Barlach is ruthless in pursuit of an arrest, and doesn't seem to care if anyone else gets hurt along the way.

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84. Centenary Year

December 10, 1961

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85. Somewhere for the Night

December 3, 1961

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86. She Stoops to Conquer

November 26, 1961

Hardcastle, a man of substance, looks forward to acquainting his daughter with his old pal's son with a view to marriage. But thanks to playboy Lumpkin, he's mistaken by his prospective son-in-law Marlow for an innkeeper, his daughter for the local barmaid. The good news is, while Marlow can barely speak to a woman of quality he's a charmer with those of a different stamp.

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87. Cross of Iron

November 19, 1961

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88. Brian Rix Presents #14: Flat Spin

November 12, 1961

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89. The Test

November 5, 1961

Pressure mounts on a group of scientists as they urgently prepare to test a new top secret weapon.

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90. Hello Ragtime

October 29, 1961

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91. The Big Noise

October 22, 1961

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92. What Every Woman Knows

October 15, 1961

Maggie Wylie isn't very beautiful. She isn't even very young any more. But fortunately there is more to Maggie than meets the eye.

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93. Faraway Places

October 8, 1961

Kindly, mild mannered clerk Arthur Bruce dreams of traveling to distant lands and reads books about faraway places.

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94. A Clean Kill

October 1, 1961

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95. The Hasty Heart

September 17, 1961

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.

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96. Wet Fish

September 3, 1961

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97. The Winslow Boy

August 20, 1961

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.

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98. Brian Rix presents: Basinful of the Briny

August 6, 1961

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99. That Lady

July 9, 1961

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100. A Call on Kuprin: Part 1

June 18, 1961

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?

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101. A Call on Kuprin: Part 2

June 25, 1961

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.

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102. Home at Seven

June 4, 1961

Home at seven as usual after just another Monday at the office - or that is what Mr. Preston thought. But in fact it is Tuesday and he has no recollection of the past twenty-four hours. It soon becomes vital to fill this gap in his memory.

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103. Brian Rix presents: Wolf's Clothing

May 21, 1961

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104. Marriage Lines

May 14, 1961

A comedy of marriage, set in the secure partnership of two mature and worldly people, examines what happens when an envious free-lance tries to rock the boat.

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105. Scene of the Accident

April 30, 1961

When a prominent Q.C. is knocked down and killed by a car, the driver's Insurance Company is faced with paying out on a very substantial claim. Briefed to investigate possible grounds for disputing liability, Sam Holford unearths a delicate and intriguing situation.

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106. Charley's Aunt

April 16, 1961

I'm Charley's Aunt from Brazil - where the nuts come from.

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107. Brian Rix presents: A Fair Cop

April 2, 1961

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108. Fury in Petticoats

March 26, 1961

It is 1837 and we are in the home of the Rev. William Dill, the vicar of a small parish in England. Life there is peaceful and leisurely until one day the vicar welcomes into his household a native girl brought from Tierra del Fuego by a Mr. Charles Darwin....

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109. The Wrong Side of the Park

March 19, 1961

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110. Old Mick Mack

March 12, 1961

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111. A Reason for Staying

March 5, 1961

A group of Eastern European emigres, now living in England, still hope that they will one day return to their home-land in authority. But one of them, a general, has a reason for staying.....

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112. The Mather Story

February 26, 1961

A serious accusation by a famous artist about the work of another gives John Ramsay a chance to 'get something into the paper' and perhaps to keep his job on the Sunday Herald. But rapidly the story becomes a challenge-to his skill, and to his responsibility.

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113. An Inspector Calls

February 19, 1961

Spring, 1912 - for the wealthy a time of good living, gaiety, and a belief in the unshakability of the status quo. Mr. and Mrs. Birling are celebrating the engagement of their daughter Sheila to Gerald Croft, heir to a title; it is the pinnacle of Mr. Birling's successful rise in society.....

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114. The Intervener

February 12, 1961

Jeremy Penlove is a London solicitor and a confirmed bachelor. His life is placid and uncomplicated until, one fine summer's day, a new client, Lily Forrester, walks into his office to turn his world upside down.

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115. The Final Result

February 5, 1961

John Horner's father, mother, and sister are waiting to hear the result of his degree examination. He is the only one who is not surprised: it is what he expected it to be. It is this result, and the action John takes as a consequence, which reveals, nakedly, the conflict within this family group.

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116. A Kind of Strength

January 29, 1961

Two men, both trapped in the world of commerce, struggle for freedom. In facing the truth about themselves, the decisions they have to make need a rare kind of strength.

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117. Off Centre

January 22, 1961

Joe Hunter is a scientist living two lives: one as he sees himself, and the other as the world, sees him. The story spans the years from 1917, when he was a young pilot in the Royal Flying Corps, to the present day - when the man and his ideas come into headlong collision.

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118. A Woman Comes Home

January 15, 1961

Home has many meanings; a refuge from strain, the start of 'growing up'; the source of compassion and understanding. When these are lost there is desolation, but if they are fought for, no matter with what human frailty, life may grow again out of a new wisdom.

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119. Venus Brown

January 8, 1961

For Jack Brown, his wife Venus is a goddess in more than name. But she is not a goddess, she is a human being, and it is dangerous to worship human beings.

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120. Nearer to Heaven

January 1, 1961

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121. The Chopping Block

October 23, 1960

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122. Looking for Garrow

October 30, 1960

American business woman Clarissa comes to England seeking one J.S. Garrow - author of an alarmingly frank new novel. But it looks as though her teenage daughter has already found Garrow - and he is franker and more alarming than his book!

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123. A Subject of Scandal and Concern

November 6, 1960

In 1842, a rebel in Cheltenham and Gloucester imprisoned for his beliefs and for the right to express them.

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124. The Wind and the Sun

November 13, 1960

Ruth and Lewis Miller's marriage is almost at breaking point. The result upon their two children of the tension created by this situation is revealed in the play as an important question in modern life. The play is not regarded as suitable for viewing by children.

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125. The Squeeze

November 20, 1960

Should Big Tom, a colliery face repairer, confronted by the onset of middle age, continue with his work at the risk of his life, or settle for something safer at the risk of his self-respect?

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126. The Nightwalkers

November 27, 1960

A young British student wandering through France today becomes involved with remnants of a former French Resistance group.

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127. The Assassins

December 4, 1960

A quiet evening at home for a normal fairly prosperous middle-class family is suddenly disrupted by the arrival of two strangers - two men with a mission, fanatical and ruthless, prepared to kill if necessary; but these men are not criminals-they would be described by some as patriots.

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128. The Song of a March Hare

December 11, 1960

Crumble is convinced that he was born for success in business. All he needs is a chance to prove it, and this comes with an unexpected legacy.

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129. A Time to Fight

December 18, 1960

Housewife Ellen Manders had no reason to suspect that this evening was going to be any different from any other until her husband arrived home late with his shoes and brief-case covered in mud.

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130. Tuppence in the Gods

December 25, 1960