Genre: | Drama, Anthology, television plays |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Language: | English |
Network: | BBC 2 |
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.
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.[1] 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.[2]
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.[3] 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.
The main source for compiling this list was the BFI Film & TV database. The website's master list is 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 TV Archive website and The Kaleidoscope BBC Television Drama Research Guide, 1936–2011,[4] and are correct as of 8 July 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.[5]
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.
Se | Ep | Title | Author | Producer | Director | Performers | UK Transmission date | AS/A | |
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1 | 1 | data-sort-value="Seekers, The: Heretics, The" | The Seekers: The Heretics | Michael Bryant, Derek Godfrey, Rosemary Leach, Newton Blick, Robert James, Kevin Brennan, David Hutcheson, Ivor Salter, Murray Evans, Joseph Greig, Timothy West | 35mm tr | ||||
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 | 35mm tr | ||||
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 | 35mm tr | ||||
1 | 4 | All the Conspirators: The Ides of March | based on the novel by Thornton Wilder. | Hugh Burden, Tim Preece, Douglas Wilmer, Fenella Fielding, Alexander Davion, Judy Campbell, Anna Middleton, Michael Gough, Declan Mulholland | Lost | ||||
1 | 5 | All the Conspirators: The Just | (play, The Just Assassins) | James Maxwell, Ann Lynn, Lyndon Brook, John Castle, David Buck, Reg Lye, Roland Brand, Robert Eddison, Ruth Dunning | Lost | ||||
2 | 1 | Women in Crisis: Husband and Wife | Wendy Craig, John Ronane, Barry Keegan, Elizabeth Wallace, Alison Leggatt, John Robinson, Michael Goodliffe, Edward Fox, Vivien Heilbron, Richard Brooke | Lost | |||||
2 | 2 | Women in Crisis: With Love and Tears | Katharine Blake, Nigel Green, Alan Baulch, Margot Robinson, Margaret Ward, Margaret Denyer, Michael Brennan, Peter Thornton | [6] | 16mm tr | ||||
2 | 3 | Women in Crisis: My Grandmother | Janina Faye, Dilys Hamlett, Anthony Singleton, Philip Latham, Veronica Turleigh, John Humphry, Paul Farrell, Vi Delmar, Brian Peck, Meriel Hobson | 16mm tr | |||||
2 | 4 | Carried by Storm | 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 | Lost | |||||
2 | 5 | Parade's End: Some Do Not | (novels); John Hopkins (adaptation) | 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 | 16mm tr[7] | ||||
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 | 16mm tr | |||||
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 | 35mm tr | |||||
2 | 8 | data-sort-value="Minister, The" | The Minister | 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 | Lost | ||||
2 | 9 | Poor Bitos | (play, Pauvre Bitos ou le Dîner de têtes); Lucienne Hill (translator) | John Neville, Noel Davis, Rolf Lefebvre, Penelope Horner, Anne Cunningham, Patrick Allen, Geoffrey Chater, James Villiers, Nicholas Pennell, Gemma Jones, Tony Calvin | Lost | ||||
2 | 10 | data-sort-value="Physicists, The" | The Physicists | (play), James Kirkup (translation) | Mary Morris, Tom Watson, Hayden Jones, John Bennett, Michael Kilgarriff, Neil McCarthy | [8] | Lost | ||
2 | 11 | Progress to the Park | (play) | 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 | 16mm tr | ||||
2 | 12 | No Trams to Lime Street | (remake of 1959 TV play) | Mike Pratt, Tom Bell, Anthony Hall, Clifford Evans, Ishaq Bux, Alister Williamson, Islwyn Morris, June Barry | Lost | ||||
2 | 13 | data-sort-value="Little Winter Love, A" | A Little Winter Love | Jack Hedley, Peter Dyneley, Lelia Goldoni, Sylvia Kay, Mike Pratt, Artro Morris, Nerys Hughes | Lost | ||||
2 | 14 | Ironhand | (play Götz von Berlichingen); John Arden (adaptation) | 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 | 16mm tr | ||||
2 | 15 | Try For White | Yootha Joyce, Joss Ackland, Gary Bond, Zoe Randall, Marda Vanne, Nan Munro, Maxine Holden | Lost | |||||
2 | 16 | Unman, Wittering and Zigo | 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 | 35mm tr | |||||
2 | 17 | Seek Her Out | Toby Robins, Anthony Newlands, Zakes Mokae, Edward Brayshaw, John Woodvine, Robert James, Peter Diamond | 35mm tr - reels 2 & 3 only of 3 | |||||
2 | 18 | data-sort-value="Long House, The" | The Long House | David Buck, Caroline Mortimer, Toke Townley, Joan Hickson, Arthur Pentelow, Thomas Baptiste, Sheila Grant, Frederick Piper, Winifred Dennis, John Herrington, Reg Lever | 35mm tr | ||||
3 | 1 | Esther's Altar | 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 | Lost | |||||
3 | 2 | David, Chapter 2 | for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation | Donnelly Rhodes, Toby Tarnow, Powys Thomas, Lynne Gorman | [9] | Unknown | |||
3 | 3 | Rosmersholm | (play); Ann Jellicoe (translation) | Peggy Ashcroft, Knut Wigert, Mark Dignam, Angela Baddeley, Morris Perry, John Laurie | 16mm tr | ||||
3 | 4 | Miss Julie | (play); Alan Bridges (adaptation) | Gunnel Lindblom, Ian Hendry, Stephanie Bidmead | 35mm tr | ||||
3 | 5 | Hermit Crabs | Annette Crosbie, Anthony Booth, Billy Cornelius,[10] Clyde Pollitt, Gladys Henson, Anne Blake, Bill Cartwright, William Moore | Lost | |||||
3 | 6 | Enter Solly Gold | (play) | Bob Monkhouse, Linda Polan, Terence Sewards, Miriam Margolyes, John Barrard, Lilly Kann, Cyril Shaps, George Layton | 35mm tr sequences only | ||||
3 | 7 | data-sort-value="Siege of Manchester, The" | The Siege of Manchester | 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 | Lost | ||||
3 | 8 | data-sort-value="Keep the Aspidistra Flying" | The World of George Orwell: Keep the Aspidistra Flying | (novel); Robin Chapman (adaptation) | 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 | Lost | |||
3 | 9 | data-sort-value="Coming Up for Air" | The World of George Orwell: Coming Up for Air | (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 | Lost | |||
3 | 10 | data-sort-value="1984" | The World of George Orwell: 1984[11] | (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 | NTSC VT of 16mm tr (damage to one scene) | |||
3 | 11 | data-sort-value="Nutter, The" | Portraits From the North: The Nutter | 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 | Lost | ||||
3 | 12 | data-sort-value="Bruno" | Portraits From the North: Bruno | John Phillips, Ronnie Barker, Anne Stallybrass, Hazel Cooper, John Gill, Noel Dyson, Barry Jackson, Susan Hanson, Fred Ferris, Gary Files, Barbara Miller | Lost | ||||
3 | 13 | data-sort-value="Piece of Resistance, A" | A Piece of Resistance | Lally Bowers, William Kendall, Frederick Jaeger, James Villiers | [12] | Lost | |||
3 | 14 | Doctor Knock | (play, Knock ou le Triomphe de la médecine) Harley Granville-Barker (translator) | Mavis Villiers, Leonard Rossiter, John Le Mesurier, Jimmy Gardner, James Grout, Graham Armitage, Robert Gillespie, Patrick Godfrey | 16mm tr | ||||
3 | 15 | Focus | (novel); Ruth Sheale (adaptation) | Vivien Merchant, Ray McAnally, Sydney Tafler, Joss Ackland, Lucille Fenton, Larry Cross, Pearl Catlin, Donald Sutherland, Glenn Beck, Martin Miller | Lost | ||||
3 | 16 | data-sort-value="Chicken Soup with Barley" | The Wesker Trilogy, Part 1: Chicken Soup with Barley | (play) | Margery Mason, Clive Revill, Stanley Meadows, John Allison, Sonia Fraser, Stella Tanner, Harry Landis, David Swift | 35mm tr | |||
3 | 17 | data-sort-value="Roots" | The Wesker Trilogy, Part 2: Roots | (play) | Mary Miller, Gwen Nelson, Ewan Hooper, Doreen Aris, Billy Russell, Brian Cant, Leslie Anderson, Jonathan Holt, Maryann Turner | 35mm tr | |||
3 | 18 | data-sort-value="I'm Talking About Jerusalem" | The Wesker Trilogy, Part 3: I'm Talking About Jerusalem | (play) | Sonia Fraser, Stanley Meadows, Margery Mason, John Allison, John Harvey, Stella Tanner, Hilda Kriseman, Patrick O'Connell, Jeremy Bulloch, Jack Wild | 35mm tr | |||
3 | 19 | Kiss on a Grass Green Pillow | Susannah York, Zena Walker, Robert Stephens, Colin Blakely | Lost | |||||
3 | 20 | data-sort-value="Man Like That, A" | A Man Like That | 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 | 16mm tr | ||||
3 | 21 | Simon and Laura | Moira Lister, Ian Carmichael, Richard Briers, Henry McGee, Charles Lloyd-Pack, Molly Urquhart, Penny Morrell, Philo Hauser | [13] | |||||
3 | 22 | data-sort-value="Queen and Jackson, The" | The Queen and Jackson | George Baker, Jill Dixon, Madeleine Christie, Willoughby Goddard, Sylvia Coleridge, James Cossins, Eric Hillyard, Arthur Hewlett, Roy Marsden | Lost | ||||
3 | 23 | data-sort-value="Month in the Country, A" | A Month in the Country | (play); Elisaveta Fen (translator) | Vivien Merchant, Derek Godfrey, Michele Dotrice, Hywel Bennett, Timothy Darwen, Jan Conrad, Enid Lorimer, Susan Field, Philip Latham, John Baskcomb | 16mm tr | |||
3 | 24 | data-sort-value="Seagull, The" | The Seagull | (play); George Calderon (translation) | Pamela Brown, Niall MacGinnis, Annette Crosbie, Gemma Jones, Robert Stephens, Sydney Tafler, Charles Carson, Robin Phillips | [14] | 16mm tr | ||
3 | 25 | Twelfth Hour | (play, Dvenadtsaty chas); Ariadne Nicolaeff (adaptation) | Clifford Evans, Michael Goodliffe, Sheila Allen, Dudley Foster, Walter Brown, Hannah Gordon, Thelma Ruby, Elizabeth Wallace, William Holmes, Mark Jones, John Barrard | 35mm tr | ||||
3 | 26 | data-sort-value="Queen and the Welshman, The" | The Queen and the Welshman | (play) | Dorothy Tutin, Derek Godfrey, Jeremy Brett, Nicholas Selby, Gordon Whiting, Llewellyn Rees, Fiona Hartford, Charles Thomas, Robert Russell, Jack Wild, Harry Littlewood | 16mm tr | |||
3 | 27 | Final Demand | Kenneth More, Michael Forrest,[15] Ken Wynne | Lost | |||||
3 | 28 | Semi-Detached | (play) | Leonard Rossiter, Alison Leggatt, Barrie Ingham, William Kendall | Lost | ||||
3 | 29 | She Stoops to Conquer[16] | (play) | (for the BBC), Val May (theatre production) | Patrick Stewart, Hazel Hughes, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Gawn Grainger, Anna Carteret | 16mm tr | |||
3 | 30 | Up and Down | George Baker, Bernard Archard, Ann Lynn, John Collin, Keith Bell, Marion Mathie, John Moore | Lost | |||||
3 | 31 | Marianne | (novel); Harry Greene (adaptation) | Nerys Hughes, Jan Edwards, Henley Thomas, Rachel Thomas, Artro Morris, Gwyneth Owen, Salmean Peer | Lost | ||||
3 | 32 | data-sort-value="Melody Suit, The" | The Melody Suit | (words); Derrick Mason (music) | John Gower, Patricia Michael, Michael Maurel | Lost | |||
3 | 33 | On the March to the Sea | (novel); | Joss Ackland, Barrie Ingham, Tony Bill, Tessa Wyatt, Tucker McGuire, Stella Tanner, Lindsay Campbell, Richard James, Peter Madden, Donald Sutherland | NTSC VT of 16mm tr | ||||
3 | 34 | How to Get Rid of Your Husband | Maurice Denham, Priscilla Morgan, Avis Bunnage, Denise Coffey, Marcus Hammond, Margaret Heald, Winifred Dennis, Norman Scace, Keith Anderson, Richard Hampton, Malcolm Taylor, Don McKillop | Lost | |||||
3 | 35 | Girl of My Dreams | Nicholas Pennell, Chela Matthison, Edward Fox, James Grout, Kathleen Michael, Anne Brooks, Jennifer Jayne, George A. Cooper, John D. Collins, Ian Cunningham | 35mm tr | |||||
4 | 1 | data-sort-value="Talking to a Stranger, Part 1" | Talking to a Stranger, Part 1: Anytime You're Ready I'll Sparkle | Judi Dench, Michael Bryant, Maurice Denham, Margery Mason, Emrys James, Timothy Carlton, Calvin Lockhart | 35mm tr[17] | ||||
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 | 35mm tr | ||||
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 | 35mm tr | ||||
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 | 35mm tr | ||||
4 | 5 | Conquest: The Encounter | 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 | Lost | |||||
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 | Lost | |||||
4 | 7 | Amerika | (novel); Hugh Whitemore (adaptation) | 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 | Lost | ||||
4 | 8 | data-sort-value="Family Reunion, The" | The Family Reunion[18] | (play) | Alec McCowen, Mary Morris, Mary Merrall, Janet Suzman, Geoffrey Bayldon, Sylvia Coleridge, Victor Maddern, Maureen Pryor, Nigel Stock | 35mm tr | |||
4 | 9 | Anatol | Robert Hardy, John Wood, Moira Redmond, Elvi Hale, Priscilla Morgan | [19] | |||||
4 | 10 | data-sort-value="Sword of Honour, Part 1" | Sword of Honour, Part One: Men at Arms | (novels); Giles Cooper (adaptation) | 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 | 35mm tr | |||
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 | 35mm tr | ||||
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 | 35mm tr | ||||
4 | 13 | data-sort-value="Slight Ache, A" | A Slight Ache | (play) | Maurice Denham, Hazel Hughes, Gordon Richardson | 625-line VT[20] | |||
4 | 14 | data-sort-value="Night Out, A" | A Night Out[21] | (play) | Tony Selby, Anna Wing, Avril Elgar, John Castle, Richard Moore, Peter Pratt, Kevin Barry, Billy Russell, Patrick Cato, Sydney Arnold, Chris Chittell | 625-line VT | |||
4 | 15 | data-sort-value="Basement, The" | The Basement | Derek Godfrey, Harold Pinter, Kika Markham | 35mm tr | ||||
4 | 16 | Hotel Torpe | (play) | 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 | Lost | ||||
4 | 17 | As a Man Grows Older | (novel, Senilità); Barry Bermange (adaptation) | Derek Godfrey, Peter Blythe, Hilary Hardiman, Ilona Rodgers | Lost | ||||
4 | 18 | Kain[22] | Keith Michell, J. G. Devlin, Audine Leith, Alan White, Candy Devine, Roger Cox, Teddy Plummer, Michael Williamson | 16mm film | |||||
4 | 19 | data-sort-value="Loser, The" | The Loser | Bernard Cribbins, Geraldine Moffatt,[23] Godfrey Quigley, Henley Thomas, Gwendolyn Watts | Lost | ||||
4 | 20 | data-sort-value="Winner, The" | The Winner | Susannah York, T. P. McKenna, Mark Burns | Lost | ||||
4 | 21 | data-sort-value="Fantasist, The" | The Fantasist | James Villiers, Charlotte Rampling, Anthony Bate, Paul Hardwick, Tim Preece, Gordon Waller, Jean Aubrey, Norman Shelley, Barbara Couper | Lost | ||||
4 | 22 | data-sort-value="Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, The" | The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists | (novel); Stuart Douglas (adaptation) | 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 | Lost | |||
4 | 23 | data-sort-value="Blood Knot, The" | The Blood Knot | (play) | Athol Fugard, Charles Hyatt | 16mm tr | |||
4 | 24 | Henry IV | (play, Enrico IV); Robert Muller (adaptation) | Alan Badel, Maxine Audley, Anthony Newlands, Kika Markham, Neville Jason, Hamilton Dyce Murray Melvin | Lost | ||||
4 | 25 | Firebrand | , Scot Finch | 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 | 16mm tr | ||||
4 | 26 | data-sort-value="Plough and the Stars, The" | The Plough and the Stars | [24] | |||||
4 | 27 | Tickle Times | Diana Coupland, John Stratton, David Collings, Keith Bell, Angela Crow, Edmond Bennett, Mike Pratt, Catherine Howe, Miriam Raymond, Kenneth Ives, Eric Francis, Keith Anderson | Lost | |||||
4 | 28 | 55 Columns | (novel); James Brabazon (adaptation) | , Shivendra Sinha (co-director) | Edward de Souza, Rani Dubä, Lalita Ahmed, Roshan Seth, Zohra Segal,[25] Bakshi Prem, Chitra Neogy, Esmë Sen, Devi Shah, Kelyani Sitaram | 35mm film sequences exist | |||
4 | 29 | Stan's Day Out | Leslie Dwyer, Alfie Bass, Roddy McMillan, Bryan Pringle, Michael Robbins | 35mm tr | |||||
4 | 30 | data-sort-value="Cupboard, The" | The Cupboard | Peter Jeffrey, Rosemary Leach, Donald Gee, Helen Booth, William Moore, Charles Lamb, Ella Milne | Lost | ||||
5 | 1 | data-sort-value="Memorandum, The" | The Memorandum | (play); Vera Blackwell (translation/adaptation) | Alfred Marks, Warren Mitchell, Hattie Jacques, Judy Cornwell, Robert Eddison, Murray Melvin, John Sharp, Ronnie Stevens, Patsy Rowlands, Sydney Bromley | Lost | |||
5 | 2 | data-sort-value="Lost Years of Brian Hooper, The" | The Lost Years of Brian Hooper | Hugh Burden, Margery Mason Sheila Reid, Ray Brooks, Alan MacNaughtan, Susan George, Kate Story, Carl Forgione, Edward de Souza, Peter Jesson | 35mm tr | ||||
5 | 3 | The Magicians: Dr Dee, Kelly and the Spirits | Alan Dobie, Frank Finlay, John Warner, Caroline Monkhouse, Rosemary Hall, Anthony Kemp, Mary Peach | Lost | |||||
5 | 4 | data-sort-value="Magicians, The: Incantation of Casanova, The" | The Magicians: The Incantation of Casanova | Jeremy Brett, Antony Webb Geoffrey Bayldon, Anne Cunningham, Patrick O'Connell, Jacqueline Pearce, Daphne Anderson, George Selway | 35mm tr | ||||
5 | 5 | data-sort-value="Magicians, The: Edmund Gurney and the Brighton Mesmerist" | The Magicians: Edmund Gurney and the Brighton Mesmerist | Richard Todd, Ray Brooks, Anthony Bate, Lynda Baron, Diana Fairfax, John Barcroft, Barry Wilsher, Roger Kemp, John Baker, John Gill | Lost | ||||
5 | 6 | data-sort-value="Single Passion, The" | The Single Passion | 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 | Lost | ||||
5 | 7 | data-sort-value="Burning Bush, The" | The Burning Bush | (play); John Hopkins (adaptation) | Emlyn Williams, Alan Keith, Peter Copley, Peter Woodthorpe, Stephen Murray, Marjorie Rhodes, Daphne Slater, Ronald Lacey | Lost | |||
5 | 8 | Kittens Are Brave | George Murcell, Diana Fairfax, Geoffrey Bayldon | Lost | |||||
5 | 9 | Lieutenant Tenant | (play) | 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 | Lost | ||||
5 | 10 | Play With a Tiger | (play) | Barbara Jefford, John Turner, Michael Gough, Patricia Lawrence, Jeremy Burnham, Sharon Cathness | Lost | ||||
5 | 11 | To See How Far It Is: Murphy's Law | Nigel Davenport, Norman Rodway, Ronald Hines, Donald Gee, Rhoda Lewis, John Bryans, Philip Bond, Arthur Cox, Dorothy Edwards | [26] | 16mm tr | ||||
5 | 12 | To See How Far It Is: The Curse of the Donkins | Nigel Davenport, Norman Rodway, Stephanie Bidmead, John Bryans, Fiona Walker, Jill Melford, Clive Francis, Gareth Robinson, Richard Armour | [27] | 16mm tr | ||||
5 | 13 | To See How Far It Is: To See How Far It Is | 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 | [28] | 16mm tr | ||||
5 | 14 | Albinos in Black | Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, Gerald James, Meg Wynn Owen, Emrys Jones, Pauline Delaney, John Rees, Charles Williams, Sheila Irwin, Willie Jonah, Ilario Bisi-Pedro | Lost | |||||
5 | 15 | data-sort-value="Swallow's Nest, The" | The Swallow's Nest | (play, The Cell); Graham Woodward (adaptation) | Annette Crosbie, Mary Morris, Ursula Jeans, Clare Austin, Nancy Nevinson, Henry Vidon, Sheila Whitmill, Andrea Brett | Lost | |||
5 | 16 | data-sort-value="Lady is a Liar, The" | The Lady is a Liar |
| Susan Hampshire, Robert Hardy, Eithne Dunne, Stanley Bates, Sean Barrett, Anthony Singleton, Dennis Edwards, Harriett Johns[29] | Lost | |||
5 | 17 | To the Frontier | David Savile, Patrick Tull, Michael David, Ronald Hines, Kate Coleridge, Mike Arrighi, John Tordoff, Edina Ronay | Lost | |||||
5 | 18 | Party Games | Frederick Jaegar, Eileen Atkins, Derek Smith, John Nettleton, Nancie Jackson, Roger Mutton, Paul Angelis, Raymond Armstrong, Joby Blanshard, Roy Pearce | [30] | Lost | ||||
5 | 19 | data-sort-value="Fall of Kelvin Walker, The" | The Fall of Kelvin Walker[31] | Harry H. Corbett, Corin Redgrave, Judy Cornwell, John Phillips, Peter Copley, Ronald Adam, Alan Shallcross, Roy Evans, Peter Pratt, Michael Hawkins, Aubrey Morris | Lost | ||||
5 | 20 | data-sort-value="Fanatics, The" | The Fanatics | (L'Affaire Calas); Max Marquis (adaptation) | 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 | Colour 35mm telerecording | |||
5 | 21 | Home, Sweet Honeycomb | Michael Crawford, Maurice Denham, John Golightly, Francesca Annis, Doris Hare, Brian Wilde, Laurie Asprey, Pamela Pitchford, Faith Curtis, Roger Jones, Antony Webb | Lost | |||||
5 | 22 | data-sort-value="Pistol Shot, The" | The Pistol Shot | (short story); Nicholas Bethell (adaptation) | John Ronane, Peter Jeffrey, Ann Bell, Ilona Rodgers, Michael Bilton, Peter Marinker, Philip Bond, Wesley Murphy, John Hollis, David Bowie, Andrew Robertson | Lost | |||
5 | 23 | Life Class | Susan George, Richard Cornish, Edwin Richfield, Joe Melia, Norman Wynne, Janet Burnell, Claire Davenport, Peter Pratt, Marion Mathie, Wilfred Carter, James Cairncross | Lost | |||||
5 | 24 | All's Well That Ends Well | (play), adapted by John Barton | (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 | [32] | Only the first hour survives,[33] on 625-line VT (held by BFI) | ||
5 | 25 | Wind Versus Polygamy | (play) | Earl Cameron, Gordon Jackson, Louisa Sherman, Lionel Ngakane, Charles Hyatt, Rudolph Walker, Willie Jonah, Clifton Jones, Elroy Josephs | [34] | Lost | |||
5 | 26 | data-sort-value="Year of the Sex Olympics, The" | The Year of the Sex Olympics | Leonard Rossiter, Suzanne Neve, Tony Vogel, Brian Cox, Vickery Turner, George Murcell, Martin Potter, Lesley Roach, Hira Talfrey, Patricia Maynard, Derek Fowlds, Wolfe Morris | [35] | 16mm tr[36] | |||
5 | 27 | Mille Miglia | Michael Bryant, Ronald Lacey, Guy Deghy, George Roubicek, Douglas Ditta, Donald Burton, Fabio Galvano | [37] | Colour 625-line vt |