Theatre 625 Explained

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.

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.[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.

List of episodes

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.

SeEpTitleAuthorProducerDirectorPerformersUK
Transmission
date
AS/A
11data-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
12data-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
13data-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
14All 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
15All 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
21Women 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
22Women 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
23Women 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
24Carried by StormSimon 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
25Parade'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]
26Parade'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
27Parade'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
28data-sort-value="Minister, The"The MinisterMichael 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
29Poor 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
210data-sort-value="Physicists, The"The Physicists (play), James Kirkup (translation)Mary Morris,
Tom Watson,
Hayden Jones,
John Bennett,
Michael Kilgarriff,
Neil McCarthy
[8] Lost
211Progress 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
212No 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
213data-sort-value="Little Winter Love, A"A Little Winter LoveJack Hedley,
Peter Dyneley,
Lelia Goldoni,
Sylvia Kay,
Mike Pratt,
Artro Morris,
Nerys Hughes
Lost
214Ironhand (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
215Try For WhiteYootha Joyce,
Joss Ackland,
Gary Bond,
Zoe Randall,
Marda Vanne,
Nan Munro,
Maxine Holden
Lost
216Unman, Wittering and ZigoPeter 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
217Seek Her OutToby Robins,
Anthony Newlands,
Zakes Mokae,
Edward Brayshaw,
John Woodvine,
Robert James,
Peter Diamond
35mm tr - reels 2 & 3 only of 3
218data-sort-value="Long House, The"The Long HouseDavid Buck,
Caroline Mortimer,
Toke Townley,
Joan Hickson,
Arthur Pentelow,
Thomas Baptiste,
Sheila Grant,
Frederick Piper,
Winifred Dennis,
John Herrington,
Reg Lever
35mm tr
31Esther's AltarKevin 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
32David, Chapter 2 for the Canadian Broadcasting CorporationDonnelly Rhodes,
Toby Tarnow,
Powys Thomas,
Lynne Gorman
[9] Unknown
33Rosmersholm (play);
Ann Jellicoe (translation)
Peggy Ashcroft,
Knut Wigert,
Mark Dignam,
Angela Baddeley,
Morris Perry,
John Laurie
16mm tr
34Miss Julie (play);
Alan Bridges (adaptation)
Gunnel Lindblom,
Ian Hendry,
Stephanie Bidmead
35mm tr
35Hermit CrabsAnnette Crosbie,
Anthony Booth,
Billy Cornelius,[10]
Clyde Pollitt,
Gladys Henson,
Anne Blake,
Bill Cartwright,
William Moore
Lost
36Enter Solly Gold (play)Bob Monkhouse,
Linda Polan,
Terence Sewards,
Miriam Margolyes,
John Barrard,
Lilly Kann,
Cyril Shaps,
George Layton
35mm tr sequences only
37data-sort-value="Siege of Manchester, The"The Siege of ManchesterAlan 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
38data-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
39data-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
310data-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)
311data-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
312data-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
313data-sort-value="Piece of Resistance, A"A Piece of ResistanceLally Bowers,
William Kendall,
Frederick Jaeger,
James Villiers
[12] Lost
314Doctor 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
315Focus (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
316data-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
317data-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
318data-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
319Kiss on a Grass Green PillowSusannah York,
Zena Walker,
Robert Stephens,
Colin Blakely
Lost
320data-sort-value="Man Like That, A"A Man Like ThatIrene 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
321Simon and LauraMoira Lister,
Ian Carmichael,
Richard Briers,
Henry McGee,
Charles Lloyd-Pack,
Molly Urquhart,
Penny Morrell,
Philo Hauser
[13]
322data-sort-value="Queen and Jackson, The"The Queen and JacksonGeorge Baker,
Jill Dixon,
Madeleine Christie,
Willoughby Goddard,
Sylvia Coleridge,
James Cossins,
Eric Hillyard,
Arthur Hewlett,
Roy Marsden
Lost
323data-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
324data-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
325Twelfth 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
326data-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
327Final DemandKenneth More,
Michael Forrest,[15]
Ken Wynne
Lost
328Semi-Detached (play)Leonard Rossiter,
Alison Leggatt,
Barrie Ingham,
William Kendall
Lost
329She 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
330Up and DownGeorge Baker,
Bernard Archard,
Ann Lynn,
John Collin,
Keith Bell,
Marion Mathie,
John Moore
Lost
331Marianne (novel);
Harry Greene (adaptation)
Nerys Hughes,
Jan Edwards,
Henley Thomas,
Rachel Thomas,
Artro Morris,
Gwyneth Owen,
Salmean Peer
Lost
332data-sort-value="Melody Suit, The"The Melody Suit (words);
Derrick Mason (music)
John Gower,
Patricia Michael,
Michael Maurel
Lost
333On 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
334How to Get Rid of Your HusbandMaurice Denham,
Priscilla Morgan,
Avis Bunnage,
Denise Coffey,
Marcus Hammond,
Margaret Heald,
Winifred Dennis,
Norman Scace,
Keith Anderson,
Richard Hampton,
Malcolm Taylor,
Don McKillop
Lost
335Girl of My DreamsNicholas Pennell,
Chela Matthison,
Edward Fox,
James Grout,
Kathleen Michael,
Anne Brooks,
Jennifer Jayne,
George A. Cooper,
John D. Collins,
Ian Cunningham
35mm tr
41data-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]
42data-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
43data-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
44data-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
45Conquest:
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
46Conquest:
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
47Amerika (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
48data-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
49AnatolRobert Hardy,
John Wood,
Moira Redmond,
Elvi Hale,
Priscilla Morgan
[19]
410data-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
411data-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
412data-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
413data-sort-value="Slight Ache, A"A Slight Ache (play)Maurice Denham,
Hazel Hughes,
Gordon Richardson
625-line VT[20]
414data-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
415data-sort-value="Basement, The"The BasementDerek Godfrey,
Harold Pinter,
Kika Markham
35mm tr
416Hotel 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
417As a Man Grows Older (novel, Senilità);
Barry Bermange (adaptation)
Derek Godfrey,
Peter Blythe,
Hilary Hardiman,
Ilona Rodgers
Lost
418Kain[22] Keith Michell,
J. G. Devlin,
Audine Leith,
Alan White,
Candy Devine,
Roger Cox,
Teddy Plummer,
Michael Williamson
16mm film
419data-sort-value="Loser, The"The LoserBernard Cribbins,
Geraldine Moffatt,[23]
Godfrey Quigley,
Henley Thomas,
Gwendolyn Watts
Lost
420data-sort-value="Winner, The"The WinnerSusannah York,
T. P. McKenna,
Mark Burns
Lost
421data-sort-value="Fantasist, The"The FantasistJames Villiers,
Charlotte Rampling,
Anthony Bate,
Paul Hardwick,
Tim Preece,
Gordon Waller,
Jean Aubrey,
Norman Shelley,
Barbara Couper
Lost
422data-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
423data-sort-value="Blood Knot, The"The Blood Knot (play)Athol Fugard,
Charles Hyatt
16mm tr
424Henry IV (play, Enrico IV);
Robert Muller (adaptation)
Alan Badel,
Maxine Audley,
Anthony Newlands,
Kika Markham,
Neville Jason,
Hamilton Dyce
Murray Melvin
Lost
425Firebrand,
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
426data-sort-value="Plough and the Stars, The"The Plough and the Stars[24]
427Tickle TimesDiana Coupland,
John Stratton,
David Collings,
Keith Bell,
Angela Crow,
Edmond Bennett,
Mike Pratt,
Catherine Howe,
Miriam Raymond,
Kenneth Ives,
Eric Francis,
Keith Anderson
Lost
42855 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
429Stan's Day OutLeslie Dwyer,
Alfie Bass,
Roddy McMillan,
Bryan Pringle,
Michael Robbins
35mm tr
430data-sort-value="Cupboard, The"The CupboardPeter Jeffrey,
Rosemary Leach,
Donald Gee,
Helen Booth,
William Moore,
Charles Lamb,
Ella Milne
Lost
51data-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
52data-sort-value="Lost Years of Brian Hooper, The"The Lost Years of Brian HooperHugh Burden,
Margery Mason
Sheila Reid,
Ray Brooks,
Alan MacNaughtan,
Susan George,
Kate Story,
Carl Forgione,
Edward de Souza,
Peter Jesson
35mm tr
53The Magicians:
Dr Dee, Kelly and the Spirits
Alan Dobie,
Frank Finlay,
John Warner,
Caroline Monkhouse,
Rosemary Hall,
Anthony Kemp,
Mary Peach
Lost
54data-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
55data-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
56data-sort-value="Single Passion, The"The Single PassionAlan 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
57data-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
58Kittens Are BraveGeorge Murcell,
Diana Fairfax,
Geoffrey Bayldon
Lost
59Lieutenant 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
510Play With a Tiger (play)Barbara Jefford,
John Turner,
Michael Gough,
Patricia Lawrence,
Jeremy Burnham,
Sharon Cathness
Lost
511To 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
512To 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
513To 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
514Albinos in BlackGwen Ffrangcon-Davies,
Gerald James,
Meg Wynn Owen,
Emrys Jones,
Pauline Delaney,
John Rees,
Charles Williams,
Sheila Irwin,
Willie Jonah,
Ilario Bisi-Pedro
Lost
515data-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
516data-sort-value="Lady is a Liar, The"The Lady is a Liar

Maddalena Fagandini (English version)
Susan Hampshire,
Robert Hardy,
Eithne Dunne,
Stanley Bates,
Sean Barrett,
Anthony Singleton,
Dennis Edwards,
Harriett Johns[29]
Lost
517To the FrontierDavid Savile,
Patrick Tull,
Michael David,
Ronald Hines,
Kate Coleridge,
Mike Arrighi,
John Tordoff,
Edina Ronay
Lost
518Party GamesFrederick Jaegar,
Eileen Atkins,
Derek Smith,
John Nettleton,
Nancie Jackson,
Roger Mutton,
Paul Angelis,
Raymond Armstrong,
Joby Blanshard,
Roy Pearce
[30] Lost
519data-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
520data-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
521Home, Sweet HoneycombMichael Crawford,
Maurice Denham,
John Golightly,
Francesca Annis,
Doris Hare,
Brian Wilde,
Laurie Asprey,
Pamela Pitchford,
Faith Curtis,
Roger Jones,
Antony Webb
Lost
522data-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
523Life ClassSusan George,
Richard Cornish,
Edwin Richfield,
Joe Melia,
Norman Wynne,
Janet Burnell,
Claire Davenport,
Peter Pratt,
Marion Mathie,
Wilfred Carter,
James Cairncross
Lost
524All'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)
525Wind Versus Polygamy (play)Earl Cameron,
Gordon Jackson,
Louisa Sherman,
Lionel Ngakane,
Charles Hyatt,
Rudolph Walker,
Willie Jonah,
Clifton Jones,
Elroy Josephs
[34] Lost
526data-sort-value="Year of the Sex Olympics, The"The Year of the Sex OlympicsLeonard 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]
527Mille MigliaMichael Bryant,
Ronald Lacey,
Guy Deghy,
George Roubicek,
Douglas Ditta,
Donald Burton,
Fabio Galvano
[37] Colour 625-line vt

See also

Notes and References

  1. 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 here.
  2. Web site: BFI | Features | TV 100 List of Lists. 11 September 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110911083558/http://www.bfi.org.uk/features/tv/100/list/list.php. 11 September 2011.
  3. News: Yesterday's heroes: the lost treasure trove of BBC drama. Lawson. Mark. Mark Lawson. The Guardian. 3 November 2010. 12 September 2012.
  4. Book: Coward . Simon . Down . Richard . Perry . Chris . 2011 . The Kaleidoscope BBC Television Drama Research Guide 1936–2011 . Kaleidoscope Publishing . 2508–2519.
  5. Book: Bently . Lionel . Sherman . Brad . 2014 . Intellectual Property Law . 4th . Oxford University Press . 290–291 . 978-0199645558.
  6. Repeated as a Wednesday Play on 23 June 1965, in place of the postponed Vote, Vote, Vote for Nigel Barton.
  7. Released on DVD in the US, 2013.
  8. Originally transmitted on BBC1 21 December 1963.
  9. http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/7a1218829a0b47b9aae2c903f05dc7dd Details
  10. According to the BFI website, the billing was to Bill Cornelius.
  11. 1984 was not Orwell's preferred rendering, but this production used the numerical form.
  12. Repeated as a Wednesday Play on 19 October 1966.
  13. Originally broadcast 19 November 1964 on BBC2 as a Thursday Theatre.
  14. Repeated as a Play of the Month on BBC1, 17 November 1968.
  15. 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'.
  16. Television version of a production at the Theatre Royal, Bristol.
  17. Released on DVD in The Judi Dench Collection, BBC boxed set.
  18. The 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.
  19. Originally broadcast 18 March 1965 on BBC2 as a Thursday Theatre.
  20. Released on DVD by the BFI in the Pinter at the BBC boxed set, 2019.
  21. Remake of Armchair Theatre: A Night Out (1960).
  22. This was the first joint production between the BBC and the Australian Broadcasting Commission. See the BFI database page.
  23. Credited as 'Moffatt' on this occasion (BFI website).
  24. 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.
  25. Credited as 'Zohra Segal' according to the BFI website.
  26. Repeated as a Wednesday Play on 25 March 1970.
  27. Repeated as a Wednesday Play on 1 April 1970.
  28. Repeated as a Wednesday Play on 8 April 1970.
  29. More usually credited as 'Harriette Johns', according to both the BFI and IMDb websites.
  30. Repeated as a Wednesday Play on 29 April 1970. See the BFI outline page.
  31. The play was later adapted by Alastair Gray as a novel, (1985).
  32. 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.
  33. Web site: All’s Well That Ends Well. British Universities Film and Video Council. 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.
  34. Repeated as a Wednesday Play on 27 May 1970 and as a Play for Today on 1 April 1971.
  35. Repeated as a Wednesday Play on 11 March 1970.
  36. The Year of the Sex Olympics was released on DVD by the BFI in 2003.
  37. Repeated as a Wednesday Play on 14 January 1970.