title: Armchair Theatre

Specials

title: Three on a Gas Ring

overview:
Producer: Sydney Newman.

Written by David Osborn.

Starring:

Joanna Dunham, Alan Bates, Sheila Allen.

A young single girl finds herself pregnant. The play proved to be controversial and was not transmitted on grounds of decency because the girl showed no remorse about the condition she found herself in.

title: Three on a Gas Ring

title: The Outsider

title: The Outsider

character: Lalage

character: Sturdee

character: Ladd

character: Madame Klost

character: Tollemache

character: Ragatzy

title: The Handshake / Bid for Fame

title: The Handshake / Bid for Fame

character: Cast Member

character: Joe Mawson

character: Agnes Mawson

title: Tears in the Wind

title: Tears in the Wind

character: Claire

character: Etienne

character: Amélie

character: John

title: Flash Point

title: Flash Point

character: Major Driscoll

character: Professor King

character: Copeland

title: Black Limelight

title: Black Limelight

character: Jemima

character: Laurence Manfred

character: Mary Charrington

title: The Hollow Crown

title: The Hollow Crown

character: Count Janek

character: Queen Helga

character: Queen Marya the Queen Mother

title: It's an Ill Wind

title: It's an Ill Wind

character: Bert Taylor

character: Gloria

character: Simpson

character: Ronald Dukes

character: Tom Hanrahan

character: Third Journalist

title: The Mother

overview: After a five month trudge through Poland the Kosky family have reached an Austrian labour camp. Their hopes to emigrate to Canada take a desperate turn when Mrs Kosky is diagnosed with tuberculosis.

title: The Mother

title: The Old Lady Shows Her Medals

title: The Old Lady Shows Her Medals

title: The Common Man

title: The Common Man

title: The Right Thing

overview: When someone is killed in a road accident, Bob Slater wants to "do the right thing". But will he?

title: The Right Thing

title: The Face of a Stranger

title: The Face of a Stranger

title: The Same Sky

overview: The theme of Romeo and Juliet reworked in an orthodox Jewish household where Jeff who is a Christian falls in love with Juliet. Both families bitterly oppose the relationship. The story is set in wartime, in the East End of London.

title: The Same Sky

title: Three O'Clock Deadline

title: Three O'Clock Deadline

title: The Great Healer

title: The Great Healer

title: Miss Julie

overview: Late 19th century. The young miss Julie lives in a mansion with her father. She has recently broken her engagement but is attracted to one of the servants, Jean. They spend the midsummer night together, telling each other their memories and of their dreams. Realizing that an affair between a man of the people and an aristocrat is impossible, they plan to escape to Switzerland.

title: Miss Julie

title: Ring Out the Old

title: Ring Out the Old

title: Michael and Mary

title: Michael and Mary

title: The Necklace

overview: Mrs. Kendrick borrows a jeweled necklace from a friend for an important social event. Afterwards it is stolen, and Mrs. Kendrick goes into debt to duplicate it. The thief discovers it's costume jewelry, but Mrs. Kendrick never learns the truth, and struggles for years to pay off the huge debt.

title: The Necklace

title: The Last Flight

title: The Last Flight

title: Quay South

title: Quay South

title: If This Be Treason

title: If This Be Treason

title: The King of Iceland

overview: There are odd goings-on in the Turkish baths. Is the distinguished stranger among the Colonel Blimps really the "King of Iceland"?

title: The King of Iceland

title: The Witness

title: The Witness

title: This Was a Woman

overview: Olivia Russell is outwardly a devoted wife and mother, the kind mistress of a happy home, and a sympathetic friend. But this suburban respectability conceals a sinister aspect of the feminine.

title: This Was a Woman

title: The Cask of Amontillado

overview: Deep beneath the streets of Italy lie the catacombs of the Montresors, filled with barrels of wine and the bones of the dead. One evening, friends Fortunado and Montresor venture below the city with promises of the rare vintage wine Amontillado and find themselves in a web of betrayal and revenge that changes their friendship forever. Based on the short story by Edgar Allan Poe.

title: The Cask of Amontillado

title: Catch a Falling Star

overview: What future is there for a forgotten star of the New York theatre?

title: Catch a Falling Star

title: Hilda Morgan

title: Hilda Morgan

title: The Constant Stranger

title: The Constant Stranger

title: Autumn

title: Autumn

title: The Heiress

overview: A young naive woman falls for a handsome young man who her emotionally abusive father suspects is a fortune hunter.

title: The Heiress

title: Rappaport Always Pays

title: Rappaport Always Pays

title: Possession

title: Possession

title: The Old Ladies

title: The Old Ladies

title: Dear Murderer

title: Dear Murderer

title: Escape To Happiness

overview: A famous (married) concert pianist falls in love with a young music student.

title: Escape To Happiness

title: Start from Scratch

title: Start from Scratch

title: It Pays to Advertise

overview: The son of a rich soap manufacturer gets himself in predicaments trying to prove to his father that he's responsible enough for marriage.

title: It Pays to Advertise

title: The Whiteheaded Boy

title: The Whiteheaded Boy

title: While Parents Sleep

title: While Parents Sleep

title: Bed, Board and Romance

title: Bed, Board and Romance

title: The Women Have Their Way

title: The Women Have Their Way

title: Season 1

Season 2

title: Off the Deep End

title: Off the Deep End

title: Now Let Him Go

overview: A world-class painter is taken ill and lies in the bedroom of an inn while people down below squabble over his paintings and inheritance. The wily old man is unperturbed, even regarding the infernal trumpet sound that plays throughout.

title: Now Let Him Go

title: Ghosts

overview: A young student idealizes the lives of the inhabitants of a stylish apartment building in Stockholm only to find that it is a nest of betrayal and sickness.

title: Ghosts

title: Policy for Love

title: Policy for Love

title: The Pier

title: The Pier

title: Inch from the Heart

title: Inch from the Heart

title: Trial By Candlelight

overview: Never Broadcast on this date. It was rescheduled to become episode 41.

title: Trial By Candlelight

title: Ann Veronica

title: Ann Veronica

title: The Last Mile

overview: Mears, a convicted killer, is determined not to walk that "last mile" - to his execution.

title: The Last Mile

title: The Great City

title: The Great City

title: Man in a Moon

overview: A convicted murderer is chosen by an obscure country with limited funds as their candidate to be the first man on the moon. Their reasoning being that they might be able to land him there.. but may not be able to bring him back?.

title: Man in a Moon

title: The Human Touch

overview: A doctor pioneers the use of chloroform as an anesthetic during operations, but meets with huge resistance from established medical figures.

title: The Human Touch

title: Sister

title: Sister

title: The Mortimer Touch

title: The Mortimer Touch

title: The Dividing Line

title: The Dividing Line

title: Panther 140

title: Panther 140

title: The Shining Hour

overview: A nightclub dancer marries into society and has to contend with her jealous sister-in-law.

title: The Shining Hour

title: Man in the Corner

title: Man in the Corner

title: The Master Builder

overview: A successful, ego-maniacal architect who has spent a lifetime bullying his wife, employees and mistresses wants to make peace as his life approaches its final act.

title: The Master Builder

title: Tragedy in a Temporary Town

title: Tragedy in a Temporary Town

title: Night of the Ding-Dong

title: Night of the Ding-Dong

title: The Five Dollar Bill

overview: An American couple discover that their 17-year-old son Ralph has stolen a few dollars of housekeeping money.

title: The Five Dollar Bill

title: The Lady of Camellias

overview: A naive young man falls in love with a beautiful, dying courtesan.

title: The Lady of Camellias

title: A Gust of Wind

title: A Gust of Wind

title: Murder Story

overview: Last fortnight in the life of a youth who was sentenced to death for the killing of a police constable.

title: Murder Story

title: Vendetta

title: Vendetta

title: The One Who Came Back

overview: An ex-Luftwaffe pilot is sent to work in the English village where he was captured during the war. What will happen if the villagers recognise him?

title: The One Who Came Back

title: A Man's Woman

title: A Man's Woman

title: The Emperor Jones

overview: Unscrupulously ambitious Brutus Jones escapes from jail after killing a guard and through bluff and bravado finds himself the emperor of a Caribbean island.

title: The Emperor Jones

title: Miss Olive

title: Miss Olive

title: Wolf Pack

title: Wolf Pack

title: The Rat Wife

overview: A writer is trapped in a loveless, unfulfilled marriage to a wealthy woman. The death of their disabled son wreaks havoc on their relationship as they struggle to find redemption for their personal failures.

title: The Rat Wife

title: Fifty Fifty

title: Fifty Fifty

title: Breach of Marriage

title: Breach of Marriage

title: Hanging Judge

overview: A judge notorious for his severity becomes implicated in a murder case and learns a lesson in humanity.

title: Hanging Judge

title: Paid in Full

overview: The rescue of a boy trapped for eighteen hours down a well and the subsequent after effects of those involved in his plight.

title: Paid in Full

title: Death of Satan

title: Death of Satan

title: The Widower

overview: Paris in spring and a lonely widower Paul Marley leaves a pearls necklace at the table of a young woman. She returns them but agrees to take a room in his home unaware that his secretary is her former boyfriend Gilbert.

title: The Widower

title: No Flags for Geebang

overview: In a pub in the small Australian bush town of Geebang the locals look forward to an unexpected visit by the Queen.

title: No Flags for Geebang

title: Homecoming

overview: Charles Preston, who is running his dead brother's business, increasingly becomes the suspect in a murder investigation.

title: Homecoming

title: Trial by Candlelight

overview: In Tangiers, a sensitive girl commits suicide. Or was it murder?

title: Trial by Candlelight

title: The House of Bernarda Alba

overview: A domineering, reclusive, and ostentatiously pious widow in a small Spanish town keeps such close watch on her daughters that they are unable to have normal social lives. However, the eldest is allowed to become engaged to an unprincipled young man, primarily for the financial advantages it will bring the mother, Bernarda. Jealousy and envy ensue among the other daughters.

title: The House of Bernarda Alba

title: Wings of the Wind

title: Wings of the Wind

title: Noon on Doomsday

overview: After a racist murder, a judge confronts an entire community over its role in the crime.

title: Noon on Doomsday

title: The Sins of Simone

title: The Sins of Simone

title: The Woman in Question

title: The Woman in Question

title: The Travelling Lady

overview: Georgette Thomas struggles to keep her family together, but her husband will keep getting into trouble with the law.

title: The Travelling Lady

title: Season 2

Season 3

title: The Pillars of Midnight

overview: A smallpox outbreak hits an English city.

title: The Pillars of Midnight

title: The Web of Lace

title: The Web of Lace

title: The Franchise Affair

overview: An elderly woman and her spinster niece are accused of kidnapping.

title: The Franchise Affair

title: Murder in Slow Motion

overview: Racing driver Raymond Sibley faces dangers both on and off the track as he competes in the famous Le Mans twenty-four hour race.

title: Murder in Slow Motion

title: I Can Destroy the Sun

overview: Senior officials in the British, American and Russian governments all receive the same cryptic and unsigned message - "I Can Destroy The Sun". What can it mean?

title: I Can Destroy the Sun

title: Time of Your Life

overview: This is a performance of the play "The Time of Your Life" that was telecast on British television.

title: Time of Your Life

title: The Terrorist

title: The Terrorist

title: The Witching Hour

overview: Jack Brookfield, a gambler with clairvoyant and hypnotic powers, is able to win at cards through his unique gift. But when he inadvertently hypnotizes young Clay Thorne, the youth kills an enemy of Brookfield's while under the trance. No one believes Brookfield's protestations that Thorne is innocent of any murderous intent, so Brookfield teams up with retired lawyer Martin Prentice in hopes of saving the young man from the gallows.

title: The Witching Hour

title: The Greatest Man in the World

overview: Just after a young unknown American becomes the first on the Moon returns, he dies in an accident. He's laid to rest with full honours, but only the president and a few high officials know just what sort of a man their hero was.

title: The Greatest Man in the World

title: Please Murder Me

overview: A black comedy in which Mr Potz, a rich man who longs to die, hires his own assassin. He chooses Miss Higgins, an eccentric author of detective fiction, to carry out the grim task.

title: Please Murder Me

title: The Boy with Meat Axe

title: The Boy with Meat Axe

title: Underground

title: Underground

title: The Report on Jessie Dean

overview: A bereaved mother, Jessie Dean, steals a baby belonging to a mother who had wanted her child adopted.

title: The Report on Jessie Dean

title: Dangerous World

overview: A new magistrate takes up a post in a British colony in Africa aiming to uphold justice against corruption.

title: Dangerous World

title: The Deaf Heart

title: The Deaf Heart

title: The Criminals

overview: A small construction company's new year's eve party is taken over by a crook who has intricate knowledge of the men's private lives, forcing them into an incredible bank robbery plot.

title: The Criminals

title: The Sentry

overview: An American Civil War drama in which Meade, a Confederate soldier, faces the dilemma of knowing that his brother, who is fighting on the other side, has been left to die in the course of an act of sabotage.

title: The Sentry

title: The Break

title: The Break

title: Soundings

overview: A lonely doctor with a mysterious past shies away from operating on a friendly Scottish giant aboard a storm-tossed Antarctic whaler.

title: Soundings

title: Love and Money

overview: The marriage of a woman from a humble background to a rich Northern mill owner and her growing resentment at what she regards as the condescending nature of him and his family.

title: Love and Money

title: Hot Summer Night

overview: Jack Palmer, a strong union man, is forced to confront his principles when his daughter wants to marry a black man.

title: Hot Summer Night

title: Ernie Barger Is 50

overview: Ernie Barger, a senior partner in a pottery firm, initially celebrates his son's graduation but soon learns that not only is he twenty years behind the times but could also be responsible for his wife's illness.

title: Ernie Barger Is 50

title: The Thug

overview: The relationship between Lewis, a young tearaway, and Charlotte, a shy girl who works in a record shop with her sick father.

title: The Thug

title: To Ride a Tiger

overview: A cabal in an unnamed South American country pulls a coup by choosing a popular dissident as dictator. His well meant reforms are not well received, and as his marriage fails, he shows the people what a real dictator is capable of.

title: To Ride a Tiger

title: The Fabulous Money Maker

overview: A drama based on the life of Ivar Kreugar, a Swedish financier who built up a monopoly in the match industry during the 1920s.

title: The Fabulous Money Maker

title: The Bird, the Bear and the Actress

overview: A group discover a famous designer and their entrepreneur sees this as a chance to have his name associated with their new production. The leading lady is outraged at the way they intend to exploit the old man.

title: The Bird, the Bear and the Actress

title: No Gun, No Guilt

overview: A courtroom drama in which a young American lawyer is accused of concealing material evidence in a murder case.

title: No Gun, No Guilt

title: Strange Meeting

overview: An Italian set suspense drama in which Bruno, a visiting American criminal is introduced to Grazia, an Italian woman whose motives are mysterious by a strange cloaked figure.

title: Strange Meeting

title: Star in the Summer Night

overview: International singing star Adeline Girard is all but forgotten, then she meets a young couple who do not want to get married.

title: Star in the Summer Night

title: The Angry Flower

title: The Angry Flower

title: The Trouble with Benny

title: The Trouble with Benny

title: Parole

overview: The life of a young convict released on parole and torn between the needs of his family and his former criminal associates.

title: Parole

title: The Shadow of the Ruthless

title: The Shadow of the Ruthless

title: Hand in Glove

title: Hand in Glove

title: Till Death Do Us Part

title: Till Death Do Us Part

title: The Big Client

overview: A satire set in the advertising industry.

title: The Big Client

title: The Girl on the Beach

overview: A girl who has lost her memory discovers that she is rich - a fact resented by others.

title: The Girl on the Beach

title: Wedding Day

title: Wedding Day

title: My Guess Would Be Murder

title: My Guess Would Be Murder

title: The Devil's Instrument

title: The Devil's Instrument

title: The Model Marriage

title: The Model Marriage

title: Guest Appearance

title: Guest Appearance

title: My Lost Saints

title: My Lost Saints

title: If You Loved Me

title: If You Loved Me

title: The Grandma Bandit

title: The Grandma Bandit

title: A House of His Own

title: A House of His Own

title: The Garden Party

title: The Garden Party

title: Lysette

title: Lysette

title: You'll Never See Me Again

overview: Jim Mason's wife Molly vanishes after purportedly leaving to visit her parents. When Jim calls the in-laws he has never met, he discovers she never arrived. As the mystery deepens, the police suspect Jim of a sinister crime.

title: You'll Never See Me Again

title: Black Laughter/Double Exit

title: Black Laughter/Double Exit

title: Invitation to Murder

title: Invitation to Murder

title: Young David

overview: A gentle orphan discovers life and love in an indifferent adult world.

title: Young David

title: Season 3

Season 4

title: The Scent of Fear

overview: Aboard a BOAC plane departing an unnamed Iron Curtain country, a stowaway has convinced a flight attendant to conceal him so he can defect on arrival in London. However, a high-ranking secret police officer posing as a passenger informs her that the man she's protecting is not wanted for his politics; actually, he is a murderer.

title: The Scent of Fear

title: After the Show

overview: Young Victor Liebig returns from the theatre with his eccentric Aunt, when he receives a call summoning them to the flat of his Uncle's suicidal mistress.She's a young, bohemian type and Victor is smitten. She leads him on and he takes her out, but after meeting her friends, realises she's not for him.

title: After the Show

title: Worm in the Bud

title: Worm in the Bud

title: Light from a Star

title: Light from a Star

title: The Thought of Tomorrow

title: The Thought of Tomorrow

title: No Trams to Lime Street

title: No Trams to Lime Street

title: A Trick of the Sun

title: A Trick of the Sun

title: A Shilling for the Evil Day

title: A Shilling for the Evil Day

title: Small Fish Are Sweet

title: Small Fish Are Sweet

title: The Last of the Brave

title: The Last of the Brave

title: Suspicious Mind

title: Suspicious Mind

title: The Rebel and the Soldier

title: The Rebel and the Soldier

title: Dr Kabil

title: Dr Kabil

title: Roast Goose and Walnut Stuffing

title: Roast Goose and Walnut Stuffing

title: The Golden Horn

title: The Golden Horn

title: The Last Tycoon

title: The Last Tycoon

title: Lord Arthur Savile's Crime

title: Lord Arthur Savile's Crime

title: Where I Live

title: Where I Live

title: Misfire

title: Misfire

title: Fifth Floor People

title: Fifth Floor People

title: Cold Fury

title: Cold Fury

title: Night Panic

title: Night Panic

title: Come in Razor Red

title: Come in Razor Red

title: Guardian Angel

title: Guardian Angel

title: Pink String and Sealing Wax

title: Pink String and Sealing Wax

title: China Doll

title: China Doll

title: Some Talk of Alexander

title: Some Talk of Alexander

title: The Girl in the Market Square

title: The Girl in the Market Square

title: Roman Gesture

title: Roman Gesture

title: After the Funeral

title: After the Funeral

title: The Leather Jungle

title: The Leather Jungle

title: Hold My Hand, Soldier

title: Hold My Hand, Soldier

title: A Night Out

title: A Night Out

title: A Phone Call for Matthew Quade

title: A Phone Call for Matthew Quade

title: The Innocent

title: The Innocent

title: Nest of Four

title: Nest of Four

title: On the Spot

title: On the Spot

title: Night Stop

overview: Eddy, a young Midlands bargee, investigates the so-called accidental drowning death of a lifelong friend.

title: Night Stop

title: The Irish Boys

title: The Irish Boys

title: A Kind of Kingdom

title: A Kind of Kingdom

title: Season 4

Season 5

title: Big Brain Man

overview: 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.

title: Big Brain Man

title: A Heart and a Diamond

title: A Heart and a Diamond

title: Lena, O My Lena

overview: 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.

title: Lena, O My Lena

title: Pig's Ear with Flowers

title: Pig's Ear with Flowers

title: Thunder on the Snowy

title: Thunder on the Snowy

title: The Siege at Killyfaddy

title: The Siege at Killyfaddy

title: I'll Have You to Remember

overview: A retired couple with many unresolved old scores to settle, argue and bicker while their world decays around them.

title: I'll Have You to Remember

title: My Representative

overview: Ambition takes hold of fashion-house salesman Ronnie Page as he forgets those closest to him in his desire for a successful career.

title: My Representative

title: The Cake Baker

title: The Cake Baker

title: Hail the Conquering Hero

title: Hail the Conquering Hero

title: The Stranger

title: The Stranger

title: Mr Nobody

title: Mr Nobody

title: Clip Joint People

title: Clip Joint People

title: The Cupboard

overview: When Fred Watson's wife and landlady disappear, and he is seen papering over two cupboards in his bedroom, the police are called in.

title: The Cupboard

title: Rain

overview: A prostitute finds redemption in Pago Pago thanks to a hard missionary man.

title: Rain

title: The Great Gold Bullion Robbery

overview: Robbery from a moving train? Impossible.

title: The Great Gold Bullion Robbery

title: A Head Full of Crocodiles

title: A Head Full of Crocodiles

title: Till the Day I Die

title: Till the Day I Die

title: The Mystery of Martin Wheeler

title: The Mystery of Martin Wheeler

title: The Picture of Dorian Gray

overview: A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all.

title: The Picture of Dorian Gray

title: Honeymoon Postponed

overview: Lancashire newlyweds Violet and Arthur Fitton are forced to postpone their honeymoon and move in temporarily with his parents.

title: Honeymoon Postponed

title: A Degree of Murder

overview: A man and his wife plan to murder his eccentric wealthy sister.

title: A Degree of Murder

title: Strangers in the Room

title: Strangers in the Room

title: The Money Makers

title: The Money Makers

title: Tune on an Apron-String

title: Tune on an Apron-String

title: The Big Deal

overview: 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.

title: The Big Deal

title: The Man Out There

overview: 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.

title: The Man Out There

title: The Conscientious Gauger

title: The Conscientious Gauger

title: The Way of Love

title: The Way of Love

title: The Hero

title: The Hero

title: Danger! Men Working

overview: 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.

title: Danger! Men Working

title: No Licence for Singing

title: No Licence for Singing

title: Flying High

title: Flying High

title: Man on a Mountain Top

overview: A writer who lives in carefully-protected seclusion does not welcome a young woman's intrusion into his life.

title: Man on a Mountain Top

title: Duel for Love

title: Duel for Love

title: The Ship That Couldn't Stop

overview: A ship powered by a nuclear reactor, is heading for the port of New York and is unable to slow down.

title: The Ship That Couldn't Stop

title: The Truth About Helen

title: The Truth About Helen

title: The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

overview: 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.

title: The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

title: The Typists

overview: We see two typists aging as they spend 40 years together in the same office.

title: The Typists

title: The Night of the Apes

overview: 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.

title: The Night of the Apes

Season 6

title: The Omega Mystery

overview: Butler and Robinson have to track down a saboteur at an atomic research station before it is too late.

title: The Omega Mystery

title: Looking For Frankie

title: Looking For Frankie

title: The Rose Affair

overview: A modern take on the old story of Beauty and the Beast.

title: The Rose Affair

title: His Polyvinyl Girl

overview: A department store closes for the night and instead of going home, the staff realize a musical fantasy amongst the store set pieces.

title: His Polyvinyl Girl

title: Roll On Bloomin' Death

overview: Its near the end of World War 2, and a young green officer takes over a war weary platoon, he is ordered to take some of them on a raid, but he cannot rouse any volunteers.

title: Roll On Bloomin' Death

title: The Trouble With Our Ivy

overview: A feud over rose-growing escalates to manic proportions when one neighbour acquires a fast-growing creeper

title: The Trouble With Our Ivy

title: Murder Club

overview: In the year 2110, Stanley Frelaine is urged by his boss to improve his social connections by taking up hunting.

title: Murder Club

title: Tune On An Old Tax Fiddle

overview: When the inland revenue gets an angry mistress's letter exposing a man named Toby as a tax cheat, they quietly put pressure on him. Toby panics, and hires an unscrupulous lawyer named Elvin, but he has a hard time taking his advice.

title: Tune On An Old Tax Fiddle

title: The Rank and File

overview: An observation on corruption in a US Trade Union.Follows the life of factory worker Bill Kilcoyne from the depressed 1930s to his present day (1959) standing in front of a Senate Committee as a trade union leader.

title: The Rank and File

title: Night Conspirators

overview: An elderly man is rescued from Iceland. Why would an elderly man need to escape from Iceland? Unless of course its Adolf Hitler.

title: Night Conspirators

title: Girl In A Birdcage

title: Girl In A Birdcage

title: Night Stop

title: Night Stop

title: The Irish Boys

title: The Irish Boys

title: Dumb Martian

overview: On Mars, Withers a gruff, bigoted pioneer buys himself a Martian wife for company. Like all her race, Lellie cannot speak and Withers treats her like a slave. But he becomes jealous when Weaver, a young scientist, lodges at his camp and treats Lellie sympathetically.

title: Dumb Martian

title: The Hard Knock

overview: A short tempered Irishman returns home after his brother was hanged for murder during a robbery. Though at first determined he was actually innocent, family and friends slowly convince him otherwise.

title: The Hard Knock

title: North City Traffic Straight Ahead

title: North City Traffic Straight Ahead

title: The Fishing Match

overview: Peter drives his uncle and his friends to the countryside to take part in a fishing match. Meeting Kath he tells her stories of his father's travels but discovers a picture of him taken in Skegness and knows he's living a lie.

title: The Fishing Match

title: Season 6

Season 7

title: Nothing To Pay

overview: Supporters leave their village for the first time and visit the city to see an away match.

title: Nothing To Pay

title: The Sin Shifter

overview: Fisherman Manny Barnes comes into conflict with the local clergy as he tries to halt the decline in his fishing town by turning it into a gambling spot.

title: The Sin Shifter

title: Afternoon of a Nymph

overview: An agent invites his young starlet to a party so she can meet all the right people and have a chance to move on from the commercials she has been doing, to bigger roles and possible stardom. However while she is there, she realizes that there is a price to pay.

title: Afternoon of a Nymph

title: Dead Letter

overview: Relatives gathered for a funeral tea get unexpected news.

title: Dead Letter

title: Always Something Hot

title: Always Something Hot

title: Thank You and Goodnight

overview: A rather intellectual young woman who has just broken off an affair with a married man meets a rather uncouth pop singer on a train journey.

title: Thank You and Goodnight

title: The Big Ride

title: The Big Ride

title: Joker

title: Joker

title: Hear The Tiger, See The Bay

title: Hear The Tiger, See The Bay

title: Blue and White

title: Blue and White

title: The Hot Potato Boys

title: The Hot Potato Boys

title: Into The Dark

title: Into The Dark

title: The Paradise Suite

overview: After a London premiere, a psychologically troubled Hollywood starlet in a luxury hotel suite meets several men, including a critic, an agent, a bell hop and a photographer, desperately seeking understanding.

title: The Paradise Suite

title: The Cruel Kind

overview: Arnold, a soldier who has deserted after a traumatic event on the Berlin Wall, is drowning his sorrows in a pub. A Spanish boy who can speak little English enters the pub begging for help against a lynch mob chasing him, accusing him of molesting the daughter of a local businessman. After recent events, Arnold wants no involvement, but Cissy persuades him otherwise.

title: The Cruel Kind

title: The Invasion

overview: Inhabitants in a remote village laughs off and dismiss a couple of schoolboys' claims that they are being invaded by aliens.

title: The Invasion

title: Power and Glory

title: Power and Glory

title: Wagger

title: Wagger

title: Jungle Juice

title: Jungle Juice

title: The Wednesday Caller

title: The Wednesday Caller

title: The Monkey and the Mohawk

title: The Monkey and the Mohawk

title: The Pushover

title: The Pushover

title: Late Summer

overview: Helga and David travel to a secluded hotel for some alone time. Helga is much older than David and tongues wag among the other guests. The more time they are together. the more their age difference becomes a rift between them.

title: Late Summer

title: A Little Night Music

title: A Little Night Music

title: The Snag

overview: When developer John Goggin plans to build a civic centre, only Emma Mannering's corset shoppe stands in the way, and she refuses to sell, so he sends his unscrupulous assistant Ed Crayshaw to "fix" things, but instead he's double crossed.

title: The Snag

title: Living Image

overview: A renowned artist of the old school has his whole world turned upside down, when his son, a young radical and his associates brings modern interpretations of art into his life.

title: Living Image

Season 8

title: A Kind of Kingdom

title: A Kind of Kingdom

title: The Front Room

overview: A marriage is threatened by a wife's obsession with cleaning.

title: The Front Room

title: Mr. Big

overview: Mr. Bigelow is a dwarf who works for a carnival. Each night after the customers have gone, he visits the Mirror Maze, where he stands before one mirror in particular, one that magnifies his image many, many times.

title: Mr. Big

title: Little Doris

title: Little Doris

title: The Chocolate Tree

overview: As independence for Africa draws near, a wealthy British trading family welcomes a future president of one country into their home, in an uneasy conversation that is tinged by condescension and racism, grudges and militant anger.

title: The Chocolate Tree

title: Long Past Glory

overview: Two aging, shabby men inhabit a decaying sewer pumping station. They live by stealing things, including beds, a piano and a gramophone.They're joined by a younger man who disrupts their dreary small talk with angry, upsetting arguments.

title: Long Past Glory

title: The Higher They Fly

overview: Test pilot Fleming's jet develops an undercarriage problem on a passenger flight, necessitating in-flight repairs -- and Fleming is on the ground.

title: The Higher They Fly

title: The Swindler

overview: Teacher Alec Waterman is released from jail after a sentence for fraud. Dick Sothers gets him a job with Lucas Builders but when Alec starts to make new friends he becomes trapped between his old life and his new life.

title: The Swindler

title: A Way of Living

title: A Way of Living

title: Sharp at Four

overview: Jean Hobley has a problem, trying to hold down a job that allows her to pick up her child from school.

title: Sharp at Four

title: Last Word on Julie

overview: Beautiful 23-year-old Julie Lister has left home to enjoy the single life. Reckless with money her love life is a disaster but when friends and family receive letters they fear she may have committed suicide.

title: Last Word on Julie

title: The Pretty English Girls

title: The Pretty English Girls

title: Realm of Error

title: Realm of Error

title: Always Ask for the Best

overview: An eternal triangle develops amongst shop keepers in shopping parade when an attractive young woman moves in.

title: Always Ask for the Best

title: Mug's Game

title: Mug's Game

title: Prisoner and Escort

title: Prisoner and Escort

title: Cradle Song

title: Cradle Song

title: A Nice Little Business

title: A Nice Little Business

title: Pleasure Where She Finds It

title: Pleasure Where She Finds It

title: A Jug of Bread

title: A Jug of Bread

title: St. Ernie Leatherbound

overview: A reformed alcoholic businessman wants to prove that his newfound religion works by letting an alcoholic tramp stay in his house and be subject to his preaching. He ignores the protests of his wife and son.

title: St. Ernie Leatherbound

title: That's Where the Town's Going

title: That's Where the Town's Going

title: Exit Joe - Running

title: Exit Joe - Running

title: A Certain Kind of Silence

title: A Certain Kind of Silence

Season 9

title: The Trial of Doctor Fancy

overview: A Harley Street doctor is charged following the death of a patient. The court case exposes a series of bizarre operations.

title: The Trial of Doctor Fancy

title: The Cherry on the Top

overview: University educated Audrey Inskip is tired of life in the RAF and particularly the constant attention of her senior office. During an afternoon in a pub she become intrigued by Bill Hemmings, a failed salesman who supplies toppings.

title: The Cherry on the Top

title: Something To Declare

title: Something To Declare

title: Old Soldiers

title: Old Soldiers

title: They Throw It At You

title: They Throw It At You

title: The Importance of Being Ernest

overview: In 1890s London, two friends use the same pseudonym ("Ernest") for their on-the-sly activities. Hilarity ensues.

title: The Importance of Being Ernest

title: The Girl in the Picture

title: The Girl in the Picture

title: Sally

overview: Charles Drummond thought he had it made, with an understanding wife and a talented artistic mistress.But when he asked his mistress to paint his mother he had not taken into account the sisterhood, and discovers his habits and foibles provide extensive conversation and much merriment amongst the women.

title: Sally

title: The Hothouse

overview: Harry H Corbett plays a tycoon husband Harry Fender, who has built up the supermarket business from the time he was a delivery boy in his teens - he's now over forty and obsessed with developing the exotic plants in his hothouse.

title: The Hothouse

title: I've Got a System

title: I've Got a System

title: The Gaming Book

overview: As an experiment, an army junior officer is allowed to join a club of high ranking aristocrat officers. He quickly finds himself out of his depth and humiliated.

title: The Gaming Book

title: Putty Metal

title: Putty Metal

title: The Lady with the Albatross

title: The Lady with the Albatross

title: The Vanishing Trick

title: The Vanishing Trick

title: Keys of the Cafe

overview: The romantic entanglements of a hairdresser, a driving instructor and a wife.

title: Keys of the Cafe

title: I Took My Little World Away

overview: Mandy is in a dark place on the brink of suicide, can Geoffrey persuade her otherwise?.

title: I Took My Little World Away

title: A Fearful Thing

title: A Fearful Thing

title: A Voice in the Sky

overview: After a calamitous space trip, an astronaut returns to Earth to say that he has spoken to God and God wants the world destroyed by a secret organization with nuclear weapons.

title: A Voice in the Sky

title: I Loved You Last Summer

overview: A spoof on Dumas's 'The Three Musketeers' as three Irish labourers take on Birmingham.

title: I Loved You Last Summer

title: The Man Who Came to Die

overview: Michael and Jo Richardson are celebrating their wedding anniversary at a secluded country cottage. Jo discovers the body of their friend Edward Fellowes in the bedroom and call Dr Clarkson but find his behaviour very strange.

title: The Man Who Came to Die

title: The Incident

title: The Incident

title: Season 9

Season 10

title: The Paraffin Season

title: The Paraffin Season

title: The Gong Game

overview: Once, long ago, Clive Breeze was a hero whose bravery won him a medal. Now, he's a middle-aged failure who's in big, big troub

title: The Gong Game

title: A Cold Peace

title: A Cold Peace

title: The Sweet War Man

title: The Sweet War Man

title: Ready for the Glory

overview: A marriage bureau pairs a three times married, alcoholic titled lady with an able seaman from the navy. On visiting her villa he finds it also occupied by an eccentric ex-husband, a daughter and another man she calls her 'companion'

title: Ready for the Glory

title: Neighbours

overview: The Robinson's like to see themselves as liberals. So when their new black neighbours the Kingsbury's move into their apartment block they are invited for drinks but things don't quite go as they imagined it would.

title: Neighbours

title: The Pity of it All

overview: Young miner's widow Nancy Harper works in a sweet shop to support her little daughter, who is killed when accidentally struck by the car driven by Walter Daymer. Nancy drifts into an affair with Walter, not suspecting that he is already married.

title: The Pity of it All

title: Man Without a Mortgage

title: Man Without a Mortgage

title: The Battersea Miracle

overview: Joey, a performer in Bancroft's circus, also keeps his own set of performing fleas. One day a flea speaks to him and persuades him to go public with a microphone. The flea's act is a great success, but not everybody is pleased with its message.

title: The Battersea Miracle

title: The Night Before the Morning After

overview: The night before the wedding, the Bride-to-be can't stop worrying about foolish doubts about her future husband, keeping her parents up all night. Meanwhile, the Groom is having second thoughts as his flatmate and a party girl distract him

title: The Night Before the Morning After

title: Don't Utter a Note

overview: Two well meaning spinsters plans in reforming an old jailbird, receive a set back, when unexpectedly into their possession comes a substantial amount of money, which was not made by the Royal Mint

title: Don't Utter a Note

title: Daughter of the House

title: Daughter of the House

title: The Walls Came Tumbling Down

title: The Walls Came Tumbling Down

title: The Match

title: The Match

title: Pretty Polly

overview: A girl's Cinderella existence crashes to an abrupt end when her wealthy, cantankerous aunt dies on a cruise ship.

title: Pretty Polly

title: The Wager

overview: During a general election a politician impedes his performance because he has placed a bet against himself winning.

title: The Wager

title: The One-Eyed Monster

title: The One-Eyed Monster

title: Great Big Blonde

overview: A barmaid returns home to Dublin, to find things are not quite what she expected to be.

title: Great Big Blonde

title: A Fair Swap

overview: Peter Baynes's business is doing well until he has a visitor from his past.

title: A Fair Swap

title: The Signal Box of Grandpa Hudson

overview: Wendy is reluctant to take her new boyfriend home, as there are certain aspects of her family that she is embarrassed about.

title: The Signal Box of Grandpa Hudson

title: The Noise Stopped

overview: A man is facing a crisis with his neurotic wife, dropout son and bullying, oily boss, who he must suffer while facing office personnel cutbacks. When his job and wife slip away,he finds some redemption in his son's plans for a new life.

title: The Noise Stopped

title: Dead Silence

overview: A Chief Inspector of Police is behaving rather erratically during a murder investigation.

title: Dead Silence

title: Barrett Keller: His Mark

title: Barrett Keller: His Mark

title: Light the Blue Touch Paper

overview: June Elliott is happily married with a small baby but when an old friend from college, Dennis Sage, asks for a reference she is visited and interrogated her about her past. June begins to put things together and fears Sage in a spy.

title: Light the Blue Touch Paper

title: The Tilted Screen

overview: The girls in his native Australia regard Morrie as a joke, but on a trip abroad he finds there is much more to life than his home town.

title: The Tilted Screen

title: The Three Barrelled Shotgun

overview: A grieving widow returns home from a holiday, to find her flat occupied by an amiable young man.

title: The Three Barrelled Shotgun

title: The Long Nightmare

overview: A chance meeting enables Arthur to confront his past.

title: The Long Nightmare

title: Season 10

Season 11

title: The Floating Population

overview: Nurse Marjorie and young tycoon Bernard play an unusual game of cards.

title: The Floating Population

title: A Magnum for Schneider

overview: The first adventure of David Callan, top agent for the S.I.S. Forcibly "retired" several years earlier because he had lost his nerve, Callan is called back into service to handle the assassination of Schneider, a German businessman who may be more than he seems. This could be Callan's last chance to prove he's still a worthy agent.

title: A Magnum for Schneider

title: What's Wrong with Humpty Dumpty

overview: Pompous film director David endures a boring existence with his wife Hilary, a children's-book author--and has a glamorous girlfriend, Caroline. When Hilary finds out about Caroline, she decides to befriend her, then update him.

title: What's Wrong with Humpty Dumpty

title: Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width

overview: Two partners in tailoring, one Catholic and the other Jewish, spend the time settling their differences.

title: Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width

title: Easier in the Dark

title: Easier in the Dark

title: Reason For Sale

overview: Ben Lewis works for an investment group looking buy the former home of Ferenc Davos. However Davos daughter Anna starts making strange claims that her step mother has murdered him and she knows where to body is buried.

title: Reason For Sale

title: The Happy Sacking

title: The Happy Sacking

title: The Exploding Azalea

title: The Exploding Azalea

title: Any Number Can Play

overview: Set in a future where the three-day working week is the norm, the play asks what human qualities will the games people play bring out--love or hate?

title: Any Number Can Play

title: A World of Time

overview: A young wife runs away to her sister, who discovers she has a serious problem with kleptomania which includes trying to steal her husband.

title: A World of Time

title: Call Me Daddy

overview: A lonely middle-aged businessman blackmails a typist into spending the weekend at his large house in the country. She expects the worst, but he concentrates on something she doesn't expect - making her fall in love with him.

title: Call Me Daddy

title: I Am Osango

title: I Am Osango

title: Will You Come a Little Closer

overview: A young woman is told to get a job meeting people to cure her shyness. However as a door to door representative nothing had prepared her for meeting the likes of John Dolby. Later remade for the Shadows of Fear series.

title: Will You Come a Little Closer

title: England My England

overview: Happily married Maggie's birthday starts off in the normal way with deliveries of presents and visitors, but by the end of the day her marriage is in trouble.

title: England My England

title: In The Name of the Law

overview: The safe with the takings from an all-night café seem easy picking for a trio of villains until some policemen and a gun become involved.

title: In The Name of the Law

title: Depart in Terror

overview: An electronics expert takes revenge on his wife's lover.

title: Depart in Terror

title: The Snares of Death

overview: When Harold's undertaking business in a small town is not doing well, he hits on an unusual solution to balance the books.

title: The Snares of Death

title: Compensation Alice

overview: Alice, married to a boring accountant, suddenly realises that she is no longer in step with the young person she once was. She becomes fascinated with the life of her Au Pair and starts hanging out with her and recaptures her youth.

title: Compensation Alice

title: A Slight Formality

title: A Slight Formality

title: Quite an Ordinary Knife

title: Quite an Ordinary Knife

title: Another Branch of the Family

overview: A loner, possibly autistic, is able to relate to the world through his pet monkey.

title: Another Branch of the Family

title: Love Life

title: Love Life

title: The Education of Corporal Halliday

title: The Education of Corporal Halliday

title: Nursery Tale

title: Nursery Tale

title: Marriage and Henry Sunday

overview: Handbag maker and shy bachelor Henry Sunday is enticed by his landlady and daughter into joining a computer dating agency.

title: Marriage and Henry Sunday

title: The Girl

overview: The Greens' peaceful existence is interrupted by Felicity, a teenage girl claiming to be Mr Green's illegitimate child. Her friends are also on the way as more unexpected visitors.

title: The Girl

title: Split Level

title: Split Level

title: Poor Cherry

overview: A politically-active couple's involvement in an election campaign threatens their marriage through personal entanglements with the candidate and other campaigners.

title: Poor Cherry

title: Don't Forget the Basics

title: Don't Forget the Basics

title: The Heroism of Thomas Chadwick

title: The Heroism of Thomas Chadwick

title: Season 11

Season 12

title: Mrs. Capper's Birthday

overview: It is Mrs Capper's 50th birthday and for years she has quietly gone about doing her best to help others. Her kind gestures have not gone unnoticed with her employers and friends joining together to give her night to remember.

title: Mrs. Capper's Birthday

title: The Wind in a Tall Paper Chimney

overview: Honeybone is an engineer and is contacted by Killick to be told that he is a test for a possible mole in the department and Honeybone's role is to say that he will give away secrets.

title: The Wind in a Tall Paper Chimney

title: The Scallop Shell

title: The Scallop Shell

title: A Second Look

title: A Second Look

title: The Contract

title: The Contract

title: A Very Fine Line

overview: A man admits to the police a murder in London's busy Soho district, but cannot remember where he left the body.

title: A Very Fine Line

title: Unscheduled Stop

overview: A highly-influential religious celebrity's public image is in danger of shattering when a plane must make an unexpected landing.

title: Unscheduled Stop

title: Recount

overview: A housewife finds herself pregnant again just as she is due to attend her daughter's marriage. She recalls her politician husband's reaction to the birth of her daughter over twenty years ago, and contemplates whether she wants to go through it all again.

title: Recount

title: No Easy Walk

overview: Adjusting to a new life in South Africa is no easy walk for Adrian.

title: No Easy Walk

title: The Escape Club

title: The Escape Club

title: Home Movies

title: Home Movies

title: You and Me

title: You and Me

title: The Glove Puppet

title: The Glove Puppet

title: The Three Wives of Felix Hull

overview: Felix visits a health farm with his third wife, only to discover that his second wife, his daughter by his first marriage, and his stepdaughter are also present.

title: The Three Wives of Felix Hull

title: One Night I Danced with Mr. Dalton

title: One Night I Danced with Mr. Dalton

title: The Ballad of the Artificial Mash

title: The Ballad of the Artificial Mash

title: Season 12

Season 13

title: The Frobisher Game

overview: While the owners of a country house are away, the servants play a game of impersonating their employers.

title: The Frobisher Game

title: A Foot in the Door

overview: David's mother thinks he would make a good salesman, but he looses his nerve every time he meets a new customer.

title: A Foot in the Door

title: What's a Mother For?

overview: Angela, whose husband is abroad, wakes to find she has been sharing a bed with a strange man....and he's dead.

title: What's a Mother For?

title: The Manderins

overview: Stanley Marsden is putting himself forward for a top job in the Civil Service, however he is only a grammar school boy, will the old public school boy network hamper his chances?..he must get by that somehow.

title: The Manderins

title: Go On - It'll Do You Good

overview: Ledbetter works for 'The Ministry of Social Welfare' he is very enthusiastic about getting old people to use the many facilities available to him.

title: Go On - It'll Do You Good

title: The Good Son

overview: Eddie the son that made good in Canada, returns on a trip to see his London Mum, he has been quite happy to contribute to her welfare but discovers she has a young tenant that has been living rent free for several months.

title: The Good Son

title: The Brophy Story

title: The Brophy Story

title: Edward the Confessor

overview: Nobody takes Edward seriously causing him to seek attention by regularly visiting the police station to confess to the latest murder. However a new guest at his landlady's house is about to give him all attention he seeks.

title: Edward the Confessor

title: The Story-Teller

overview: Brian a young man, gatecrashes a lively party and intrigues some of the guests with his sombre stories which involves them. There is something ethereal about Brian but is he worth taking seriously?

title: The Story-Teller

title: On Vacation

overview: A New York businessman and his wife on a much holiday needed in Miami find the staff are treating him as if it's his very last holiday

title: On Vacation

title: Season 13

Season 14

title: Up Among the Cuckoos

overview: A couple rebel against being forced out of their home (in the name of progress) and into a high rise publicly owned apartment.

title: Up Among the Cuckoos

title: The Others

overview: Robert and Claire are troubled that their home is also housing somebody else they don't know.

title: The Others

title: The World in a Room

overview: Harry Steffans and his coloured wife, Annie, find it difficult to rent a flat.

title: The World in a Room

title: The End of the Line

overview: On the Edinburgh to London night train, two strangers in an otherwise empty carriage start to reveal some shocking facts about themselves which turn the journey into a nightmare for one of them.

title: The End of the Line

title: A Young Man in Trouble

overview: What seems to be a major problem turns out to be a false alarm.

title: A Young Man in Trouble

title: The Prime Minister's Daughter

overview: The Prime Minister's career starts to suffer from his daughter's antics and peccadilloes ..but he loves her.

title: The Prime Minister's Daughter

title: A Room in Town

overview: Essentially a piece about wife and husband swapping, partially used for revenge.

title: A Room in Town

title: Warm Feet, Warm Heart

overview: Cockney Albert must choose between two women..one who empties his wallet regularly and another who is a cook and feeds him heartily.

title: Warm Feet, Warm Heart

title: The Second Interview

overview: A man who has become a slave to buying luxuries tells his wife that he is being interviewed for a higher-paid position at work.

title: The Second Interview

title: The Company Man

overview: Agnes realizes 'the other woman' in her and Bob's family life is the company he works for. 'The Company' demands total priority and loyalty in Bob's life.

title: The Company Man

title: Poor Mother

overview: Nineteen-year-old Bambi is upset when her husband is late arriving to see their new-born child, especially when she discovers that the wine he has brought is not intended for her.

title: Poor Mother

title: Mrs Davenport

overview: With the help of her sister and daughter, Mrs Davenport lures her husband's lover to her country house. However the girl denies ever having met him, and Mrs Davenport begins to doubt herself.

title: Mrs Davenport

title: Say Goodnight to Your Grandma

overview: A dangerous game of oneupmanship develops between three women - a wife, her mother, and her mother-in-law - when they gather around the newest born addition to the family.

title: Say Goodnight to Your Grandma

title: The Dolly Scene

overview: Anna can't seem to help ending up with the wrong partner in a line of disastrous affairs. Her hope now lies with a young man from the pop music scene.

title: The Dolly Scene

title: Wednesday's Child

overview: After his wife miscarries, a doctor hires on a private live-in nurse to look after her. As their marriage becomes more strained, the relationship between the two women becomes increasingly close.

title: Wednesday's Child

title: Still Life

overview: A forgotten and aging actress tries to recapture her youth through her actress daughter's life. Her husband understands what is going on but invariably blames the daughter for his wife's disappointments.

title: Still Life

title: Season 14

Season 15

title: Ireland, Mother Ireland

overview: A play that examines the casualties in a war, such as truth, loyalty, and death.

title: Ireland, Mother Ireland

title: The Bargain Hunters

overview: A couple buying a cheap painting begin to think that it maybe unique and valuable.

title: The Bargain Hunters

title: Office Party

overview: Men behave in a beastly, chauvinistic manner at an office party, turning what should be a fun break from work into an exercise in bad taste.

title: Office Party

title: The Loving Lessons

overview: Mary's husband works away on nights- after returning home from a party she has an unexpected caller.

title: The Loving Lessons

title: Brown Skin Gal, Stay Home and Mind Bay-Bee

overview: In this sad world where words unspoken do more damage than words spoken too much, a woman and her lodger are destined to stay on separate paths.

title: Detective Waiting

overview: A cat and mouse game develops between a big man of crime and a young detective constable. But the big man doesn't realize, that this mouse roars.

title: Detective Waiting

title: The Girl on the M1

overview: A 'lorry driver groupie' decides to start a new life.

title: The Girl on the M1

title: Will Amelia Quint Continue Writing 'A Gnome Called Shorthouse'?

overview: They write so many innocent words, but what are the authors of your children's stories really like?

title: Competition

overview: An out of work man must take his son to a school poetry competition while accompanied by his friendly neighbours, of which, he's not too secretly been having an affair with the wife.

title: Competition

title: Man Charged

overview: A procedural routine murder investigation written by a former Detective Inspector Peter Hill.

title: Man Charged

title: Father's Help

overview: A father who ditched his family life to be free and single again finds some unexpected guests left on his doorstep by his wife who has now done the same.

title: Father's Help

title: Season 15

Season 16

title: The Left Overs

overview: A blossoming friendship between a businessman and one of his flatmate's ex-girlfriends is challenged when she answers a phone call and inadvertently reveals to his boss that he has been fraudulently claiming expenses.

title: The Left Overs

title: Whatever Became of Me

overview: Peter feels his life has to change, but should he risk his marriage with another woman?

title: Whatever Became of Me

title: A Touch of the Victorians

overview: An Amateur Drama Troupe putting on a show at an old people's home, start to improvise the script with their own personal problems.

title: A Touch of the Victorians

title: High Summer

overview: The peace of an aristocratic cricketing weekend at a large English country mansion in the early 20th century is disturbed when the wayward Bohemian son of the owning family returns unexpectedly to claim his inheritance.

title: High Summer

title: Franklin's Farm

overview: A grandson's attempt to help his grandma produces problems for the family.

title: Franklin's Farm

title: A Fluid Arrangement

overview: Ernie decides to pack up and go to sea, however he had not taken into account the repercussions that would be felt by those around him.

title: A Fluid Arrangement

title: On Call

overview: Roy and Jean's happy life is shattered by Jean's sudden illness and actually finding a doctor who can help her.

title: On Call

title: The Creditors

overview: Gustave meets a man called Adolph, who tries to show him that Gustave's fiancee doesn't love him.

title: The Creditors

title: The Breaking of Colonel Keyser

overview: As the Allies prepare for invasion in 1944, concerns are raised about Colonel Keyser and his reputed psychopathic personality as a good or bad thing when leading his men into D-Day.

title: The Breaking of Colonel Keyser

title: Anywhere But England, Old Boy

overview: Jennifer visiting her Dad living on a Mediterranean Island, finds his way of life is now being threatened by local politics.

title: Anywhere But England, Old Boy

title: The Folk Singer

overview: A successful folk singer and his entourage are locked down in a Belfast hotel during the Troubles as the authorities demand him to identify himself as either a Catholic atheist or a Protestant atheist.

title: The Folk Singer

title: The Stumbling Block

overview: Alfred decides his business must keep up and move on with the times, but discovers that the biggest obstacle to change is his own son.

title: The Stumbling Block

title: Season 16

Season 17

title: The Death of Glory

overview: Prevented by health reasons from joining the Army, a man lives out his military fantasies by leading a failing marching band. His life changes when he discovers his beloved ex-Army father has a secret.

title: The Death of Glory

title: Beyond Our Means

overview: A couple invite an old school friend for a reunion dinner, it is during the conversation (with the friend now an eminent surgeon) the couple come to the stark realization that their son is showing symptoms of a looming brain tumour.

title: Beyond Our Means

title: A Bit of a Lift

overview: A man meets a woman at a wedding and manages to sweet talk her, only to end up inadvertently helping out another male.

title: A Bit of a Lift

title: Brussel Sprouts-Boy Scouts

overview: Two scout patrols from London's East End, meet up on a holiday in Kent and find it was not what they were expecting at all.

title: Brussel Sprouts-Boy Scouts

title: Red Riding Hood

overview: A repressed junior librarian, frustrated with looking after her sick father, finds herself drawn into a dangerous relationship with the man who might have murdered her mean-spirited grandmother.

title: Red Riding Hood

title: The Square of Three

overview: An army private decides one day that he's not taking any more orders, precipitating a crisis of confidence for the Medical Corps major assigned to investigate his case.

title: The Square of Three

title: Verite

overview: An affluent, happy and conventionally married couple have their preconceptions about life questioned by their guest (an underground American film maker) as they get more and more involved in his latest project.

title: Verite

title: The Golden Road

overview: A housewife, at first reluctant to have a girl lodger, finds the girl disturbs the home in a totally unexpected way.

title: The Golden Road

title: Russian Roulette

overview: It's 1865, Fiodor in St, Petersburg is reluctantly supporting his dead wife's family, when he meets new love in the form of Anna and a new life beckons escaping away and traveling Europe.

title: Russian Roulette

title: That Sinking Feeling

overview: At the gathering of a North Country wedding, the prospective husband starts to have doubts about going ahead as he observes what marriage has done to the guests.

title: That Sinking Feeling

title: Season 17

Season 18

title: If You Could See What I Can See

overview: Middle-aged Trevor has been estranged from his young wife and son, but when they meet again there are potential problems looming.

title: If You Could See What I Can See

title: Amy, Wonderful Amy

overview: Barbara lives in her own dream world and imagines becoming a pilot like her heroine Amy Johnson.

title: Amy, Wonderful Amy

title: The Virgins

overview: Three Irish bachelors value their celibacy and try to resist the temptations of the flesh, which usually involves some heavy drinking.

title: The Virgins

title: According to the Rules

overview: When an aging ex-IRA man is found dead, a Garda inspector suspects the involvement of his old comrade, now a powerful politician and industrialist. But pursuing the case will likely have consequences for the policeman and his family.

title: According to the Rules

title: Season 18

overview: Armchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by Associated British Corporation, and later by Thames Television from mid-1968.

title: Armchair Theatre

title: Театр в кресле

overview: Экранизация одноименной книги, монографии Леонарда Уайта.


title: How Do You Solve a Problem like Maria?

type: Backdrop

status: Ended

name: How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria trailer

site: YouTube

type: Trailer

How do you solve a problem like Maria?

type: Teaser

Series 1

type: Poster

title: Initial Auditions

title: Initial Auditions

title: Maria School Part 1

title: Maria School Part 1

title: Maria School Part 2

title: Maria School Part 2

title: Week 1

title: Week 1

title: Week 1 Results

title: Week 1 Results

title: Week 2

title: Week 2

title: Week 2 Results

title: Week 2 Results

title: Week 3

title: Week 3

title: Week 3 Results

title: Week 3 Results

title: Week 4

title: Week 4

title: Week 4 Results

title: Week 4 Results

title: Week 5

title: Week 5

title: Week 5 Results

title: Week 5 Results

title: Week 6

title: Week 6

title: Week 6 Results

title: Week 6 Results

title: Series 1

overview:
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? is an English reality television talent show that documented the search for an undiscovered musical theatre performer to play the role of Maria von Trapp in the 2006 Andrew Lloyd Webber and David Ian stage production of The Sound of Music.

The series was devised by executive producer Gigi Eligoloff, and was announced by the BBC in April 2006. BBC One broadcast the programme, which was hosted by Graham Norton, on Saturday evenings from 29 July through 16 September 2006.

The title derives from the refrain of "Maria", a song from the first act of The Sound of Music.

title: How Do You Solve a Problem like Maria?

character: Self - Judge

type: Cast

character: Self - Chief Judge

character: Self - Presenter

character: Self - Contestant

job: Director

department: Directing

type: Crew

job: Writer

department: Writing

job: Producer

department: Production

job: Executive Producer

job: Production Design

department: Art

job: Costume Design

department: Costume & Make-Up

job: Makeup Department Head

job: Makeup Artist

job: Graphic Designer

job: Sound Supervisor

department: Sound

job: Lighting Director

department: Lighting

job: Camera Supervisor

department: Camera

job: Lighting Technician

job: Assistant Costume Designer

job: Wardrobe Assistant

job: Editor

department: Editing