Season 1

Season 1

Startime

19 episodes27/10/1959

Episodes

Episode 1
S1 · E1 · 27/10/1959

The Crucible

In the 17th century, a spiteful teenage girl accuses a man of witchcraft.

Episode 2
S1 · E2 · 01/12/1959

A Clearing in the Woods

A young woman who is suicidal has visions of herself at different ages - each incarnation trying to give her life meaning.

Episode 3
S1 · E3 · 08/12/1959

The Secret Agent

A spy in the pay of a foreign power is persuaded against his will to perpetrate an atrocity.

Episode 4
S1 · E4 · 22/12/1959

Pineapple Poll

No synopsis available.

Episode 5
S1 · E5 · 29/12/1959

Summer Time

A lonely American woman unexpectedly finds romance in Venice, Italy.

Episode 6
S1 · E6 · 05/01/1960

The Cocktail Party

Lavinia has left her husband before a cocktail party. They have both had relationships. A foreign guest, Sir Henry, analyzes their marriage and relationship. Will they find their way back to each other again?

Episode 7
S1 · E7 · 26/01/1960

The Gioconda Smile

Arrogant Henry Hutton shouldn't have been so unfeeling towards lonely spinster Janet - when his wife dies, he might need her help.

Episode 8
S1 · E8 · 02/02/1960

The Browning Version

Forced to retire from an English public school. a disliked professor must confront his utter failures as a teacher, a husband, and a man.

Episode 9
S1 · E9 · 09/02/1960

Tiger at the Gates

Strenuous efforts to prevent the Trojan War from taking place eventually come to nothing.

Episode 10
S1 · E10 · 16/02/1960

The Thirteen Clocks

No synopsis available.

Episode 11
S1 · E11 · 23/02/1960

An Enemy of the People

When a doctor finds that his town's water supply has become polluted, he is astonished to find that his determination to broadcast the truth has made him a pariah in the community.

Episode 12
S1 · E12 · 01/03/1960

The Importance of Being Earnest

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

Episode 13
S1 · E13 · 15/03/1960

Candida

A teenage poet falls in love with the much older wife of a clergyman.

Episode 14
S1 · E14 · 19/04/1960

Sir Thomas Beecham Presents Lollipops

No synopsis available.

Episode 15
S1 · E15 · 03/05/1960

The Barber of Seville

No synopsis available.

Episode 16
S1 · E16 · 10/05/1960

Hedda Gabler

Hedda Gabler looks forward only to a life of suffocating dullness in her marriage to an academic she finds boring. But then the writer with whom she once had a tempestuous relationship returns.

Episode 17
S1 · E17 · 17/05/1960

Mr. Arcularis

Mr. Arcularis sets off on a long sea voyage to recuperate from a serious surgical operation. But the strangest things start to happen on board ship.

Episode 18
S1 · E18 · 31/05/1960

A Tongue of Silver

No synopsis available.

Episode 19
S1 · E19 · 07/06/1960

The Zeal of Thy House

No synopsis available.