Theatre 625#With Love and Tears
{{Short description|British TV drama anthology series (1964–1968)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}}
{{Infobox television
| image = Theatre_625.jpg
| caption = Title card
| genre = Drama, Anthology, television plays
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| network = BBC 2
| first_aired = {{start date|df=yes|1964|5|3}}
| last_aired = {{end date|df=yes|1968|8|5}}
}}
Theatre 625 is a British television drama anthology series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1964 to 1968. It was one of the first regular programmes in the line-up of the channel, and the title referred to its production and transmission being in the higher-definition 625-line format, which only BBC2 used at the time.
Overview
Overall, about 110 plays were produced with a duration of usually between 75 and 90 minutes during the series' four-year run, and for its final year from 1967 the series was produced in colour, BBC2 being the first channel in Europe to convert from black-and-white.There is at least one exception to the 75-90-minute duration rule. David, Chapter 2 (2.12), a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation production first broadcast there on 20 May 1963 is listed at 60 minutes duration [https://web.archive.org/web/20160324132707/http://www.tvarchive.ca/database/16976/festival/episode_guide/ here]. Some of the best-known productions made for the series include a new version of Nigel Kneale's 1954 adaptation of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (1965); the four-part Talking to a Stranger by John Hopkins (1966) which told the same story from four different viewpoints, and features Judi Dench; and 1968's science-fiction allegory The Year of the Sex Olympics, again by Kneale.
In a 2000 poll of industry experts conducted by the British Film Institute to find the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes of the 20th century, Talking to a Stranger was placed seventy-eighth.{{Cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/features/tv/100/list/list.php|title=BFI | Features | TV 100 List of Lists|date=11 September 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110911083558/http://www.bfi.org.uk/features/tv/100/list/list.php|archive-date=11 September 2011}}
As with much British television output of the 1960s, many editions of Theatre 625 no longer exist (see Lost television broadcast). Some episodes, previously thought lost, were discovered in Washington D.C. in 2010.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2010/nov/03/lost-bbc-drama-missing-believed-wiped|title=Yesterday's heroes: the lost treasure trove of BBC drama|last=Lawson|first=Mark|author-link=Mark Lawson|work=The Guardian|date=3 November 2010|access-date=12 September 2012}} These recoveries included the remake of 1984. Only three plays, A Slight Ache, A Night Out and Mille Miglia, exist as their original 625-line colour videotapes. All's Well That Ends Well also survives in its original 625-line format, but only the first hour. Some episodes exist as lower-quality colour copies, but most plays survive as black and white 16mm or 35mm telerecordings. In addition, The Fanatics exist in full colour as a 35mm telerecording, and some short sequences on 35mm film survive from other plays.
List of episodes
The main source for compiling this list was the BFI Film & TV database. The website's master list is [https://web.archive.org/web/20090115041934/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/series/1149 here]. With a certain irregularity in transmission, breaking this list down into specific seasons is likely to be arbitrary, with variants between sources; the BFI website has been followed, except (as noted) where the lostshows website diverged in a few instances. IMDb and the BBC Genome database (of Radio Times listings) have been used as a check, and occasionally as the main source. The information about the episodes survival status in the last column is taken from the [https://www.tvbrain.info/tv-archive?showname=Theatre+625&type=lostshow TV Archive] website and The Kaleidoscope BBC Television Drama Research Guide, 1936–2011,{{cite book |last1=Coward |first1=Simon |last2=Down |first2=Richard |last3=Perry |first3=Chris |date=2011 |title=The Kaleidoscope BBC Television Drama Research Guide 1936–2011 |publisher=Kaleidoscope Publishing |pages=2508–2519}} and are correct as of 9 January 2024. A handful of the surviving episodes have been commercially released on DVD; these are footnoted.
In addition to those listed, And Some Have Greatness Thrust Upon Them, by Terence Frisby and directed by Gilchrist Calder, was planned for 1967 but cancelled as a result of Frisby obtaining an injunction against the BBC over a line excised from the script on grounds of indecency, but which Frisby deemed structurally significant to the script he had licensed to the BBC.{{cite book |last1=Bently |first1=Lionel |last2=Sherman |first2=Brad |date=2014 |title=Intellectual Property Law |edition=4th |publisher=Oxford University Press |pages=290–291 |isbn=978-0199645558}}
Legend: Se = Season; Ep = Episode; AS/A = Archive status/Availability
Abbreviations: tr =Telerecording; seq = sequence(s); VT = video tape
All known copies are black & white, except where stated otherwise.
class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:left;" |
class="unsortable" | Se
! class="unsortable" | Ep ! Title ! Author ! Producer ! Director ! class="unsortable" | Performers ! UK ! AS/A |
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id="The Heretics"
|1 |1 |data-sort-value="Seekers, The: Heretics, The"|The Seekers: |rowspan=3|{{sortname|Ken|Taylor|dab=scriptwriter}} |rowspan=3|{{sortname|Cedric|Messina}} |rowspan=3|{{sortname|Alvin|Rakoff}} |Michael Bryant, | {{dts|3 May 1964}} |35mm tr |
id="The Idealists"
|1 |2 |data-sort-value="Seekers, The: Idealists, The"|The Seekers: |Michael Bryant, | {{dts|10 May 1964}} |35mm tr |
id="The Materialists"
|1 |3 |data-sort-value="Seekers, The: Materialists, The"|The Seekers: |Michael Bryant, | {{dts|17 May 1964}} |35mm tr |
id="The Ides of March"
|1 |4 |All the Conspirators: |{{sortname|Jerome|Kilty}} based on the novel by Thornton Wilder. |{{sortname|Cedric|Messina}} |{{sortname|Naomi|Capon}} |Hugh Burden, | {{dts|5 Jul 1964}} |Lost |
id="The Just"
|1 |5 |All the Conspirators: |{{sortname|Albert|Camus}} (play, The Just Assassins) |{{sortname|Cedric|Messina}} |{{sortname|Alan|Cooke|nolink=1}} |James Maxwell, | {{dts|12 Jul 1964}} |Lost |
id="Husband and Wife"
|2 |1 |Women in Crisis: |rowspan=3|{{sortname|Colin|Morris|dab=playwright}} |rowspan=3|{{sortname|Cedric|Messina}} |{{sortname|Naomi|Capon}} |Wendy Craig, | {{dts|20 Sep 1964}} |Lost |
id="With Love and Tears"
|2 |2 |Women in Crisis: |{{sortname|William|Slater|nolink=1}} |Katharine Blake, | {{dts|27 Sep 1964}}Repeated as a Wednesday Play on 23 June 1965, in place of the postponed Vote, Vote, Vote for Nigel Barton. |16mm tr |
id="My Grandmother"
|2 |3 |Women in Crisis: |{{sortname|George R.|Foa|nolink=1}} |Janina Faye, | {{dts|4 Oct 1964}} |16mm tr |
id="Carried by Storm"
|2 |4 |Carried by Storm |{{sortname|Giles|Cooper|Giles Cooper (playwright)}} |{{sortname|Cedric|Messina}} |{{sortname|Donald|McWhinnie}} |Simon Ward, | {{dts|25 Oct 1964}} |Lost |
id="Some Do Not"
|2 |5 |Parade's End: |rowspan=3|{{sortname|Ford|Madox Ford}} (novels); |rowspan=3|{{sortname|Cedric|Messina}} |rowspan=3|{{sortname|Alan|Cooke|nolink=1}} |Ronald Hines, | {{dts|6 Dec 1964}} |16mm trReleased on DVD in the US, 2013. |
id="No More Parades"
|2 |6 |Parade's End: |Jeanne Moody, | {{dts|13 Dec 1964}} |
id="A Man Could Stand Up"
|2 |7 |Parade's End: |Judi Dench, | {{dts|20 Dec 1964}} |
id="The Minister"
|2 |8 |data-sort-value="Minister, The"|The Minister |{{sortname|John|O'Toole|nolink=1}} |{{sortname|Eric|Tayler}} |{{sortname|Peter|Potter|nolink=1}} |Michael Gough, | {{dts|3 Jan 1965}} |Lost |
id="Poor Bitos"
|2 |9 |Poor Bitos |{{sortname|Jean|Anouilh}} (play, Pauvre Bitos ou le Dîner de têtes); |{{sortname|Cedric|Messina}} |{{sortname|Donald|McWhinnie}} |John Neville, | {{dts|7 Feb 1965}} |Lost |
id="The Physicists"
|2 |10 |data-sort-value="Physicists, The"|The Physicists |{{sortname|Friedrich|Dürrenmatt}} (play), James Kirkup (translation) |{{sortname|Peter|Luke}} |{{sortname|Cedric|Messina}} |Mary Morris, | {{dts|14 Feb 1965}}Originally transmitted on BBC1 21 December 1963. |Lost |
id="Progress to the Park"
|2 |11 |Progress to the Park |{{sortname|Alun|Owen}} (play) |{{sortname|Cedric|Messina}} |{{sortname|Christopher|Morahan}} |Ken Jones, | {{dts|14 Mar 1965}} |16mm tr |
id="No Trams to Lime Street"
|2 |12 |No Trams to Lime Street |{{sortname|Alun|Owen}} (remake of 1959 TV play) |{{sortname|Cedric|Messina}} |rowspan=2|{{sortname|David J.|Thomas|nolink=1}} |Mike Pratt, | {{dts|21 Mar 1965}} |Lost |
id="A Little Winter Love"
|2 |13 |data-sort-value="Little Winter Love, A"|A Little Winter Love |{{sortname|Alun|Owen}} |{{sortname|Cedric|Messina}} |Jack Hedley, | {{dts|28 Mar 1965}} |Lost |
id="Ironhand"
|2 |14 |Ironhand |{{sortname|J. W.|Goethe|Johann Wolfgang von Goethe}} (play Götz von Berlichingen); |{{sortname|Cedric|Messina}} |{{sortname|Rudolph|Cartier}} |Roger Jones, | {{dts|11 Apr 1965}} |16mm tr |
id="Try For White"
|2 |15 |Try For White |{{sortname|Basil|Warner|nolink=1}} |{{sortname|Cedric|Messina}} |{{sortname|Alan|Gibson|dab=director}} |Yootha Joyce, | {{dts|18 Apr 1965}} |Lost |
id="Unman, Wittering and Zigo"
|2 |16 |rowspan=3|{{sortname|Giles|Cooper|Giles Cooper (playwright)}} |{{sortname|Cedric|Messina}} |{{sortname|Donald|McWhinnie}} |Peter Blythe, | {{dts|27 Jun 1965}} |35mm tr |
id="Seek Her Out"
|2 |17 |Seek Her Out |{{sortname|Cedric|Messina}} |{{sortname|Alan|Gibson|dab=director}} |Toby Robins, | {{dts|4 Jul 1965}} |35mm tr - reels 2 & 3 only of 3 |
id="The Long House"
|2 |18 |data-sort-value="Long House, The"|The Long House |{{sortname|Cedric|Messina}} |{{sortname|Naomi|Capon}} |David Buck, | {{dts|11 Jul 1965}} |35mm tr |
id="Esther's Altar"
|3 |1 |Esther's Altar |{{sortname|Paul|Smith|dab=Irish writer}} |{{sortname|Cedric|Messina}} |{{sortname|Alan|Gibson|dab=director}} |Kevin McHugh, | {{dts|5 Sep 1965}} |Lost |
id="David, Chapter 2"
|3 |2 |{{sortname|M. Charles|Cohen|nolink=1}} |{{sortname|Harvey|Hart}} for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation | |Donnelly Rhodes, | {{dts|19 Sep 1965}}[http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/7a1218829a0b47b9aae2c903f05dc7dd Details] taken from Radio Times, Issue No.2184, 16 September 1965, p. 17 |Unknown |
id="Rosmersholm"
|3 |3 |Rosmersholm |{{sortname|Henrik|Ibsen}} (play); |{{sortname|Cedric|Messina}} |{{sortname|Michael|Barry|dab=television producer}} |Peggy Ashcroft, | {{dts|26 Sep 1965}} |16mm tr |
id="Miss Julie"
|3 |4 |Miss Julie |{{sortname|August|Strindberg}} (play); |{{sortname|Cedric|Messina}} |{{sortname|Alan|Bridges}} |Gunnel Lindblom, | {{dts|3 Oct 1965}} |35mm tr |
id="Hermit Crabs"
|3 |5 |Hermit Crabs |{{sortname|Mary|Hayley Bell}} |{{sortname|Cedric|Messina}} |{{sortname|Gilchrist|Calder|nolink=1}} |Annette Crosbie, | {{dts|10 Oct 1965}} |Lost |
id="Enter Solly Gold"
|3 |6 |Enter Solly Gold |{{sortname|Bernard|Kops}} (play) |{{sortname|Cedric|Messina}} |{{sortname|Stuart|Burge}} |Bob Monkhouse, | {{dts|17 Oct 1965}} |35mm tr sequences only |
id="The Siege of Manchester"
|3 |7 |data-sort-value="Siege of Manchester, The"|The Siege of Manchester |{{sortname|Keith|Dewhurst}} |{{sortname|Cedric|Messina}} |{{sortname|Herbert|Wise}} |Alan Dobie, | {{dts|31 Oct 1965}} |Lost |
id="Keep the Aspidistra Flying"
|3 |8 |data-sort-value="Keep the Aspidistra Flying"|The World of George Orwell: |{{sortname|George|Orwell}} (novel); |rowspan=3|{{sortname|Cedric|Messina}} |rowspan=3|{{sortname|Christopher|Morahan}} |Alfred Lynch, | {{dts|7 Nov 1965}} |Lost |
id="Coming Up for Air"
|3 |9 |data-sort-value="Coming Up for Air"|The World of George Orwell: |{{sortname|George|Orwell}} (novel); |Colin Blakely, | {{dts|21 Nov 1965}} |Lost |
id="1984"
|3 |10 |data-sort-value="1984"|The World of George Orwell: |{{sortname|George|Orwell}} (novel); |David Buck, | {{dts|28 Nov 1965}} |NTSC VT of 16mm tr (damage to one scene) |
id="The Nutter"
|3 |11 |data-sort-value="Nutter, The"|Portraits From the North: |{{sortname|Alan|Plater}} |{{sortname|Cedric|Messina}} |{{sortname|Alan|Gibson|dab=director}} |Milo O'Shea, | {{dts|5 Dec 1965}} |Lost |
id="Bruno"
|3 |12 |data-sort-value="Bruno"|Portraits From the North: |{{sortname|Ronald|Eyre}} |{{sortname|Cedric|Messina}} |{{sortname|Ronald|Eyre}} |John Phillips, | {{dts|19 Dec 1965}} |Lost |
id="A Piece of Resistance"
|3 |13 |data-sort-value="Piece of Resistance, A"|A Piece of Resistance |{{sortname|Terence|Dudley}} |{{sortname|Cedric|Messina}} |{{sortname|Geoffrey|Nethercott|nolink=1}} |Lally Bowers, | {{dts|26 Dec 1965}}Repeated as a Wednesday Play on 19 October 1966. |Lost |
id="Doctor Knock"
|3 |14 |{{sortname|Jules|Romains}} (play, Knock ou le Triomphe de la médecine) |{{sortname|Cedric|Messina}} |{{sortname|Herbert|Wise}} |Mavis Villiers, | {{dts|2 Jan 1966}} |16mm tr |
id="Focus"
|3 |15 |Focus |{{sortname|Arthur|Miller}} (novel); |{{sortname|Michael|Bakewell}} |{{sortname|Alan|Gibson|dab=director}} |Vivien Merchant, | {{dts|9 Jan 1966}} |Lost |
id="Chicken Soup with Barley"
|3 |16 |data-sort-value="Chicken Soup with Barley"|The Wesker Trilogy, |{{sortname|Arnold|Wesker}} (play) |rowspan=3|{{sortname|Cedric|Messina}} |rowspan=3|{{sortname|Charles|Jarrott}} |Margery Mason, | {{dts|23 Jan 1966}} |35mm tr |
id="Roots"
|3 |17 |data-sort-value="Roots"|The Wesker Trilogy, |{{sortname|Arnold|Wesker}} (play) |Mary Miller, | {{dts|30 Jan 1966}} |35mm tr |
id="I'm Talking About Jerusalem"
|3 |18 |data-sort-value="I'm Talking About Jerusalem"|The Wesker Trilogy, |{{sortname|Arnold|Wesker}} (play) |Sonia Fraser, | {{dts|6 Feb 1966}} |35mm tr |
id="Kiss on a Grass Green Pillow"
|3 |19 |Kiss on a Grass Green Pillow |{{sortname|Rhys|Adrian}} |{{sortname|Cedric|Messina}} |{{sortname|Alan|Cooke|nolink=1}} |Susannah York, | {{dts|13 Feb 1966}} |Lost |
id="A Man Like That"
|3 |20 |data-sort-value="Man Like That, A"|A Man Like That |{{sortname|H. S.|Eveling|Stanley Eveling|Eveling, H. Stanley}} |{{sortname|Cedric|Messina}} |{{sortname|Peter|Duguid|nolink=1}} |Irene Handl, | {{dts|27 Feb 1966}} |16mm tr |
id="Simon and Laura"
|3 |21 |Simon and Laura |{{sortname|Alan|Melville|dab=writer}} |{{sortname|Cedric|Messina}} |{{sortname|Christopher|Morahan}} |Moira Lister, | {{dts|6 Mar 1966}}Originally broadcast 19 November 1964 on BBC2 as a Thursday Theatre. | |
id="The Queen and Jackson"
|3 |22 |data-sort-value="Queen and Jackson, The"|The Queen and Jackson |{{sortname|Donald|Bull|nolink=1}} |{{sortname|Cedric|Messina}} |{{sortname|John|Gorrie|dab=director}} |George Baker, | {{dts|13 Mar 1966}} |Lost |
id="A Month in the Country"
|3 |23 |data-sort-value="Month in the Country, A"|A Month in the Country |{{sortname|Ivan|Turgenev}} (play); |{{sortname|Cedric|Messina}} |{{sortname|Christopher|Morahan}} |Vivien Merchant, | {{dts|20 Mar 1966}} |16mm tr |
id="The Seagull"
|3 |24 |data-sort-value="Seagull, The"|The Seagull |{{sortname|Anton|Chekhov}} (play); |{{sortname|Cedric|Messina}} |{{sortname|Alan|Cooke|nolink=1}} |Pamela Brown, | {{dts|27 Mar 1966}}Repeated as a Play of the Month on BBC1, 17 November 1968. |16mm tr |
id="Twelfth Hour"
|3 |25 |Twelfth Hour |{{sortname|Aleksei|Arbuzov}} (play, Dvenadtsaty chas); |{{sortname|Cedric|Messina}} |{{sortname|Alan|Cooke|nolink=1}} |Clifford Evans, | {{dts|3 Apr 1966}} |35mm tr |
id="The Queen and the Welshman"
|3 |26 |data-sort-value="Queen and the Welshman, The"|The Queen and the Welshman |{{sortname|Rosemary Anne|Sisson}} (play) |{{sortname|Cedric|Messina}} |{{sortname|Basil|Coleman}} |Dorothy Tutin, | {{dts|10 Apr 1966}} |16mm tr |
id="Final Demand"
|3 |27 |Final Demand |{{sortname|Hugh|Whitemore}} |{{sortname|Cedric|Messina}} |{{sortname|Bill|Hays|dab=director}} |Kenneth More, | {{dts|24 Apr 1966}} |Lost |
id="Semi-Detached"
|3 |28 |Semi-Detached |{{sortname|David|Turner|dab=dramatist}} (play) |{{sortname|Cedric|Messina}} |{{sortname|Gilchrist|Calder|nolink=1}} |Leonard Rossiter, | {{dts|1 May 1966}} |Lost |
id="She Stoops to Conquer"
|3 |29 |She Stoops to ConquerTelevision version of a production at the Theatre Royal, Bristol. |{{sortname|Oliver|Goldsmith}} (play) |{{sortname|Brandon|Acton-Boyd|nolink=1}} |{{sortname|Roger|Jenkins|dab=director}} (for the BBC), |Patrick Stewart, | {{dts|29 May 1966}} |16mm tr |
id="Up and Down"
|3 |30 |Up and Down |{{sortname|Julia|Jones|dab=dramatist}} |{{sortname|Michael|Bakewell}} |{{sortname|Mary|Ridge}} |George Baker, | {{dts|5 Jun 1966}} |Lost |
id="Marianne"
|3 |31 |Marianne |{{sortname|Rhys|Davies|dab=writer}} (novel); |{{sortname|Cedric|Messina}} |{{sortname|John|Gorrie|dab=director}} |Nerys Hughes, | {{dts|12 Jun 1966}} |Lost |
id="The Melody Suit"
|3 |32 |data-sort-value="Melody Suit, The"|The Melody Suit |{{sortname|Christopher|Dandy|nolink=1}} (words); |{{sortname|Michael|Bakewell}} |{{sortname|Alan|Gibson|dab=director}} |John Gower, | {{dts|19 Jun 1966}} |Lost |
id="On the March to the Sea"
|3 |33 |On the March to the Sea |{{sortname|Gore|Vidal}} (novel); |{{sortname|Cedric|Messina}} |{{sortname|Alan|Gibson|dab=director}} |Joss Ackland, | {{dts|17 Jul 1966}} |NTSC VT of 16mm tr |
id="How to Get Rid of Your Husband"
|3 |34 |How to Get Rid of Your Husband |{{sortname|Robert|Gould|nolink=1}} |{{sortname|Cedric|Messina}} |{{sortname|Naomi|Capon}} |Maurice Denham, | {{dts|24 Jul 1966}} |Lost |
id="Girl of My Dreams"
|3 |35 |Girl of My Dreams |{{sortname|Hugh|Whitemore}} |{{sortname|Cedric|Messina}} |{{sortname|Bill|Hays|dab=director}} |Nicholas Pennell, | {{dts|31 Jul 1966}} |35mm tr |
id="Anytime You're Ready I'll Sparkle"
|4 |1 |data-sort-value="Talking to a Stranger, Part 1"|Talking to a Stranger, |rowspan=4|{{sortname|John|Hopkins|dab=screenwriter}} |rowspan=4|{{sortname|Michael|Bakewell}} |rowspan=4|{{sortname|Christopher|Morahan}} |Judi Dench, | {{dts|2 Oct 1966}} |35mm trReleased on DVD in The Judi Dench Collection, BBC boxed set. |
id="No Skill or Special Knowledge is Required"
|4 |2 |data-sort-value="Talking to a Stranger, Part 2"|Talking to a Stranger, |Maurice Denham, | {{dts|9 Oct 1966}} |
id="Gladly My Cross-Eyed Bear"
|4 |3 |data-sort-value="Talking to a Stranger, Part 3"|Talking to a Stranger, |Michael Bryant, | {{dts|16 Oct 1966}} |
id="The Innocent Must Suffer"
|4 |4 |data-sort-value="Talking to a Stranger, Part 4"|Talking to a Stranger, |Margery Mason, | {{dts|23 Oct 1966}} |
id="The Encounter"
|4 |5 |Conquest: |rowspan=2|{{sortname|Brian|Rawlinson}} |rowspan=2|{{sortname|Michael|Bakewell}} |rowspan=2|{{sortname|Michael|Hayes|dab=director}} |Barrie Ingham, | {{dts|29 Oct 1966}} |Lost |
id="The Leopard and the Dragon"
|4 |6 |Conquest: |Barrie Ingham, | {{dts|30 Oct 1966}} |Lost |
id="Amerika"
|4 |7 |Amerika |{{sortname|Franz|Kafka}} (novel); |{{sortname|Michael|Bakewell}} |{{sortname|James|Ferman}} |Michael Wenham, | {{dts|6 Nov 1966}} |Lost |
id="The Family Reunion"
|4 |8 |data-sort-value="Family Reunion, The"|The Family ReunionThe BFI website and IMDb are remiss in not indicating the author of this work, but the character's names indicate that it must be the play by T.S. Eliot. |{{sortname|T. S.|Eliot}} (play) |{{sortname|Michael|Bakewell}} |{{sortname|Alan|Cooke|nolink=1}} |Alec McCowen, | {{dts|27 Nov 1966}} |35mm tr |
id="Anatol"
|4 |9 |Anatol |{{sortname|Arthur|Schnitzler}} |{{sortname|Bernard|Hepton}} |{{sortname|Christopher|Morahan}} |Robert Hardy, | {{dts|4 Dec 1966}}Originally broadcast 18 March 1965 on BBC2 as a Thursday Theatre. | |
id="Men at Arms"
|4 |10 |data-sort-value="Sword of Honour, Part 1"|Sword of Honour, |rowspan=3|{{sortname|Evelyn|Waugh}} (novels); |rowspan=3|{{sortname|Michael|Bakewell}} |rowspan=3|{{sortname|Donald|McWhinnie}} |Edward Woodward, | {{dts|2 Jan 1967}} |35mm tr |
id="Officers and Gentlemen"
|4 |11 |data-sort-value="Sword of Honour, Part 2"|Sword of Honour, |Edward Woodward, | {{dts|9 Jan 1967}} |35mm tr |
id="Unconditional Surrender"
|4 |12 |data-sort-value="Sword of Honour, Part 3"|Sword of Honour, |Edward Woodward, | {{dts|16 Jan 1967}} |35mm tr |
id="A Slight Ache"
|4 |13 |data-sort-value="Slight Ache, A"|A Slight Ache |{{sortname|Harold|Pinter}} (play) |{{sortname|Michael|Bakewell}} |{{sortname|Christopher|Morahan}} |Maurice Denham, | {{dts|6 Feb 1967}} |625-line VTReleased on DVD by the BFI in the Pinter at the BBC boxed set, 2019. |
id="A Night Out"
|4 |14 |data-sort-value="Night Out, A"|A Night OutRemake of Armchair Theatre: A Night Out (1960). |{{sortname|Harold|Pinter}} (play) |{{sortname|Michael|Bakewell}} |{{sortname|Christopher|Morahan}} |Tony Selby, | {{dts|13 Feb 1967}} |
id="The Basement"
|4 |15 |data-sort-value="Basement, The"|The Basement |{{sortname|Harold|Pinter}} |{{sortname|Michael|Bakewell}} |{{sortname|Charles|Jarrott}} |Derek Godfrey, | {{dts|20 Feb 1967}} |
id="Hotel Torpe"
|4 |16 |Hotel Torpe |{{sortname|François|Billetdoux}} (play) |{{sortname|Michael|Bakewell}} |{{sortname|Rod|Graham|nolink=1}} |Siobhán McKenna, | {{dts|13 Mar 1967}} |Lost |
id="As a Man Grows Older"
|4 |17 |As a Man Grows Older |{{sortname|Italo|Svevo}} (novel, Senilità); |{{sortname|Michael|Bakewell}} |{{sortname|John|Gibson|nolink=1}} |Derek Godfrey, | {{dts|3 Apr 1967}} |Lost |
id="Kain"
|4 |18 |KainThis was the first joint production between the BBC and the Australian Broadcasting Commission. See the [https://web.archive.org/web/20090122082634/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/8583 BFI database] page. |{{sortname|Alan|Poolman|nolink=1}} |{{sortname|Lionel|Harris|nolink=1}} |{{sortname|Lionel|Harris|nolink=1}} |Keith Michell, | {{dts|17 Apr 1967}} |16mm film |
id="The Loser"
|4 |19 |data-sort-value="Loser, The"|The Loser |rowspan=3|{{sortname|Alun|Owen}} |{{sortname|Michael|Bakewell}} |{{sortname|Stuart|Burge}} |Bernard Cribbins, | {{dts|1 May 1967}} |Lost |
id="The Winner"
|4 |20 |data-sort-value="Winner, The"|The Winner |{{sortname|Michael|Bakewell}} |{{sortname|Alan|Cooke|nolink=1}} |Susannah York, | {{dts|8 May 1967}} |Lost |
id="The Fantasist"
|4 |21 |data-sort-value="Fantasist, The"|The Fantasist |{{sortname|Michael|Bakewell}} |{{sortname|Peter|Hammond|dab=actor}} |James Villiers, | {{dts|15 May 1967}} |Lost |
id="The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists"
|4 |22 |data-sort-value="Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, The"|The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists |{{sortname|Robert|Tressell}} (novel); |{{sortname|Michael|Bakewell}} |{{sortname|Christopher|Morahan}} |John Rees, | {{dts|29 May 1967}} |Lost |
id="The Blood Knot"
|4 |23 |data-sort-value="Blood Knot, The"|The Blood Knot |{{sortname|Athol|Fugard}} (play) |{{sortname|Michael|Bakewell}} |{{sortname|Robin|Midgley}} |Athol Fugard, | {{dts|12 Jun 1967}} |16mm tr |
id="Henry IV"
|4 |24 |Henry IV |{{sortname|Luigi|Pirandello}} (play, Enrico IV); |{{sortname|Michael|Bakewell}} |{{sortname|Michael|Hayes|dab=director}} |Alan Badel, | {{dts|26 Jun 1967}} |Lost |
id="Firebrand"
|4 |25 |Firebrand |{{sortname|Roger|Manvell}}, |{{sortname|Michael|Bakewell}} |{{sortname|Rudolph|Cartier}} |Ronald Lacey, | {{dts|2 Jul 1967}} |16mm tr |
id="The Plough and the Stars"
|4 |26 |data-sort-value="Plough and the Stars, The"|The Plough and the Stars |{{sortname|Sean|O’Casey|nolink=1}} |{{sortname|Lelia|Doolan}} |{{sortname|Lelia|Doolan}} | | {{dts|16 Jul 1967}}Broadcast in the Theatre 625 timeslot but not billed as such in the Radio Times (according to BBC Genome database); it was a Telefís Éireann production. | |
id="Tickle Times"
|4 |27 |Tickle Times |{{sortname|Julia|Jones|dab=dramatist}} |{{sortname|Michael|Bakewell}} |{{sortname|Mary|Ridge|nolink=1}} |Diana Coupland, | {{dts|30 Jul 1967}} |Lost |
id="55 Columns"
|4 |28 |55 Columns |{{sortname|Usha|Priyamvada|nolink=1}} (novel); |{{sortname|Michael|Bakewell}} |{{sortname|Rod|Graham|nolink=1}}, Shivendra Sinha (co-director) |Edward de Souza, | {{dts|6 Aug 1967}} |35mm film sequences exist |
id="Stan's Day Out"
|4 |29 |Stan's Day Out |{{sortname|Rhys|Adrian}} |{{sortname|Michael|Bakewell}} |{{sortname|James|MacTaggart}} |Leslie Dwyer, | {{dts|13 Aug 1967}} |35mm tr |
id="The Cupboard"
|4 |30 |data-sort-value="Cupboard, The"|The Cupboard |{{sortname|Maggie|Ross|nolink=1}} |{{sortname|Michael|Bakewell}} |{{sortname|Alan|Gibson|dab=director}} |Peter Jeffrey, | {{dts|20 Aug 1967}} |Lost |
id="The Memorandum"
|5 |1 |data-sort-value="Memorandum, The"|The Memorandum |{{sortname|Václav|Havel}} (play); |{{sortname|Michael|Bakewell}} |{{sortname|James|Ferman}} |Alfred Marks, | {{dts|24 Sep 1967}} |Lost |
id="The Lost Years of Brian Hooper"
|5 |2 |data-sort-value="Lost Years of Brian Hooper, The"|The Lost Years of Brian Hooper |{{sortname|Bernard|Kops}} |{{sortname|Michael|Bakewell}} |{{sortname|Alan|Gibson|dab=director}} |Hugh Burden, | {{dts|8 Oct 1967}} |35mm tr |
id="Dr Dee, Kelly and the Spirits"
|5 |3 |The Magicians: |rowspan=3|{{sortname|Ken|Taylor|dab=scriptwriter}} |rowspan=3|{{sortname|Michael|Bakewell}} |{{sortname|James|MacTaggart}} |Alan Dobie, | {{dts|15 Oct 1967}} |Lost |
id="The Incantation of Casanova"
|5 |4 |data-sort-value="Magicians, The: Incantation of Casanova, The"|The Magicians: |{{sortname|Herbert|Wise}} |Jeremy Brett, | {{dts|22 Oct 1967}} |35mm tr |
id="Edmund Gurney and the Brighton Mesmerist"
|5 |5 |data-sort-value="Magicians, The: Edmund Gurney and the Brighton Mesmerist"|The Magicians: |{{sortname|Peter|Hammond|dab=actor}} |Richard Todd, | {{dts|29 Oct 1967}} |Lost |
id="The Single Passion"
|5 |6 |data-sort-value="Single Passion, The"|The Single Passion |{{sortname|Ronald|Eyre}} |{{sortname|Cedric|Messina}} |{{sortname|Stuart|Burge}} |Alan Webb, | {{dts|5 Nov 1967}} |Lost |
id="The Burning Bush"
|5 |7 |data-sort-value="Burning Bush, The"|The Burning Bush |{{sortname|Geza|Herczeg|nolink=1}} (play); |{{sortname|Michael|Bakewell}} |{{sortname|Rudolph|Cartier}} |Emlyn Williams, | {{dts|12 Nov 1967}} |Lost |
id="Kittens Are Brave"
|5 |8 |Kittens Are Brave |{{sortname|Giles|Cooper|Giles Cooper (playwright)}} |{{sortname|Michael|Bakewell}} |{{sortname|Donald|McWhinnie}} |George Murcell, | {{dts|26 Nov 1967}} |Lost |
id="Lieutenant Tenant"
|5 |9 |Lieutenant Tenant |{{sortname|Pierre|Gripari}} (play) |{{sortname|Michael|Bakewell}} |{{sortname|Donald|McWhinnie}} |Angela Douglas, | {{dts|4 Dec 1967}} |Lost |
id="Play With a Tiger"
|5 |10 |Play With a Tiger |{{sortname|Doris|Lessing}} (play) |{{sortname|Michael|Bakewell}} |{{sortname|Stuart|Burge}} |Barbara Jefford, | {{dts|18 Dec 1967}} |Lost |
id="Murphy's Law"
|5 |11 |To See How Far It Is: |rowspan=3|{{sortname|Alan|Plater}} |rowspan=3|{{sortname|Michael|Bakewell}} |{{sortname|Rod|Graham|nolink=1}} |Nigel Davenport, | {{dts|1 Jan 1968}}Repeated as a Wednesday Play on 25 March 1970. |16mm tr |
id="The Curse of the Donkins"
|5 |12 |To See How Far It Is: |{{sortname|Gilchrist|Calder|nolink=1}} |Nigel Davenport, | {{dts|8 Jan 1968}}Repeated as a Wednesday Play on 1 April 1970. |16mm tr |
id="To See How Far It Is"
|5 |13 |To See How Far It Is: |{{sortname|Naomi|Capon}} |Nigel Davenport, | {{dts|15 Jan 1968}}Repeated as a Wednesday Play on 8 April 1970. |16mm tr |
id="Albinos in Black"
|5 |14 |Albinos in Black |{{sortname|Alun|Richards}} |{{sortname|Michael|Bakewell}} |{{sortname|James|Cellan Jones}} |Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, | {{dts|22 Jan 1968}} |Lost |
id="The Swallow's Nest"
|5 |15 |data-sort-value="Swallow's Nest, The"|The Swallow's Nest |{{sortname|Robert|Wales}} (play, The Cell); |{{sortname|Michael|Bakewell}} |{{sortname|Henric|Hirsch}} |Annette Crosbie, | {{dts|29 Jan 1968}} |Lost |
id="The Lady is a Liar"
|5 |16 |data-sort-value="Lady is a Liar, The"|The Lady is a Liar |{{sortname|Diego|Fabbri}}; |{{sortname|Michael|Bakewell}} |{{sortname|George R.|Foa|nolink=1}} |Susan Hampshire, | {{dts|26 Feb 1968}} |Lost |
id="To the Frontier"
|5 |17 |To the Frontier |{{sortname|Giles|Cooper|Giles Cooper (playwright)}} |{{sortname|Michael|Bakewell}} |{{sortname|Donald|McWhinnie}} |David Savile, | {{dts|4 Mar 1968}} |Lost |
id="Party Games"
|5 |18 |Party Games |{{sortname|Hugh|Whitemore}} |{{sortname|Michael|Bakewell}} |{{sortname|Rod|Graham|nolink=1}} |Frederick Jaegar, | {{dts|11 Mar 1968}}Repeated as a Wednesday Play on 29 April 1970. See the [https://web.archive.org/web/20090122082722/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/309286 BFI outline page]. |Lost |
id="The Fall of Kelvin Walker"
|5 |19 |data-sort-value="Fall of Kelvin Walker, The"|The Fall of Kelvin WalkerThe play was later adapted by Alastair Gray as a novel, The Fall of Kelvin Walker: A Fable of the Sixties (1985). |{{sortname|Alasdair|Gray}} |{{sortname|Michael|Bakewell}} |{{sortname|John|Robins|nolink=1}} |Harry H. Corbett, | {{dts|22 Apr 1968}} |Lost |
id="The Fanatics"
|5 |20 |data-sort-value="Fanatics, The"|The Fanatics |{{sortname|Stellio|Lorenzi}} (L'Affaire Calas); |{{sortname|Michael|Bakewell}} |{{sortname|Rudolph|Cartier}} |Alan Badel, | {{dts|29 Apr 1968}} |Colour 35mm telerecording |
id="Home, Sweet Honeycomb"
|5 |21 |Home, Sweet Honeycomb |{{sortname|Bernard|Kops}} |{{sortname|Michael|Bakewell}} |{{sortname|Alan|Gibson|dab=director}} |Michael Crawford, | {{dts|13 May 1968}} |Lost |
id="The Pistol Shot"
|5 |22 |data-sort-value="Pistol Shot, The"|The Pistol Shot |{{sortname|Alexander|Pushkin}} (short story); |{{sortname|Michael|Bakewell}} |{{sortname|John|Gibson|nolink=1}} |John Ronane, | {{dts|20 May 1968}} |Lost |
id="Life Class"
|5 |23 |Life Class |{{sortname|Malcolm|Quantrill|nolink=1}} |{{sortname|Michael|Bakewell}} |{{sortname|John|Tydeman}} |Susan George, | {{dts|27 May 1968}} |Lost |
id="All's Well That Ends Well"
|5 |24 |All's Well That Ends Well |{{sortname|William|Shakespeare}} (play), adapted by John Barton |{{sortname|Ronald|Travers|nolink=1}} |{{sortname|Claude|Whatham}} (for the BBC) and John Barton (for the RSC) |Ian Richardson, |Only the first hour survives,{{cite web|url=http://bufvc.ac.uk/shakespeare/index.php/title/av36617|title=All’s Well That Ends Well|website=British Universities Film and Video Council|access-date=9 May 2022}} This source also identifies it as a Theatre 625 production and the first BBC television production of a Shakespeare play transmitted in colour. on 625-line VT (held by BFI) |
id="Wind Versus Polygamy"
|5 |25 |Wind Versus Polygamy |{{sortname|Obi|Egbuna}} (play) |{{sortname|Michael|Bakewell}} |{{sortname|Naomi|Capon}} |Earl Cameron, | {{dts|15 Jul 1968}}Repeated as a Wednesday Play on 27 May 1970 and as a Play for Today on 1 April 1971. |Lost |
id="The Year of the Sex Olympics"
|5 |26 |data-sort-value="Year of the Sex Olympics, The"|The Year of the Sex Olympics |{{sortname|Nigel|Kneale}} |{{sortname|Ronald|Travers|nolink=1}} |{{sortname|Michael|Elliott|dab=director}} |Leonard Rossiter, | {{dts|29 Jul 1968}}Repeated as a Wednesday Play on 11 March 1970. |16mm trThe Year of the Sex Olympics was released on DVD by the BFI in 2003. |
id="Mille Miglia"
|5 |27 |Mille Miglia |{{sortname|Athol|Fugard}} |{{sortname|Ronald|Travers|nolink=1}} |{{sortname|Robin|Midgley}} |Michael Bryant, | {{dts|5 Aug 1968}}Repeated as a Wednesday Play on 14 January 1970. |Colour 625-line vt |
See also
References
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