Theatre 625 (Season 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.

  • Poster for Women in Crisis: Husband and Wife

    Women in Crisis: Husband and Wife (Episode 1)

    Writer: Colin Morris

    Air date: 1964-09-20

    Overview: The first of three plays by Colin Morris.

  • Poster for Women in Crisis: With Love and Tears

    Women in Crisis: With Love and Tears (Episode 2)

    Writer: Colin Morris

    Air date: 1964-09-27

    Overview: The second of three plays by Colin Morris.

  • Poster for Women in Crisis: My Grandmother

    Women in Crisis: My Grandmother (Episode 3)

    Writer: Colin Morris

    Air date: 1964-10-04

    Overview: The third of a trilogy by Colin Morris. Paintings by children of the Horncastle School, East Grinstead.

  • Poster for Carried by Storm

    Carried by Storm (Episode 4)

    Writer: Giles Cooper

    Air date: 1964-10-25

  • Poster for Parade's End: Some Do Not

    Parade's End: Some Do Not (Episode 5)

    Writer: John Hopkins

    Air date: 1964-12-06

    Overview: A trilogy by Ford Madox Ford.

  • Poster for Parade's End: No More Parades

    Parade's End: No More Parades (Episode 6)

    Writer: John Hopkins

    Air date: 1964-12-13

    Overview: A trilogy by Ford Madox Ford.

  • Poster for Parade's End: A Man Could Stand Up

    Parade's End: A Man Could Stand Up (Episode 7)

    Air date: 1964-12-20

    Overview: A trilogy by Ford Madox Ford.

  • Poster for The Minister

    The Minister (Episode 8)

    Writer: John O'Toole

    Air date: 1965-01-03

  • Poster for Poor Bitos

    Poor Bitos (Episode 9)

    Writer: Jean Anouilh

    Air date: 1965-02-07

  • Poster for The Physicists

    The Physicists (Episode 10)

    Writer: Friedrich Dürrenmatt

    Air date: 1965-02-14

    Overview: Three patients in a lunatic asylum all claim to be famous physicists. One of them – but which? · actually is a famous physicist, and the agents of a foreign power want his knowledge.

  • Poster for Progress to the Park

    Progress to the Park (Episode 11)

    Writer: Alun Owen

    Air date: 1965-03-14

    Overview: Three plays by Alun Owen.

  • Poster for No Trams to Lime Street

    No Trams to Lime Street (Episode 12)

    Writer: Alun Owen

    Air date: 1965-03-21

    Overview: Three plays by Alun Owen.

  • Poster for A Little Winter Love

    A Little Winter Love (Episode 13)

    Writer: Alun Owen

    Air date: 1965-03-28

    Overview: Three plays by Alun Owen.

  • Poster for Ironhand

    Ironhand (Episode 14)

    Air date: 1965-04-11

    Overview: 16th-century mercenary knight Götz von Berlichingen loses his right hand in battle and has a prosthetic iron hand commissioned.

  • Poster for Try For White

    Try For White (Episode 15)

    Writer: Basil Warner

    Air date: 1965-04-18

  • Poster for Unman, Wittering and Zigo

    Unman, Wittering and Zigo (Episode 16)

    Writer: Giles Cooper

    Air date: 1965-06-27

    Overview: John Ebony begins a new career as a schoolteacher — and begins to suspect certain pupils of murder.

  • Poster for Seek Her Out

    Seek Her Out (Episode 17)

    Writer: Giles Cooper

    Air date: 1965-07-04

    Overview: Anne Follister witnesses an assassination on the London Underground and becomes the next would-be victim of the perpetrators.

  • Poster for The Long House

    The Long House (Episode 18)

    Writer: Giles Cooper

    Air date: 1965-07-11

    Overview: Young couple Ben and Kathie buy the end house in a South London Terrace, only to discover that their neighbours have knocked through all their interior walls to form a single commune, unknown to the outside world. Invited to join this alternative community, Ben and Kathie eventually witness its collapse and final destruction.

Theatre 625

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