Theatre 625 (Season 4)

Talking to a Stranger, Part 1: Anytime You're Ready I'll Sparkle (Episode 1)

Writer: John Hopkins

Air date: 1966-10-02

Runtime: 90 min

Overview: Over the course of a single weekend, the Stevens family's lives will change forever.

Talking to a Stranger, Part 2: No Skill or Special Knowledge is Required (Episode 2)

Writer: John Hopkins

Air date: 1966-10-09

Runtime: 90 min

Overview: Over the course of a single weekend, the Stevens family's lives will change forever.

Talking to a Stranger, Part 3: Gladly My Cross-Eyed Bear (Episode 3)

Writer: John Hopkins

Air date: 1966-10-16

Runtime: 90 min

Overview: Over the course of a single weekend, the Stevens family's lives will change forever.

Talking to a Stranger, Part 4: The Innocent Must Suffer (Episode 4)

Writer: John Hopkins

Air date: 1966-10-23

Runtime: 90 min

Overview: Over the course of a single weekend, the Stevens family's lives will change forever.

Conquest: The Encounter (Episode 5)

Writer: Brian Rawlinson

Air date: 1966-10-29

Conquest: The Leopard and the Dragon (Episode 6)

Writer: Brian Rawlinson

Air date: 1966-10-30

Amerika (Episode 7)

Writer: Hugh Whitemore

Air date: 1966-11-06

Runtime: 120 min

Overview: After a minor scandal involving a servant girl, young Karl is packed off to America, a land he finds distinctly strange.

The Family Reunion (Episode 8)

Writer: T. S. Eliot

Air date: 1966-11-27

Overview: Dark secrets emerge when a family gathers for a birthday party at their country house.

Anatol (Episode 9)

Writer: Arthur Schnitzler

Air date: 1966-12-04

Sword of Honour, Part 1: Men at Arms (Episode 10)

Writer: Giles Cooper

Air date: 1967-01-02

Overview: Prevented by his strict Roman Catholicism from divorcing his faithless wife, Guy Crouchback prepares for war in 1939.

Sword of Honour, Part 2: Officers and Gentlemen (Episode 11)

Writer: Giles Cooper

Air date: 1967-01-09

Overview: As he journeys through the Second World War, Crouchback undergoes various grotesque adventures, both comic and tragic.

Sword of Honour, Part 3: Unconditional Surrender (Episode 12)

Writer: Giles Cooper

Air date: 1967-01-16

Overview: At the end of the war, Crouchback ponders his future.

A Slight Ache (Episode 13)

Writer: Harold Pinter

Air date: 1967-02-06

Runtime: 58 min

Overview: Married 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.

A Night Out (Episode 14)

Writer: Harold Pinter

Air date: 1967-02-13

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: Albert, 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.

The Basement (Episode 15)

Writer: Harold Pinter

Air date: 1967-02-20

Runtime: 55 min

Overview: An 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.

Hotel Torpe (Episode 16)

Writer: François Billetdoux

Air date: 1967-03-13

As a Man Grows Older (Episode 17)

Writer: Barry Bermange

Air date: 1967-04-03

Kain (Episode 18)

Writer: Alan Poolman

Air date: 1967-04-17

Overview: Brothers 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.

The Loser (Episode 19)

Writer: Alun Owen

Air date: 1967-05-01

The Winner (Episode 20)

Writer: Alun Owen

Air date: 1967-05-08

The Fantasist (Episode 21)

Writer: Alun Owen

Air date: 1967-05-15

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (Episode 22)

Air date: 1967-05-29

The Blood Knot (Episode 23)

Writer: Athol Fugard

Air date: 1967-06-12

Henry IV (Episode 24)

Writer: Robert Muller

Air date: 1967-06-26

Overview: In 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?

Firebrand (Episode 25)

Writer: Roger Manvell

Air date: 1967-07-02

The Plough and the Stars (Episode 26)

Writer: Sean O'Casey

Air date: 1967-07-16

Overview: A husband clashes with his wife over his membership to the Irish citizen army.

Tickle Times (Episode 27)

Writer: Julia Jones

Air date: 1967-07-30

55 Columns (Episode 28)

Writer: James Brabazon

Air date: 1967-08-06

Stan's Day Out (Episode 29)

Writer: Rhys Adrian

Air date: 1967-08-13

The Cupboard (Episode 30)

Writer: Maggie Ross

Air date: 1967-08-20