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.

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class="unsortable" | Se

! class="unsortable" | Ep

! Title

! Author

! Producer

! Director

! class="unsortable" | Performers

! UK
Transmission
date

! AS/A

id="The Heretics"

|1

|1

|data-sort-value="Seekers, The: Heretics, The"|The Seekers:
The Heretics

|rowspan=3|{{sortname|Ken|Taylor|dab=scriptwriter}}

|rowspan=3|{{sortname|Cedric|Messina}}

|rowspan=3|{{sortname|Alvin|Rakoff}}

|Michael Bryant,
Derek Godfrey,
Rosemary Leach,
Newton Blick,
Robert James,
Kevin Brennan,
David Hutcheson,
Ivor Salter,
Murray Evans,
Joseph Greig,
Timothy West

| {{dts|3 May 1964}}

|35mm tr

id="The Idealists"

|1

|2

|data-sort-value="Seekers, The: Idealists, The"|The Seekers:
The Idealists

|Michael Bryant,
Patrick Allen,
Suzanne Neve,
John Robinson,
Brian Haynes,
Peter Welch,
David J. Grahame,
Vernon Dobtcheff,
Brian Vaughan

| {{dts|10 May 1964}}

|35mm tr

id="The Materialists"

|1

|3

|data-sort-value="Seekers, The: Materialists, The"|The Seekers:
The Materialists

|Michael Bryant,
Geoffrey Bayldon,
Sylvia Kay,
John Welsh,
John Lee,
Edward Brayshaw,
Ronald Lacey

| {{dts|17 May 1964}}

|35mm tr

id="The Ides of March"

|1

|4

|All the Conspirators:
The Ides of March

|{{sortname|Jerome|Kilty}} based on the novel by Thornton Wilder.

|{{sortname|Cedric|Messina}}

|{{sortname|Naomi|Capon}}

|Hugh Burden,
Tim Preece,
Douglas Wilmer,
Fenella Fielding,
Alexander Davion,
Judy Campbell,
Anna Middleton,
Michael Gough,
Declan Mulholland

| {{dts|5 Jul 1964}}

|Lost

id="The Just"

|1

|5

|All the Conspirators:
The Just

|{{sortname|Albert|Camus}} (play, The Just Assassins)

|{{sortname|Cedric|Messina}}

|{{sortname|Alan|Cooke|nolink=1}}

|James Maxwell,
Ann Lynn,
Lyndon Brook,
John Castle,
David Buck,
Reg Lye,
Roland Brand,
Robert Eddison,
Ruth Dunning

| {{dts|12 Jul 1964}}

|Lost

id="Husband and Wife"

|2

|1

|Women in Crisis:
Husband and Wife

|rowspan=3|{{sortname|Colin|Morris|dab=playwright}}

|rowspan=3|{{sortname|Cedric|Messina}}

|{{sortname|Naomi|Capon}}

|Wendy Craig,
John Ronane,
Barry Keegan,
Elizabeth Wallace,
Alison Leggatt,
John Robinson,
Michael Goodliffe,
Edward Fox,
Vivien Heilbron,
Richard Brooke

| {{dts|20 Sep 1964}}

|Lost

id="With Love and Tears"

|2

|2

|Women in Crisis:
With Love and Tears

|{{sortname|William|Slater|nolink=1}}

|Katharine Blake,
Nigel Green,
Alan Baulch,
Margot Robinson,
Margaret Ward,
Margaret Denyer,
Michael Brennan,
Peter Thornton

| {{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:
My Grandmother

|{{sortname|George R.|Foa|nolink=1}}

|Janina Faye,
Dilys Hamlett,
Anthony Singleton,
Philip Latham,
Veronica Turleigh,
John Humphry,
Paul Farrell,
Vi Delmar,
Brian Peck,
Meriel Hobson

| {{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,
Tim Preece,
Peter Marinker,
Nicholas Courtney,
Pauline Delaney,
Mary Haneffey,
Ronald Lacey,
Roslyn De Winter,
John Dearth,
John Flint,
Brian Badcoe,
Denys Hawthorne,
Nicholas Pennell,
Colin Spaull,
Tim Goodman

| {{dts|25 Oct 1964}}

|Lost

id="Some Do Not"

|2

|5

|Parade's End:
Some Do Not

|rowspan=3|{{sortname|Ford|Madox Ford}} (novels);
John Hopkins (adaptation)

|rowspan=3|{{sortname|Cedric|Messina}}

|rowspan=3|{{sortname|Alan|Cooke|nolink=1}}

|Ronald Hines,
Fulton Mackay,
Darroll Richards,
Charles Carson,
Ronald Leigh-Hunt,
Sylvia Coleridge,
Godfrey Quigley,
Jeanne Moody,
Judi Dench,
Annette Robertson,
Tony Steedman
Frank Gatliff,
Inigo Jackson,
Gerry Wain,
Robert James,
Erik Chitty,
Nicholas Pennell

| {{dts|6 Dec 1964}}

|16mm trReleased on DVD in the US, 2013.

id="No More Parades"

|2

|6

|Parade's End:
No More Parades

|Jeanne Moody,
Ronald Hines,
Sylvia Kay,
Ronald Leigh-Hunt,
Judi Dench,
Arthur Pentelow,
Fulton MacKay,
Nicholas Pennell,
Talfryn Thomas,
Colin Jeavons,
Tony Steedman

| {{dts|13 Dec 1964}}

|16mm tr

id="A Man Could Stand Up"

|2

|7

|Parade's End:
A Man Could Stand Up

|Judi Dench,
Ruth Porcher,
Ronald Hines,
Arthur White,
Michel Ray,
Bryan Hunt,
Charles Houston,
Arthur Lovegrove,
Shane Rimmer,
Edward Burnham,
Douglas Ditta,
Philip Stone,
Derrick Glibert,
Peter Purves,
Tony Steedman,
Barry Jackson,
Maurice Selwyn

| {{dts|20 Dec 1964}}

|35mm tr

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,
Jessica Dunning,
Nadia Cattouse,
Barbara Jefford,
Earl Cameron,
Mark Dignam,
Roger Livesey,
Noel Johnson,
Bernard Horsfall,
Denis Carey,
Thomasine Heiner,
Antony Webb,
Ralph Michael

| {{dts|3 Jan 1965}}

|Lost

id="Poor Bitos"

|2

|9

|Poor Bitos

|{{sortname|Jean|Anouilh}} (play, Pauvre Bitos ou le Dîner de têtes);
Lucienne Hill (translator)

|{{sortname|Cedric|Messina}}

|{{sortname|Donald|McWhinnie}}

|John Neville,
Noel Davis,
Rolf Lefebvre,
Penelope Horner,
Anne Cunningham,
Patrick Allen,
Geoffrey Chater,
James Villiers,
Nicholas Pennell,
Gemma Jones,
Tony Calvin

| {{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,
Tom Watson,
Hayden Jones,
John Bennett,
Michael Kilgarriff,
Neil McCarthy

| {{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,
John Scott Martin,
Will Leighton,
Gavin Reed,
Patrick McAlliney,
John McBride,
Walter Swash,
David Nott,
Gerald McAllister,
Malcolm Taylor,
Eddie Mallin,
Peter McEnery,
Patrick Tull

| {{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,
Tom Bell,
Anthony Hall,
Clifford Evans,
Ishaq Bux,
Alister Williamson,
Islwyn Morris,
June Barry

| {{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,
Peter Dyneley,
Lelia Goldoni,
Sylvia Kay,
Mike Pratt,
Artro Morris,
Nerys Hughes

| {{dts|28 Mar 1965}}

|Lost

id="Ironhand"

|2

|14

|Ironhand

|{{sortname|J. W.|Goethe|Johann Wolfgang von Goethe}} (play Götz von Berlichingen);
John Arden (adaptation)

|{{sortname|Cedric|Messina}}

|{{sortname|Rudolph|Cartier}}

|Roger Jones,
William Dysart,
Edward Purdom,
Michael Brennan,
Denis Cleary,
Gertan Klauber,
Marshall Jones,
Stanley Lebor,
Michael Goodliffe,
Nicholas Evans,
John Glyn-Jones,
Graham Leaman,
Ian Ogilvy,
Jerome Willis,
David Dodimead,
Michael Mulcaster,
Derek Sydney,
Roy Pattison

| {{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,
Joss Ackland,
Gary Bond,
Zoe Randall,
Marda Vanne,
Nan Munro,
Maxine Holden

| {{dts|18 Apr 1965}}

|Lost

id="Unman, Wittering and Zigo"

|2

|16

|Unman, Wittering and Zigo

|rowspan=3|{{sortname|Giles|Cooper|Giles Cooper (playwright)}}

|{{sortname|Cedric|Messina}}

|{{sortname|Donald|McWhinnie}}

|Peter Blythe,
John Sharp,
Peter Howell,
Tamara Kinchco,
Noel Davis,
Ann Way,
Norman Wynne,
Jeremy Ranchev,
Roger Shepherd,
Robert Dodson,
Roger Bradley,
Michael Wenning,
Christopher Witty,
Dane Howell,
Dennis Waterman,
Hywel Bennett,
Norman Bacon

| {{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,
Anthony Newlands,
Zakes Mokae,
Edward Brayshaw,
John Woodvine,
Robert James,
Peter Diamond

| {{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,
Caroline Mortimer,
Toke Townley,
Joan Hickson,
Arthur Pentelow,
Thomas Baptiste,
Sheila Grant,
Frederick Piper,
Winifred Dennis,
John Herrington,
Reg Lever

| {{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,
Margaret D'Arcy,
Betty McDowell,
Barry Keegan,
Pauline Delaney,
Audrey Corr,
Jack MacGowran,
Liam Gaffney,
James Caffrey,
Anna Manahan,
Dermot Tuohy,
Graham Leaman

| {{dts|5 Sep 1965}}

|Lost

id="David, Chapter 2"

|3

|2

|David, Chapter 2

|{{sortname|M. Charles|Cohen|nolink=1}}

|{{sortname|Harvey|Hart}} for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

|

|Donnelly Rhodes,
Toby Tarnow,
Powys Thomas,
Lynne Gorman

| {{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);
Ann Jellicoe (translation)

|{{sortname|Cedric|Messina}}

|{{sortname|Michael|Barry|dab=television producer}}

|Peggy Ashcroft,
Knut Wigert,
Mark Dignam,
Angela Baddeley,
Morris Perry,
John Laurie

| {{dts|26 Sep 1965}}

|16mm tr

id="Miss Julie"

|3

|4

|Miss Julie

|{{sortname|August|Strindberg}} (play);
Alan Bridges (adaptation)

|{{sortname|Cedric|Messina}}

|{{sortname|Alan|Bridges}}

|Gunnel Lindblom,
Ian Hendry,
Stephanie Bidmead

| {{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,
Anthony Booth,
Billy Cornelius,According to the [https://web.archive.org/web/20090117071527/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/548284 BFI website], the billing was to Bill Cornelius.
Clyde Pollitt,
Gladys Henson,
Anne Blake,
Bill Cartwright,
William Moore

| {{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,
Linda Polan,
Terence Sewards,
Miriam Margolyes,
John Barrard,
Lilly Kann,
Cyril Shaps,
George Layton

| {{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,
Doris Wellings,
Eve Pearce,
Eileen Winterton,
Derek Benfield,
André Morell,
Sian Davies,
John Dearth,
Reginald Barratt,
Donald Eccles,
Frazer Hines,
Harry Littlewood,
Kevin Stoney,
Brian Peck,
Jeremy Spenser,
David Valla,
Malcolm Taylor,
Michael Davis

| {{dts|31 Oct 1965}}

|Lost

id="Keep the Aspidistra Flying"

|3

|8

|data-sort-value="Keep the Aspidistra Flying"|The World of George Orwell:
Keep the Aspidistra Flying

|{{sortname|George|Orwell}} (novel);
Robin Chapman (adaptation)

|rowspan=3|{{sortname|Cedric|Messina}}

|rowspan=3|{{sortname|Christopher|Morahan}}

|Alfred Lynch,
Charles Hodgson,
Winifred Dennis,
Marie Hopps,
Sydney Bromley,
Hilda Barry,
Clive Elliott,
Anne Stallybrass,
Norman Mitchell,
Sydney Arnold,
Sheila Grant,
Bartlett Mullins,
Alec Wallis

| {{dts|7 Nov 1965}}

|Lost

id="Coming Up for Air"

|3

|9

|data-sort-value="Coming Up for Air"|The World of George Orwell:
Coming Up for Air

|{{sortname|George|Orwell}} (novel);
Robin Chapman (adaptation)

|Colin Blakely,
Frederick Farley,
Maitland Moss,
Larry Dann,
Carmel McSharry,
Ann Way,
Peggy Aitchison,
Reginald Jessup,
Howard Lang,
Patrick Godfrey,
Clifford Cox

| {{dts|21 Nov 1965}}

|Lost

id="1984"

|3

|10

|data-sort-value="1984"|The World of George Orwell:
1984
1984 was not Orwell's preferred rendering, but this production used the numerical form.

|{{sortname|George|Orwell}} (novel);
Nigel Kneale (adaptation)

|David Buck,
Joseph O'Conor,
Vernon Dobtcheff,
Jane Merrow,
Cyril Shaps,
Norman Chappell,
Sally Lahee,
John Garrie,
John Mincer,
Peter Bathurst,
John Brandon,
Eric Francis,
Sydney Arnold,
David Grey,
John Abineri,
Michael Sheard,
Brian Badcoe

| {{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:
The Nutter

|{{sortname|Alan|Plater}}

|{{sortname|Cedric|Messina}}

|{{sortname|Alan|Gibson|dab=director}}

|Milo O'Shea,
Ronald Lacey,
Mike Pratt,
Tristram Jellinek,
Henry Soskin,
Sidney Gatcum,
Faith Curtis,
Ken Parry,
Joseph O'Conor,
Helen Fraser,
Yootha Joyce,
John Cater,
Richard Mathews

| {{dts|5 Dec 1965}}

|Lost

id="Bruno"

|3

|12

|data-sort-value="Bruno"|Portraits From the North:
Bruno

|{{sortname|Ronald|Eyre}}

|{{sortname|Cedric|Messina}}

|{{sortname|Ronald|Eyre}}

|John Phillips,
Ronnie Barker,
Anne Stallybrass,
Hazel Cooper,
John Gill,
Noel Dyson,
Barry Jackson,
Susan Hanson,
Fred Ferris,
Gary Files,
Barbara Miller

| {{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,
William Kendall,
Frederick Jaeger,
James Villiers

| {{dts|26 Dec 1965}}Repeated as a Wednesday Play on 19 October 1966.

|Lost

id="Doctor Knock"

|3

|14

|Doctor Knock

|{{sortname|Jules|Romains}} (play, Knock ou le Triomphe de la médecine)
Harley Granville-Barker (translator)

|{{sortname|Cedric|Messina}}

|{{sortname|Herbert|Wise}}

|Mavis Villiers,
Leonard Rossiter,
John Le Mesurier,
Jimmy Gardner,
James Grout,
Graham Armitage,
Robert Gillespie,
Patrick Godfrey

| {{dts|2 Jan 1966}}

|16mm tr

id="Focus"

|3

|15

|Focus

|{{sortname|Arthur|Miller}} (novel);
Ruth Sheale (adaptation)

|{{sortname|Michael|Bakewell}}

|{{sortname|Alan|Gibson|dab=director}}

|Vivien Merchant,
Ray McAnally,
Sydney Tafler,
Joss Ackland,
Lucille Fenton,
Larry Cross,
Pearl Catlin,
Donald Sutherland,
Glenn Beck,
Martin Miller

| {{dts|9 Jan 1966}}

|Lost

id="Chicken Soup with Barley"

|3

|16

|data-sort-value="Chicken Soup with Barley"|The Wesker Trilogy,
Part 1:
Chicken Soup with Barley

|{{sortname|Arnold|Wesker}} (play)

|rowspan=3|{{sortname|Cedric|Messina}}

|rowspan=3|{{sortname|Charles|Jarrott}}

|Margery Mason,
Clive Revill,
Stanley Meadows,
John Allison,
Sonia Fraser,
Stella Tanner,
Harry Landis,
David Swift

| {{dts|23 Jan 1966}}

|35mm tr

id="Roots"

|3

|17

|data-sort-value="Roots"|The Wesker Trilogy,
Part 2:
Roots

|{{sortname|Arnold|Wesker}} (play)

|Mary Miller,
Gwen Nelson,
Ewan Hooper,
Doreen Aris,
Billy Russell,
Brian Cant,
Leslie Anderson,
Jonathan Holt,
Maryann Turner

| {{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,
Part 3:
I'm Talking About Jerusalem

|{{sortname|Arnold|Wesker}} (play)

|Sonia Fraser,
Stanley Meadows,
Margery Mason,
John Allison,
John Harvey,
Stella Tanner,
Hilda Kriseman,
Patrick O'Connell,
Jeremy Bulloch,
Jack Wild

| {{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,
Zena Walker,
Robert Stephens,
Colin Blakely

| {{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,
Norman Bird,
Annette Crosbie,
Jeanne Moody,
Colin Ellis,
Margaret Nolan,
Hazel Coppin,
Stella Tanner,
Terry Wright,
Stephen Moore,
Stephen Dartnell,
Victor Carin,
Nicholas Smith,
John Abineri,
Michael Barrington,
Rosamund Greenwood

| {{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,
Ian Carmichael,
Richard Briers,
Henry McGee,
Charles Lloyd-Pack,
Molly Urquhart,
Penny Morrell,
Philo Hauser

| {{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,
Jill Dixon,
Madeleine Christie,
Willoughby Goddard,
Sylvia Coleridge,
James Cossins,
Eric Hillyard,
Arthur Hewlett,
Roy Marsden

| {{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);
Elisaveta Fen (translator)

|{{sortname|Cedric|Messina}}

|{{sortname|Christopher|Morahan}}

|Vivien Merchant,
Derek Godfrey,
Michele Dotrice,
Hywel Bennett,
Timothy Darwen,
Jan Conrad,
Enid Lorimer,
Susan Field,
Philip Latham,
John Baskcomb

| {{dts|20 Mar 1966}}

|16mm tr

id="The Seagull"

|3

|24

|data-sort-value="Seagull, The"|The Seagull

|{{sortname|Anton|Chekhov}} (play);
George Calderon (translation)

|{{sortname|Cedric|Messina}}

|{{sortname|Alan|Cooke|nolink=1}}

|Pamela Brown,
Niall MacGinnis,
Annette Crosbie,
Gemma Jones,
Robert Stephens,
Sydney Tafler,
Charles Carson,
Robin Phillips

| {{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);
Ariadne Nicolaeff (adaptation)

|{{sortname|Cedric|Messina}}

|{{sortname|Alan|Cooke|nolink=1}}

|Clifford Evans,
Michael Goodliffe,
Sheila Allen,
Dudley Foster,
Walter Brown,
Hannah Gordon,
Thelma Ruby,
Elizabeth Wallace,
William Holmes,
Mark Jones,
John Barrard

| {{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,
Derek Godfrey,
Jeremy Brett,
Nicholas Selby,
Gordon Whiting,
Llewellyn Rees,
Fiona Hartford,
Charles Thomas,
Robert Russell,
Jack Wild,
Harry Littlewood

| {{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,
Michael Forrest,Unlike the BFI, IMDb lists him as Michael Forest, but there was a British actor in this era with relatively extensive television credits who spelt his surname with a second 'r'.
Ken Wynne

| {{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,
Alison Leggatt,
Barrie Ingham,
William Kendall

| {{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),
Val May (theatre production)

|Patrick Stewart,
Hazel Hughes,
Barbara Leigh-Hunt,
Gawn Grainger,
Anna Carteret

| {{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,
Bernard Archard,
Ann Lynn,
John Collin,
Keith Bell,
Marion Mathie,
John Moore

| {{dts|5 Jun 1966}}

|Lost

id="Marianne"

|3

|31

|Marianne

|{{sortname|Rhys|Davies|dab=writer}} (novel);
Harry Greene (adaptation)

|{{sortname|Cedric|Messina}}

|{{sortname|John|Gorrie|dab=director}}

|Nerys Hughes,
Jan Edwards,
Henley Thomas,
Rachel Thomas,
Artro Morris,
Gwyneth Owen,
Salmean Peer

| {{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);
Derrick Mason (music)

|{{sortname|Michael|Bakewell}}

|{{sortname|Alan|Gibson|dab=director}}

|John Gower,
Patricia Michael,
Michael Maurel

| {{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,
Barrie Ingham,
Tony Bill,
Tessa Wyatt,
Tucker McGuire,
Stella Tanner,
Lindsay Campbell,
Richard James,
Peter Madden,
Donald Sutherland

| {{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,
Priscilla Morgan,
Avis Bunnage,
Denise Coffey,
Marcus Hammond,
Margaret Heald,
Winifred Dennis,
Norman Scace,
Keith Anderson,
Richard Hampton,
Malcolm Taylor,
Don McKillop

| {{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,
Chela Matthison,
Edward Fox,
James Grout,
Kathleen Michael,
Anne Brooks,
Jennifer Jayne,
George A. Cooper,
John D. Collins,
Ian Cunningham

| {{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,
Part 1:
Anytime You're Ready I'll Sparkle

|rowspan=4|{{sortname|John|Hopkins|dab=screenwriter}}

|rowspan=4|{{sortname|Michael|Bakewell}}

|rowspan=4|{{sortname|Christopher|Morahan}}

|Judi Dench,
Michael Bryant,
Maurice Denham,
Margery Mason,
Emrys James,
Timothy Carlton,
Calvin Lockhart

| {{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,
Part 2:
No Skill or Special Knowledge is Required

|Maurice Denham,
Michael Bryant,
Judi Dench,
Margery Mason,
Emrys James,
Calvin Lockhart,
Ann Mitchell,
Frederick Pyne,
Barry Stanton

| {{dts|9 Oct 1966}}

|35mm tr

id="Gladly My Cross-Eyed Bear"

|4

|3

|data-sort-value="Talking to a Stranger, Part 3"|Talking to a Stranger,
Part 3:
Gladly My Cross-Eyed Bear

|Michael Bryant,
Judi Dench,
Maurice Denham,
Margery Mason,
Windsor Davies,
Terry Leigh

| {{dts|16 Oct 1966}}

|35mm tr

id="The Innocent Must Suffer"

|4

|4

|data-sort-value="Talking to a Stranger, Part 4"|Talking to a Stranger,
Part 4:
The Innocent Must Suffer

|Margery Mason,
Michael Bryant,
Judi Dench,
Maurice Denham,
Mariann Turner,
Emrys James,
Windsor Davies

| {{dts|23 Oct 1966}}

|35mm tr

id="The Encounter"

|4

|5

|Conquest:
The Encounter

|rowspan=2|{{sortname|Brian|Rawlinson}}

|rowspan=2|{{sortname|Michael|Bakewell}}

|rowspan=2|{{sortname|Michael|Hayes|dab=director}}

|Barrie Ingham,
Donald Eccles,
Malcolm Webster,
Frederick Jaeger,
Sebastian Breaks,
Michael Pennington,
Hamilton Dyce,
Janet Suzman,
Alan Dobie,
Jane Wenham,
John Nettleton,
Peter Halliday,
David Garfield,
Bernard Hepton,
John Sharp,
Noel Johnson,
George Selway,
John Cater,
Timothy Bateson,
Terence Lodge

| {{dts|29 Oct 1966}}

|Lost

id="The Leopard and the Dragon"

|4

|6

|Conquest:
The Leopard and the Dragon

|Barrie Ingham,
Donald Eccles,
Malcolm Webster,
Frederick Jaeger,
Sebastian Breaks,
Hamilton Dyce,
Janet Suzman,
Alan Dobie
John Nettleton,
Peter Halliday,
David Garfield,
Noel Johnson,
John Sharp,
George Selway,
John Cater,
Terence Lodge,
Bernard Hepton,
Joby Blanshard

| {{dts|30 Oct 1966}}

|Lost

id="Amerika"

|4

|7

|Amerika

|{{sortname|Franz|Kafka}} (novel);
Hugh Whitemore (adaptation)

|{{sortname|Michael|Bakewell}}

|{{sortname|James|Ferman}}

|Michael Wenham,
Bernard Bresslaw,
Harold Goldblatt,
Roy Dotrice,
George Murcell,
Janet Webb,
Pauline Collins,
Carl Jaffe,
George Eugeniou,
Gábor Baraker,
Henry McCarthy,
Vladek Sheybal,
Michele Dotrice,
Warren Mitchell,
Hana Maria Pravda

| {{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,
Mary Morris,
Mary Merrall,
Janet Suzman,
Geoffrey Bayldon,
Sylvia Coleridge,
Victor Maddern,
Maureen Pryor,
Nigel Stock

| {{dts|27 Nov 1966}}

|35mm tr

id="Anatol"

|4

|9

|Anatol

|{{sortname|Arthur|Schnitzler}}

|{{sortname|Bernard|Hepton}}

|{{sortname|Christopher|Morahan}}

|Robert Hardy,
John Wood,
Moira Redmond,
Elvi Hale,
Priscilla Morgan

| {{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,
Part One:
Men at Arms

|rowspan=3|{{sortname|Evelyn|Waugh}} (novels);
Giles Cooper (adaptation)

|rowspan=3|{{sortname|Michael|Bakewell}}

|rowspan=3|{{sortname|Donald|McWhinnie}}

|Edward Woodward,
Ronald Fraser,
Vivian Pickles,
Paul Hardwick,
James Villiers,
Donald Layne-Smith,
Trader Faulkner,
Tim Preece,
Nicholas Hawtrey,
David Savile,
Clifford Cox,
Jimmy Gardner,
Keith Pyott,
Esmond Webb,
Richard Hampton,
Denis McCarthy

| {{dts|2 Jan 1967}}

|35mm tr

id="Officers and Gentlemen"

|4

|11

|data-sort-value="Sword of Honour, Part 2"|Sword of Honour,
Part Two:
Officers and Gentlemen

|Edward Woodward,
Trader Faulkner,
Vivian Pickles,
Anthony Roye,
James Villiers,
Donald Layne-Smith,
Nicholas Hawtrey,
Tim Preece,
Clifford Cox,
Erik Chitty,
Richard Hampton,
Peter Howell,
Dennis Chinnery,
Robert Fyfe,
Douglas Ditta,
Sydney Bromley,
Freddie Jones,
Geoffrey Chater,
James Beck,
John Flint,
Nicholas Courtney,
Ronald Fraser

| {{dts|9 Jan 1967}}

|35mm tr

id="Unconditional Surrender"

|4

|12

|data-sort-value="Sword of Honour, Part 3"|Sword of Honour,
Part Three:
Unconditional Surrender

|Edward Woodward,
John Martin,
Donald Layne-Smith,
Basil Dignam,
Edward Bishop,
Trader Faulkner,
James Villiers,
Anthony Roye,
Freddie Jones,
Vivian Pickles,
George Waring,
Nicholas Courtney,
Denys Hawthorne,
Will Stampe,
Caroline Hunt,
Paul Hardwick,
Robert MacLeod

| {{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,
Hazel Hughes,
Gordon Richardson

| {{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,
Anna Wing,
Avril Elgar,
John Castle,
Richard Moore,
Peter Pratt,
Kevin Barry,
Billy Russell,
Patrick Cato,
Sydney Arnold,
Chris Chittell

| {{dts|13 Feb 1967}}

|625-line VT

id="The Basement"

|4

|15

|data-sort-value="Basement, The"|The Basement

|{{sortname|Harold|Pinter}}

|{{sortname|Michael|Bakewell}}

|{{sortname|Charles|Jarrott}}

|Derek Godfrey,
Harold Pinter,
Kika Markham

| {{dts|20 Feb 1967}}

|35mm tr

id="Hotel Torpe"

|4

|16

|Hotel Torpe

|{{sortname|François|Billetdoux}} (play)

|{{sortname|Michael|Bakewell}}

|{{sortname|Rod|Graham|nolink=1}}

|Siobhán McKenna,
John Slater,
Ronald Hines,
Hamilton Dyce,
Joby Blanshard,
Natalie Kent,
Peter Pratt,
Judith Arthy,
Yemi Ajibade,
Dorothy Edwards,
Elizabeth Proud,
Derek Seaton,
Philip Voss

| {{dts|13 Mar 1967}}

|Lost

id="As a Man Grows Older"

|4

|17

|As a Man Grows Older

|{{sortname|Italo|Svevo}} (novel, Senilità);
Barry Bermange (adaptation)

|{{sortname|Michael|Bakewell}}

|{{sortname|John|Gibson|nolink=1}}

|Derek Godfrey,
Peter Blythe,
Hilary Hardiman,
Ilona Rodgers

| {{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,
J. G. Devlin,
Audine Leith,
Alan White,
Candy Devine,
Roger Cox,
Teddy Plummer,
Michael Williamson

| {{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,
Geraldine Moffatt,Credited as 'Moffatt' on this occasion (BFI website).
Godfrey Quigley,
Henley Thomas,
Gwendolyn Watts

| {{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,
T. P. McKenna,
Mark Burns

| {{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,
Charlotte Rampling,
Anthony Bate,
Paul Hardwick,
Tim Preece,
Gordon Waller,
Jean Aubrey,
Norman Shelley,
Barbara Couper

| {{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);
Stuart Douglas (adaptation)

|{{sortname|Michael|Bakewell}}

|{{sortname|Christopher|Morahan}}

|John Rees,
Edward Fox,
Bryan Pringle,
Felix Felton,
Bartlett Mullins,
Jeffrey Segal,
Keith Smith,
Robert Bridges,
George Roderick,
Christopher Benjamin,
John Rees,
David Webb,
Freddy Foote,
Kenneth Benda,
David Garth

| {{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,
Charles Hyatt

| {{dts|12 Jun 1967}}

|16mm tr

id="Henry IV"

|4

|24

|Henry IV

|{{sortname|Luigi|Pirandello}} (play, Enrico IV);
Robert Muller (adaptation)

|{{sortname|Michael|Bakewell}}

|{{sortname|Michael|Hayes|dab=director}}

|Alan Badel,
Maxine Audley,
Anthony Newlands,
Kika Markham,
Neville Jason,
Hamilton Dyce
Murray Melvin

| {{dts|26 Jun 1967}}

|Lost

id="Firebrand"

|4

|25

|Firebrand

|{{sortname|Roger|Manvell}},
Scot Finch

|{{sortname|Michael|Bakewell}}

|{{sortname|Rudolph|Cartier}}

|Ronald Lacey,
Donald Pickering,
Anton Diffring,
Patricia Denys,
Annette Carrell,
Peter Vaughan
Kenneth J. Warren,
David J. Grahame,
Derek Newark,
Cyril Shaps,
Royston Tickner,
Martin Benson

| {{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,
John Stratton,
David Collings,
Keith Bell,
Angela Crow,
Edmond Bennett,
Mike Pratt,
Catherine Howe,
Miriam Raymond,
Kenneth Ives,
Eric Francis,
Keith Anderson

| {{dts|30 Jul 1967}}

|Lost

id="55 Columns"

|4

|28

|55 Columns

|{{sortname|Usha|Priyamvada|nolink=1}} (novel);
James Brabazon (adaptation)

|{{sortname|Michael|Bakewell}}

|{{sortname|Rod|Graham|nolink=1}}, Shivendra Sinha (co-director)

|Edward de Souza,
Rani Dubä,
Lalita Ahmed,
Roshan Seth,
Zohra Segal,Credited as 'Zohra Segal' according to the [https://web.archive.org/web/20090122082521/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/837815 BFI website].
Bakshi Prem,
Chitra Neogy,
Esmë Sen,
Devi Shah,
Kelyani Sitaram

| {{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,
Alfie Bass,
Roddy McMillan,
Bryan Pringle,
Michael Robbins

| {{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,
Rosemary Leach,
Donald Gee,
Helen Booth,
William Moore,
Charles Lamb,
Ella Milne

| {{dts|20 Aug 1967}}

|Lost

id="The Memorandum"

|5

|1

|data-sort-value="Memorandum, The"|The Memorandum

|{{sortname|Václav|Havel}} (play);
Vera Blackwell (translation/adaptation)

|{{sortname|Michael|Bakewell}}

|{{sortname|James|Ferman}}

|Alfred Marks,
Warren Mitchell,
Hattie Jacques,
Judy Cornwell,
Robert Eddison,
Murray Melvin,
John Sharp,
Ronnie Stevens,
Patsy Rowlands,
Sydney Bromley

| {{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,
Margery Mason
Sheila Reid,
Ray Brooks,
Alan MacNaughtan,
Susan George,
Kate Story,
Carl Forgione,
Edward de Souza,
Peter Jesson

| {{dts|8 Oct 1967}}

|35mm tr

id="Dr Dee, Kelly and the Spirits"

|5

|3

|The Magicians:
Dr Dee, Kelly and the Spirits

|rowspan=3|{{sortname|Ken|Taylor|dab=scriptwriter}}

|rowspan=3|{{sortname|Michael|Bakewell}}

|{{sortname|James|MacTaggart}}

|Alan Dobie,
Frank Finlay,
John Warner,
Caroline Monkhouse,
Rosemary Hall,
Anthony Kemp,
Mary Peach

| {{dts|15 Oct 1967}}

|Lost

id="The Incantation of Casanova"

|5

|4

|data-sort-value="Magicians, The: Incantation of Casanova, The"|The Magicians:
The Incantation of Casanova

|{{sortname|Herbert|Wise}}

|Jeremy Brett,
Antony Webb
Geoffrey Bayldon,
Anne Cunningham,
Patrick O'Connell,
Jacqueline Pearce,
Daphne Anderson,
George Selway

| {{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:
Edmund Gurney and the Brighton Mesmerist

|{{sortname|Peter|Hammond|dab=actor}}

|Richard Todd,
Ray Brooks,
Anthony Bate,
Lynda Baron,
Diana Fairfax,
John Barcroft,
Barry Wilsher,
Roger Kemp,
John Baker,
John Gill

| {{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,
Rosalie Crutchley,
Michael Pennington,
Christopher Timothy,
Nigel Terry,
John Allison,
Tamara Hinchco,
David Lincoln,
George A. Cooper,
Arnold Yarrow,
Joby Blanshard,
John Bryans

| {{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);
John Hopkins (adaptation)

|{{sortname|Michael|Bakewell}}

|{{sortname|Rudolph|Cartier}}

|Emlyn Williams,
Alan Keith,
Peter Copley,
Peter Woodthorpe,
Stephen Murray,
Marjorie Rhodes,
Daphne Slater,
Ronald Lacey

| {{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,
Diana Fairfax,
Geoffrey Bayldon

| {{dts|26 Nov 1967}}

|Lost

id="Lieutenant Tenant"

|5

|9

|Lieutenant Tenant

|{{sortname|Pierre|Gripari}} (play)

|{{sortname|Michael|Bakewell}}

|{{sortname|Donald|McWhinnie}}

|Angela Douglas,
Bee Duffell,
Philip Grout,
Jimmy Thompson,
Patrick Tull,
Jimmy Gardner,
David Battley,
Job Stewart,
Harold Innocent,
Brian Steele,
Noel Davis,
Derek Needs,
Henzie Raeburn,
Dudley Jones

| {{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,
John Turner,
Michael Gough,
Patricia Lawrence,
Jeremy Burnham,
Sharon Cathness

| {{dts|18 Dec 1967}}

|Lost

id="Murphy's Law"

|5

|11

|To See How Far It Is:
Murphy's Law

|rowspan=3|{{sortname|Alan|Plater}}

|rowspan=3|{{sortname|Michael|Bakewell}}

|{{sortname|Rod|Graham|nolink=1}}

|Nigel Davenport,
Norman Rodway,
Ronald Hines,
Donald Gee,
Rhoda Lewis,
John Bryans,
Philip Bond,
Arthur Cox,
Dorothy Edwards

| {{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:
The Curse of the Donkins

|{{sortname|Gilchrist|Calder|nolink=1}}

|Nigel Davenport,
Norman Rodway,
Stephanie Bidmead,
John Bryans,
Fiona Walker,
Jill Melford,
Clive Francis,
Gareth Robinson,
Richard Armour

| {{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:
To See How Far It Is

|{{sortname|Naomi|Capon}}

|Nigel Davenport,
Norman Rodway,
Geoffrey Bayldon,
Avril Elgar,
Anne Stallybrass,
Peter Stephens,
John Bryans,
Arthur Cox,
Philip Bond,
Tony Blackburn,
Stephen Jack,
Donald Gee,
Rhoda Lewis,
Patricia Maynard,
Fiona Walker,
Arnold Ridley

| {{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,
Gerald James,
Meg Wynn Owen,
Emrys Jones,
Pauline Delaney,
John Rees,
Charles Williams,
Sheila Irwin,
Willie Jonah,
Ilario Bisi-Pedro

| {{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);
Graham Woodward (adaptation)

|{{sortname|Michael|Bakewell}}

|{{sortname|Henric|Hirsch}}

|Annette Crosbie,
Mary Morris,
Ursula Jeans,
Clare Austin,
Nancy Nevinson,
Henry Vidon,
Sheila Whitmill,
Andrea Brett

| {{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}};
Maddalena Fagandini (English version)

|{{sortname|Michael|Bakewell}}

|{{sortname|George R.|Foa|nolink=1}}

|Susan Hampshire,
Robert Hardy,
Eithne Dunne,
Stanley Bates,
Sean Barrett,
Anthony Singleton,
Dennis Edwards,
Harriett JohnsMore usually credited as 'Harriette Johns', according to both the BFI and IMDb websites.

| {{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,
Patrick Tull,
Michael David,
Ronald Hines,
Kate Coleridge,
Mike Arrighi,
John Tordoff,
Edina Ronay

| {{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,
Eileen Atkins,
Derek Smith,
John Nettleton,
Nancie Jackson,
Roger Mutton,
Paul Angelis,
Raymond Armstrong,
Joby Blanshard,
Roy Pearce

| {{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,
Corin Redgrave,
Judy Cornwell,
John Phillips,
Peter Copley,
Ronald Adam,
Alan Shallcross,
Roy Evans,
Peter Pratt,
Michael Hawkins,
Aubrey Morris

| {{dts|22 Apr 1968}}

|Lost

id="The Fanatics"

|5

|20

|data-sort-value="Fanatics, The"|The Fanatics

|{{sortname|Stellio|Lorenzi}} (L'Affaire Calas);
Max Marquis (adaptation)

|{{sortname|Michael|Bakewell}}

|{{sortname|Rudolph|Cartier}}

|Alan Badel,
Leonard Rossiter,
Rosalie Crutchley,
John Paul,
Alex Scott,
Cyril Shaps,
Tom Criddle,
Richard Caldicot,
Hamilton Dyce,
Bernard Hepton,
Gordon Faith,
Michael Mundell,
Edwin Finn,
Robert James,
Royston Tickner,
Milton Reid

| {{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,
Maurice Denham,
John Golightly,
Francesca Annis,
Doris Hare,
Brian Wilde,
Laurie Asprey,
Pamela Pitchford,
Faith Curtis,
Roger Jones,
Antony Webb

| {{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);
Nicholas Bethell (adaptation)

|{{sortname|Michael|Bakewell}}

|{{sortname|John|Gibson|nolink=1}}

|John Ronane,
Peter Jeffrey,
Ann Bell,
Ilona Rodgers,
Michael Bilton,
Peter Marinker,
Philip Bond,
Wesley Murphy,
John Hollis,
David Bowie,
Andrew Robertson

| {{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,
Richard Cornish,
Edwin Richfield,
Joe Melia,
Norman Wynne,
Janet Burnell,
Claire Davenport,
Peter Pratt,
Marion Mathie,
Wilfred Carter,
James Cairncross

| {{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,
Lynn Farleigh,
Catherine Lacey,
Sebastian Shaw,
Brewster Mason,
Clive Swift,
Ian Hogg,
Colin McCormack,
Dallas Adams,
David Ashford,
David Bailie,
Elizabeth Spriggs,
Caroline Hunt,
Tom Georgeson,
Don Henderson,
David Kincaid

| {{dts|3 Jun 1968}}Broadcast in the Theatre 625 timeslot but not billed as such in the Radio Times (according to BBC Genome database), however the BFI lists it under Theatre 625; it was a BBC/RSC production. Repeated 19 February 1970.

|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,
Gordon Jackson,
Louisa Sherman,
Lionel Ngakane,
Charles Hyatt,
Rudolph Walker,
Willie Jonah,
Clifton Jones,
Elroy Josephs

| {{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,
Suzanne Neve,
Tony Vogel,
Brian Cox,
Vickery Turner,
George Murcell,
Martin Potter,
Lesley Roach,
Hira Talfrey,
Patricia Maynard,
Derek Fowlds,
Wolfe Morris

| {{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,
Ronald Lacey,
Guy Deghy,
George Roubicek,
Douglas Ditta,
Donald Burton,
Fabio Galvano

| {{dts|5 Aug 1968}}Repeated as a Wednesday Play on 14 January 1970.

|Colour 625-line vt

See also

References

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