Sunday-Night Play

BBC anthology drama series that ran over four seasons and replaced the previous BBC Sunday Night Theatre series.

Seasons

1. A Walk in the Desert

Air Date: 1960-09-25

2. The Unplayed Part

Air Date: 1960-10-02

3. The Ruffians

Air Date: 1960-10-09

4. Twentieth Century Theatre: Man and Superman

Air Date: 1960-01-24

5. Twentieth Century Theatre: The White Guard

Air Date: 1960-01-31

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.

6. Twentieth Century Theatre: Our Betters

Air Date: 1960-02-07

7. Twentieth Century Theatre: MacAdam and Eve

Air Date: 1960-02-14

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

Air Date: 1960-02-21

9. Twentieth Century Theatre: The Conquering Hero

Air Date: 1960-02-28

10. Twentieth Century Theatre: Journey's End

Air Date: 1960-03-06

11. Twentieth Century Theatre: The Fanatics

Air Date: 1960-03-13

12. Twentieth Century Theatre: Young Woodley

Air Date: 1960-03-20

13. Twentieth Century Theatre: I Have Been Here Before

Air Date: 1960-03-27

14. Twentieth Century Theatre: The Price of Freedom

Air Date: 1960-04-03

15. Twentieth Century Theatre: Glorious Morning

Air Date: 1960-04-10

16. Twentieth Century Theatre: The Queen Came By

Air Date: 1960-04-17

17. Twentieth Century Theatre: Love on the Dole

Air Date: 1960-04-24

18. Twentieth Century Theatre: The Vortex

Air Date: 1960-05-01

19. Twentieth Century Theatre: Judgment Day

Air Date: 1960-05-08

20. Twentieth Century Theatre: Aren't We All

Air Date: 1960-05-15

21. Twentieth Century Theatre: The Elder Statesman

Air Date: 1960-05-22

22. Twentieth Century Theatre: The Assassin

Air Date: 1960-05-29

23. Twentieth Century Theatre: Doctor in the House

Air Date: 1960-06-05

24. Twentieth Century Theatre: Mr. Gillie

Air Date: 1960-06-12

25. Twentieth Century Theatre: The Insect Play

Air Date: 1960-06-19

26. Twentieth Century Theatre: Musical Chairs

Air Date: 1960-06-26

27. Playhouse 90: A Town Has Turned to Dust

Air Date: 1960-07-03

28. Summer Theatre: June Evening

Air Date: 1960-07-10

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

Air Date: 1960-07-17

30. Summer Theatre: My Flesh, My Blood

Air Date: 1960-07-24

31. Summer Theatre: The Critical Point

Air Date: 1960-07-31

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?

32. Summer Theatre: A Dream of Treason

Air Date: 1960-08-07

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

33. Summer Theatre: The Devil's General

Air Date: 1960-08-14

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

34. Summer Theatre: The Liberators

Air Date: 1960-08-21

35. Summer Theatre: The Small Victory

Air Date: 1960-08-28

36. Summer Theatre: Death of a Guest

Air Date: 1960-09-04

37. Brian Rix Presents: Reluctant Heroes

Air Date: 1960-09-11

38. Summer Theatre: An English Summer

Air Date: 1960-09-18

39. A Walk in the Desert

Air Date: 1960-09-25

40. The Unplayed Part

Air Date: 1960-10-02

41. The Ruffians

Air Date: 1960-10-09

42. Pay Day

Air Date: 1960-10-16

81. Affair of State

Air Date: 1961-12-31

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.

82. The Barretts of Wimpole Street

Air Date: 1961-12-24

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

83. The Judge and His Hangman

Air Date: 1961-12-17

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

84. Centenary Year

Air Date: 1961-12-10

85. Somewhere for the Night

Air Date: 1961-12-03

86. She Stoops to Conquer

Air Date: 1961-11-26

87. Cross of Iron

Air Date: 1961-11-19

88. Brian Rix Presents #14: Flat Spin

Air Date: 1961-11-12

89. The Test

Air Date: 1961-11-05

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

90. Hello Ragtime

Air Date: 1961-10-29

91. The Big Noise

Air Date: 1961-10-22

92. What Every Woman Knows

Air Date: 1961-10-15

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.

93. Faraway Places

Air Date: 1961-10-08

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

94. A Clean Kill

Air Date: 1961-10-01

95. The Hasty Heart

Air Date: 1961-09-17

96. Wet Fish

Air Date: 1961-09-03

97. The Winslow Boy

Air Date: 1961-08-20

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.

98. Brian Rix presents: Basinful of the Briny

Air Date: 1961-08-06

99. That Lady

Air Date: 1961-07-09

100. A Call on Kuprin: Part 1

Air Date: 1961-06-18

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?

101. A Call on Kuprin: Part 2

Air Date: 1961-06-25

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.

102. Home at Seven

Air Date: 1961-06-04

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.

103. Brian Rix presents: Wolf's Clothing

Air Date: 1961-05-21

104. Marriage Lines

Air Date: 1961-05-14

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.

105. Scene of the Accident

Air Date: 1961-04-30

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.

106. Charley's Aunt

Air Date: 1961-04-16

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

107. Brian Rix presents: A Fair Cop

Air Date: 1961-04-02

108. Fury in Petticoats

Air Date: 1961-03-26

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....

109. The Wrong Side of the Park

Air Date: 1961-03-19

110. Old Mick Mack

Air Date: 1961-03-12

111. A Reason for Staying

Air Date: 1961-03-05

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.....

112. The Mather Story

Air Date: 1961-02-26

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.

113. An Inspector Calls

Air Date: 1961-02-19

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.....

114. The Intervener

Air Date: 1961-02-12

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.

115. The Final Result

Air Date: 1961-02-05

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.

116. A Kind of Strength

Air Date: 1961-01-29

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.

117. Off Centre

Air Date: 1961-01-22

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.

118. A Woman Comes Home

Air Date: 1961-01-15

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.

119. Venus Brown

Air Date: 1961-01-08

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.

120. Nearer to Heaven

Air Date: 1961-01-01

121. The Chopping Block

Air Date: 1960-10-23

122. Looking for Garrow

Air Date: 1960-10-30

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!

123. A Subject of Scandal and Concern

Air Date: 1960-11-06

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

124. The Wind and the Sun

Air Date: 1960-11-13

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.

125. The Squeeze

Air Date: 1960-11-20

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?

126. The Nightwalkers

Air Date: 1960-11-27

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

127. The Assassins

Air Date: 1960-12-04

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.

128. The Song of a March Hare

Air Date: 1960-12-11

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.

129. A Time to Fight

Air Date: 1960-12-18

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.

130. Tuppence in the Gods

Air Date: 1960-12-25

1. The Chopping Block

Air Date: 1960-10-23

2. Looking for Garrow

Air Date: 1960-10-30

3. A Subject of Scandal and Concern

Air Date: 1960-11-06

A dramatized account of a Victorian cause celebre, written by John Osborne and concerning the true story of the last person in England to be tried for blasphemy. Richard Burton plays John George Holyoake, a social reformer who goes on trial for speaking in public about his atheist views. Rachel Roberts plays his wife, and the programme is introduced by Face to Face inquisitor John Freeman.

4. The Wind and the Sun

Air Date: 1960-11-13

5. The Squeeze

Air Date: 1960-11-20

Big Tom, a Welsh coal miner, has always been in control of his life; but he finds himself increasingly at odds with his growing son, and even begins to wonder if his wife still loves him.

6. The Nightwalkers

Air Date: 1960-11-27

7. The Assassins

Air Date: 1960-12-04

Ruthless assassins take over an ordinary suburban home in order to commit a political murder - but where do they come from?

8. The Song of a March Hare

Air Date: 1960-12-11

9. A Time to Fight

Air Date: 1960-12-18

10. Tuppence in the Gods

Air Date: 1960-12-25

11. Nearer to Heaven

Air Date: 1961-01-01

12. Venus Brown

Air Date: 1961-01-08

Jack Brown is devoted to his much younger wife, Venus; but she's not the goddess he thinks she is.

13. A Woman Comes Home

Air Date: 1961-01-15

Will home be the sanctuary Bobbie James needs it to be?

14. Off Centre

Air Date: 1961-01-22

Joe Hunter must face up to the reality of his existence, and stop having false ideas about himself and his own importance.

15. A Kind of Strength

Air Date: 1961-01-29

16. The Final Result

Air Date: 1961-02-05

17. The Intervener

Air Date: 1961-02-12

18. An Inspector Calls

Air Date: 1961-02-19

The comfortable lives of the wealthy Birling family are disrupted when an inspector calls on them to ask awkward questions about a girl who has committed suicide.

19. The Mather Story

Air Date: 1961-02-26

20. A Reason for Staying

Air Date: 1961-03-05

An Eastern European general who has fled his native country dreams of returning home - and of gaining military power there.

21. Old Mick Mack

Air Date: 1961-03-12

22. The Wrong Side of the Park

Air Date: 1961-03-19

23. Fury in Petticoats

Air Date: 1961-03-26

24. Brian Rix Presents #11: A Fair Cop

Air Date: 1961-04-02

25. Charley's Aunt

Air Date: 1961-04-16

Lord Fancourt Babberley is required, much against his will, to impersonate the wealthy aunt of his friend Charley.

26. Scene of the Accident

Air Date: 1961-04-30

27. Marriage Lines

Air Date: 1961-05-14

28. Brian Rix Presents #12: Wolf's Clothing

Air Date: 1961-05-21

29. Home at Seven

Air Date: 1961-06-04

Mr. Preston always gets home from the office at seven o'clock - but tonight he discovers that a whole day has unaccountably gone missing from his life.

30. A Call on Kuprin: Part 1

Air Date: 1961-06-18

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?

31. A Call on Kuprin: Part 2

Air Date: 1961-06-25

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.

32. That Lady

Air Date: 1961-07-09

A one-eyed adventuress at the court of Philip II of Spain becomes embroiled in scandal and intrigue.

33. Listen James

Air Date: 1961-07-23

34. Brian Rix Presents #13: Basinful of the Briny

Air Date: 1961-08-06

35. The Winslow Boy

Air Date: 1961-08-20

36. Wet Fish

Air Date: 1961-09-03

37. The Hasty Heart

Air Date: 1961-09-17

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. The doctors have told him he needs to remain "for observation". The Colonel takes Sister Parker, the unit head nurse, into his confidence and tells her that the real reason.

1. A Clean Kill

Air Date: 1961-10-01

2. Faraway Places

Air Date: 1961-10-08

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

3. What Every Woman Knows

Air Date: 1961-10-15

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.

4. The Big Noise

Air Date: 1961-10-22

5. Hullo Ragtime

Air Date: 1961-10-29

6. The Test

Air Date: 1961-11-05

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

7. Brian Rix Presents #14: Flat Spin

Air Date: 1961-11-12

8. Cross of Iron

Air Date: 1961-11-19

9. She Stoops to Conquer

Air Date: 1961-11-26

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. And so, as Hardcastle's indignation intensifies, Miss Hardcastle's appreciation for her misguided suitor soars. Misdemeanours multiply, love blossoms, mayhem ensues.

10. Somewhere for the Night

Air Date: 1961-12-03

11. Centenary Year

Air Date: 1961-12-10

12. The Judge and His Hangman

Air Date: 1961-12-17

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

13. The Barretts of Wimpole Street

Air Date: 1961-12-24

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

14. Affair of State

Air Date: 1961-12-31

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.

15. Means to an End

Air Date: 1962-01-07

16. Black Limelight

Air Date: 1962-01-14

17. The Rivals

Air Date: 1962-01-21

18. The Alderman

Air Date: 1962-01-28

19. The Happiest Days of Your Life

Air Date: 1962-02-04

Through a clerical error, a boys' school and a girls' school are billeted on the same premises.

20. I'll Die for You

Air Date: 1962-02-11

21. The Turning Point

Air Date: 1962-02-18

22. Sparrow in a Cage

Air Date: 1962-03-04

23. One for the Pot

Air Date: 1962-03-11

The definition of a trivial subspace and of a nontrivial subspace are provided.

24. Storm in a Teacup

Air Date: 1962-03-18

25. Both Ends Meet

Air Date: 1962-03-25

26. This Happy Breed

Air Date: 1962-04-01

The travails of an ordinary London working-class family over many years.

27. The High Mountain

Air Date: 1962-04-08

A ruthless business tycoon proposes a merger - between God and Mammon.

28. So Many Children

Air Date: 1962-04-15

29. Brian Rix Presents #15: A Clear Case

Air Date: 1962-04-22

30. Loyalties

Air Date: 1962-04-29

31. To Whom It May Concern

Air Date: 1962-05-06

32. The Long Memory

Air Date: 1962-05-13

An embittered man is released from prison, anxious for revenge on those who really perpetrated the crime for which he was convicted.

33. Value for Money

Air Date: 1962-05-20

A self-made Northerner of limited sophistication finds London life a little hectic.

34. A Child in the House

Air Date: 1962-05-27

With her mother in hospital and her father mysteriously away, Elisabeth is sent to an unknown uncle and aunt in Belfast. The play deals with the conflict aroused in the child's conscience when she is placed in unfamiliar surroundings.

35. The Money Machine

Air Date: 1962-06-03

Alastair Moncrieff designs a banknote counter and he takes it to Olagem Ltd. Director John Lock realises that the counter can make a fortune, and determines that the fortune shall go to Olagem.

36. Worm's Eye View

Air Date: 1962-06-10

37. Undercover Cat

Air Date: 1962-06-17

38. Member of the Family

Air Date: 1962-06-24

Edwin Carrington has remarried. His staid English family is surprised by his new wife.

39. Young Timothy

Air Date: 1962-07-01

40. The Man Who Opted Out

Air Date: 1962-07-08

41. Up a Gum Tree

Air Date: 1962-07-15

Eccentric goings-on in a far-flung tropical colony.

42. The Day Before Atlanta

Air Date: 1962-07-22

43. Sword of Vengeance

Air Date: 1962-07-29

44. Dial M for Murder

Air Date: 1962-08-05

A London businessman concocts an intricate plan to murder his unfaithful wife for her money.

45. The Pretender

Air Date: 1962-08-12

When her throne is threatened by a "pretender" based in Venice, Catherine the Great sends Count Orloff to deal with the problem.

46. The Mortimer Touch

Air Date: 1962-08-19

47. Dackson's Wharf

Air Date: 1962-08-26

48. Hedgehog

Air Date: 1962-09-02

49. What's in It for Walter

Air Date: 1962-09-09

50. Six Men of Dorset

Air Date: 1962-09-16

The story of the Tolpuddle Martyrs, nineteenth-century labourers who formed a union and were transported to Australia.

51. Charlie Was My Darling

Air Date: 1962-09-23

1. The Square Peg

Air Date: 1962-09-30

2. The Stepfather

Air Date: 1962-10-07

3. The Slip

Air Date: 1962-10-14

4. A Suitable Case for Treatment

Air Date: 1962-10-21

Heavy-drinking Marxist writer Morgan Delt must hold on to his sanity whilst trying to resolve his marital problems.

5. The Big Eat

Air Date: 1962-10-28

An eating contest is staged for a new TV show - with fatal results.

6. Ruth

Air Date: 1962-11-11

7. The Aspern Papers

Air Date: 1962-11-18

A publisher insinuates himself into the mouldering mansion of the centenarian lover of a renowned but long-dead poet in order to find his lost love letter.

8. Libel on a Liar

Air Date: 1962-11-25

9. The Sudden Silence

Air Date: 1962-12-02

10. Behind the Line

Air Date: 1962-12-09

11. Something to Hide

Air Date: 1962-12-16

12. The Canterville Ghost

Air Date: 1962-12-23

The ghost of Sir Simon De Canterville has terrified visitors to his family home for centuries - but when a family of Americans rent the place, he's the one who's terrified.

13. Parkin's Primitives

Air Date: 1962-12-30

14. The Remarkable Incident at Carson Corners

Air Date: 1963-01-06

15. The Madhouse on Castle Street

Air Date: 1963-01-13

A man mysteriously locks himself in a room in a boarding house leaving only a note saying he has decided to "retire from the world". His worried sister and the other boarders then try to discover why.

16. Freya of the Seven Isles

Air Date: 1963-01-20

17. House on Three Floors

Air Date: 1963-01-27

18. The Reward of Silence

Air Date: 1963-02-03

19. The Bergonzi Hand

Air Date: 1963-02-10

20. The Fall of Mendel Krick

Air Date: 1963-02-17

21. The Prisoner

Air Date: 1963-02-24

Not to be confused with the 1967 TV series of the same name (also starring Patrick McGoohan), this adaptation of Bridget Boland's 1954 stage play depicts the conflict between a Cardinal (allegedly inspired by real-life Hungarian Cardinal Mindszenty) in an unnamed totalitarian state and the Interrogator who tries to force him into a public abjure of his religious convictions.

22. June Fall

Air Date: 1963-03-03

Two lonely, unbeautiful people are brought together by a dating agency, and, against all odds, find love.

23. Continuity Man

Air Date: 1963-03-10

Don and Roz, a very trendy couple, are expecting a Hollywood film actress as their dinner guest, but find they also have to look after Don's very eccentric and contrary father.

24. For Tea on Sunday

Air Date: 1963-03-17

Three girls sharing living accommodation invite their boyfriends for tea on Sunday. One of the young men arrives carrying an ax over his shoulder.

25. Too Late for Mashed Potato

Air Date: 1963-03-24

26. The Big Donkey

Air Date: 1963-03-31

27. Just You Wait

Air Date: 1963-04-07

28. The Holly Road Rig

Air Date: 1963-04-14

29. A Little Bit of Gold Said 'Jump'

Air Date: 1963-04-21

30. A Deadly Hush

Air Date: 1963-04-28

31. A Right Crusader

Air Date: 1963-05-05

32. I'm Not Stopping

Air Date: 1963-05-12

33. The Fly Sham

Air Date: 1963-05-19

34. How to Get Rid of Your Wife

Air Date: 1963-05-26

Mild-mannered and unassuming, Gerald Swinney has had enough of his nagging, domineering wife. So he resolves, not to kill her, but simply to "get rid" of her.

35. So Long Charlie

Air Date: 1963-06-02

36. Trial Run

Air Date: 1963-06-09

37. The Full Chatter

Air Date: 1963-06-16

An eccentric teacher dreams of finding fame as a novelist; but everything in his life seems to conspire against him.

38. Dial Rix #7: Skin Deep

Air Date: 1963-06-23

39. She's a Free Country

Air Date: 1963-06-30

40. You Can't Throw Your Mates

Air Date: 1963-07-07

41. Take the Plunge

Air Date: 1963-07-14

Douglas has fallen in love with an American girl and is perturbed to find, at the same time, that he really must get a job at last.

42. The Shadow of Mart

Air Date: 1963-07-21

About the foolish and lost Gabriel who lives entirely in the shadow of his brother, the brave soldier Mart who died in the war and is continuously immortalised by the dominant mother.

43. The Joker

Air Date: 1963-07-28

44. The Sponge Room

Air Date: 1963-08-04

45. Night Express

Air Date: 1963-08-11

46. Pig in the Middle

Air Date: 1963-08-18

47. The Greevey Column

Air Date: 1963-08-25

48. Plain Jane

Air Date: 1963-09-01

49. Two by the Sea #1: See the Pretty Lights

Air Date: 1963-09-08

50. Two by the Sea #2: Wedding Bells