Theatre 625 (1964)
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.
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Episode 1 - Talking to a Stranger, Part 1: Anytime You're Ready I'll Sparkle
Release Date: 1966-10-02Over the course of a single weekend, the Stevens family's lives will change forever.
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Episode 2 - Talking to a Stranger, Part 2: No Skill or Special Knowledge is Required
Release Date: 1966-10-09Over the course of a single weekend, the Stevens family's lives will change forever.
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Episode 3 - Talking to a Stranger, Part 3: Gladly My Cross-Eyed Bear
Release Date: 1966-10-16Over the course of a single weekend, the Stevens family's lives will change forever.
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Episode 4 - Talking to a Stranger, Part 4: The Innocent Must Suffer
Release Date: 1966-10-23Over the course of a single weekend, the Stevens family's lives will change forever.
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Episode 5 - Conquest: The Encounter
Release Date: 1966-10-29 -
Episode 6 - Conquest: The Leopard and the Dragon
Release Date: 1966-10-30 -
Episode 7 - Amerika
Release Date: 1966-11-06After a minor scandal involving a servant girl, young Karl is packed off to America, a land he finds distinctly strange.
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Episode 8 - The Family Reunion
Release Date: 1966-11-27Dark secrets emerge when a family gathers for a birthday party at their country house.
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Episode 9 - Anatol
Release Date: 1966-12-04 -
Episode 10 - Sword of Honour, Part 1: Men at Arms
Release Date: 1967-01-02Prevented by his strict Roman Catholicism from divorcing his faithless wife, Guy Crouchback prepares for war in 1939.
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Episode 11 - Sword of Honour, Part 2: Officers and Gentlemen
Release Date: 1967-01-09As he journeys through the Second World War, Crouchback undergoes various grotesque adventures, both comic and tragic.
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Episode 12 - Sword of Honour, Part 3: Unconditional Surrender
Release Date: 1967-01-16At the end of the war, Crouchback ponders his future.
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Episode 13 - A Slight Ache
Release Date: 1967-02-06Married couple Edward and Flora explore their dreams and desires, primarily Edward's fears of the unknown, of aging, and of the 'Other' as a threat to his self-identity.
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Episode 14 - A Night Out
Release Date: 1967-02-13Albert, a shy and repressed young man who lives with his mother, is persuaded to go for 'a night out' with his workmates; it turns nightmarish.
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Episode 15 - The Basement
Release Date: 1967-02-20An uneasy friendship between an introspective loner and a more gregarious man is renewed when the latter turns up at the former's basement flat one rainy night accompanied by an enigmatic, beautiful, mostly silent, girlfriend.
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Episode 16 - Hotel Torpe
Release Date: 1967-03-13 -
Episode 17 - As a Man Grows Older
Release Date: 1967-04-03 -
Episode 18 - Kain
Release Date: 1967-04-17Brothers Kain and Rattler Sutherland live on a Northern Territory station. The unstable Kain clashes with the more laid-back Rattler over several issues - money, treatment of local Blacks, cattle, but most of all, their Aboriginal housemaid, Kaita, whom Kain is convinced Rattler has impregnated.
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Episode 19 - The Loser
Release Date: 1967-05-01 -
Episode 20 - The Winner
Release Date: 1967-05-08 -
Episode 21 - The Fantasist
Release Date: 1967-05-15 -
Episode 22 - The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
Release Date: 1967-05-29 -
Episode 23 - The Blood Knot
Release Date: 1967-06-12 -
Episode 24 - Henry IV
Release Date: 1967-06-26In twentieth-century Italy, a man insists that he is Enrico Quattro, an Italian monarch from centuries before. Obviously, he's a madman - isn't he?
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Episode 25 - Firebrand
Release Date: 1967-07-02 -
Episode 26 - The Plough and the Stars
Release Date: 1967-07-16A husband clashes with his wife over his membership to the Irish citizen army.
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Episode 27 - Tickle Times
Release Date: 1967-07-30 -
Episode 28 - 55 Columns
Release Date: 1967-08-06 -
Episode 29 - Stan's Day Out
Release Date: 1967-08-13 -
Episode 30 - The Cupboard
Release Date: 1967-08-20