Drama 61-67

1. The Cruel Day

Air Date: 1961-03-19

The Captain's transfer to a lonely outpost in Algeria may have appeared merely a routine posting to him. But dealing with the rebels forces him to face a problem he has shirked all his life: it forces him to face himself.

2. The Takers

Air Date: 1961-04-02

3. The Long Distance Blue

Air Date: 1961-04-17

4. The Executioners

Air Date: 1961-04-30

5. Edge of Truth

Air Date: 1961-05-14

6. The Big Pride

Air Date: 1961-05-28

Based on the BBC radio drama, "The University of Hunger," it tells the story of the harsh reality faced by three men after they break out of prison.

7. The Diamond Run

Air Date: 1961-06-11

8. The Machine Calls It Murder

Air Date: 1961-06-25

Peter Meinecke an insurance agent, has a state of the art computer for dealing with his policies. The computer alarms him when it detects that several claims are fraudulent and murder maybe involved.... it also predicts the next victim.

9. The Dinner Party

Air Date: 1961-07-09

10. Journey to Nowhere

Air Date: 1961-07-23

11. Love and Penguins

Air Date: 1961-08-06

12. The Best of Everything

Air Date: 1961-08-20

Jimmy Brewster just wants the best of everything. And he'll do anything - anything at all - to get it.

13. The Morning Face

Air Date: 1961-09-03

14. The Glove

Air Date: 1961-09-17

15. Joke Over

Air Date: 1961-10-01

16. Local Incident

Air Date: 1961-10-15

17. So Long at the Fair

Air Date: 1961-10-29

18. Torment

Air Date: 1961-11-26

19. The Day of the Fox

Air Date: 1961-12-10

In Jan Carew's explosive drama, Sammy Davis Jr gives a memorable performance as a proud but disillusioned revolutionary who aims to destroy the remnants of white colonial rule in a new African nation.

20. The Face of the Enemy

Air Date: 1961-12-24

An unexploded bomb is found near a hospital, but a man who knows the bomb model is reluctant to help.

1. No Decision

Air Date: 1962-01-07

Driscoll is an old boxer who finds himself a celebrity hero when he describes an old bout of his on a Sydney television station, much to the chagrin of his former opponent (who is now a Melbourne Governor), who decides to meet Driscoll and settle the matter once and for all.

2. The Days and Nights of Beebee

Air Date: 1962-01-14

3. The Lonesome Road

Air Date: 1962-01-21

After thankfully bidding goodbye to a clinging bore on a train journey, Charles realizes after, that there was something rather strange about him which was going to leave a deep, disturbing impression.

4. The Key

Air Date: 1962-01-28

5. Court Martial

Air Date: 1962-05-20

6. The Daughters

Air Date: 1962-05-27

7. Peace with Terror

Air Date: 1962-06-03

8. The Power of Zero

Air Date: 1962-06-17

9. The Enemy

Air Date: 1962-07-01

10. The Frightened Man

Air Date: 1962-07-15

11. Teeth of Treason

Air Date: 1962-07-29

The shattered pieces of a plane crash lead to a trek across Europe and back again by suspicious investigators.

12. 12

Air Date: 1962-08-05

13. Recruiting Poster

Air Date: 1962-08-12

14. 14

Air Date: 1962-08-19

15. Luck of the Draw

Air Date: 1962-09-09

Arthur, a shy Cockney waiter is unlucky and clumsy in the pursuit of love on the dance floor, so he visits a marriage bureau who matches him with Jenny, a girl from the north who has just moved to London.

16. A Question of Pride

Air Date: 1962-09-23

17. The Frightened Sky

Air Date: 1962-10-07

Two planes set off from London for the United Nations in New York. On board one of them is Lord Stapleton who is going to talk to the Russians in order to try an avoid a catastrophe. Meanwhile a newspaper office in London receives a call from a man who is about to die.

18. A Chance in Life

Air Date: 1962-10-21

19. The Slaughter Men

Air Date: 1962-11-18

20. The Pinedus Affair

Air Date: 1962-12-02

21. The Betrayers

Air Date: 1962-12-16

22. Room for Justice

Air Date: 1962-12-30

1. Passing Through

Air Date: 1963-01-13

2. This Is Not King's Cross

Air Date: 1963-01-27

3. Rosemary

Air Date: 1963-02-10

4. A Love of Treason

Air Date: 1963-02-24

5. My Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen

Air Date: 1963-03-10

6. 54 Minute Affair

Air Date: 1963-03-24

The title relates to the running time of the play, which is also the time span in which the drama takes place. Harry meets Sue at a night club and there is instant chemistry between them on the dance floor. After leaving separately, the self doubting, self critical Harry has one last chance as he meets Sue again at the train station.

7. Somebody's Dying

Air Date: 1963-04-07

Tom Cameron is found on the street dying from a gun shot wound, it would have been a routine column inch for newspaper reporter Mick Lambert, but he starts to get more involved as he discovers Cameron is from a good family but is also the suspect of a robbery involving just a pittance. A play that examines the increasing isolation in society and how everyone takes their piece from someone in trouble.

8. Image of a Society

Air Date: 1963-04-21

9. The Freewheelers

Air Date: 1963-05-05

Teenagers are stealing cars just for joyriding. Their escapades with the cars become increasingly more daring until they are brought to the attention of the criminal fraternity.

10. Night of the Leopard

Air Date: 1963-05-19

11. The Taxi's for Johnnie

Air Date: 1963-06-02

Johnnie starts to question his world, whether its real or just a dream?

12. Andersen

Air Date: 1963-06-16

13. The Lady and the Clerk

Air Date: 1963-06-30

Mrs Dehoot and Mr Lott bump into each other in a cupboard, discover they both have to hide from the same person.

14. Rasputin Was a Nice Old Man

Air Date: 1963-07-14

15. A Well Dressed Man

Air Date: 1963-07-28

Philip quickly comes to regret volunteering to be a witness in a murder trial.

16. Albert Hope

Air Date: 1963-08-11

17. The Hooded Terror

Air Date: 1963-08-18

18. The Perfect Friday

Air Date: 1963-09-08

A crooked bank employee persuades a down and out, to be a substitute for a man who collects a quarter of a million pounds from the bank every Friday.

19. Harbour Island

Air Date: 1963-09-22

20. The Double Doll

Air Date: 1963-10-06

21. Loop

Air Date: 1963-10-20

In order to survive, inhabitants from the future are playing havoc with the present day (1963). A pulse from the TV set puts the present day population into a trance, however this time a group of individuals are not affected, and begin to understand that the world maybe not of their making...

22. Question of Guilt

Air Date: 1963-11-03

It tells the story of Xu Sanduo, an ordinary soldier born in the countryside, who did not abandon or give up, and finally became an outstanding scout.

23. Eyes Down and Look In

Air Date: 1963-11-24

24. Leave All Hope Behind

Air Date: 1963-12-08

25. Dead Darling

Air Date: 1963-12-22

1. Across the Border

Air Date: 1964-01-05

2. The Crunch

Air Date: 1964-01-19

A megalomaniac dictator, in charge of a former colony, installs a nuclear bomb in its London Embassy. He threatens to set it off, unless a huge ransom is paid. The question for the government is whether he will set it off anyway?

3. Better Luck Next Time

Air Date: 1964-02-02

4. The Devil and John Brown

Air Date: 1964-02-23

Based on the true story of the three week ordeal suffered by Scottish collier John Brown in 1845.

5. A Wicked World

Air Date: 1964-03-08

6. The Happy Moorings

Air Date: 1964-03-22

7. The Close Prisoner

Air Date: 1964-04-19

8. A Fear of Strangers

Air Date: 1964-05-10

A study of racial tension as a corrupt Chief Inspector attempts to coerce a black suspect into confessing to a murder he did not commit.

9. The Brick Umbrella

Air Date: 1964-05-31

10. A Menace to Decent People

Air Date: 1964-06-21

11. The Big Toe

Air Date: 1964-09-20

12. A Memory of October

Air Date: 1964-10-11

13. The Trouble with England

Air Date: 1964-11-01

14. Miss Hanago

Air Date: 1964-11-22

15. It's Sad About Eddie

Air Date: 1964-12-20

Songwriter Eddie has a big problem - every time he submits a new song, he finds that someone else seems already to have written it. It's as if someone were reading his mind - but that's impossible, isn't it?

1. The Vanishing Trick

Air Date: 1965-02-28

2. 2

Air Date: 1965-03-07

3. Mrs. Quilley's Murder Shoes

Air Date: 1965-05-23

4. A Question of Disposal

Air Date: 1965-06-20

5. Come in to My Parlour

Air Date: 1965-07-11

6. The Late Edwina Black

Air Date: 1965-08-01

7. Curtains for Sheila

Air Date: 1965-08-22

8. Traitor at the Gate

Air Date: 1965-09-12

1. Don Quixote Go Home

Air Date: 1966-11-26

An ex army officer is charmed by a young woman (herself the daughter of a soldier) into joining the 'ban the bomb' movement, much to the surprise of his family.

2. A Hero of Modern Industry

Air Date: 1966-12-03

3. Conduct to the Prejudice

Air Date: 1966-12-10

4. One Day It Could Be Different

Air Date: 1966-12-17

5. The Assassin at the Door

Air Date: 1966-12-31

6. Myopia

Air Date: 1967-01-07

7. Cross My Heart and Hope She'll Die

Air Date: 1967-01-14

8. Mr. Irtin

Air Date: 1967-01-21

Orphaned as a child and living in digs all his life, shy Mr Irtin in his forties experiences late adolescent love for a typist at work, a girl young enough to be his daughter. It ends in tears for Mr Irtin.