Theatre 625 (Season 5)

The Memorandum (Episode 1)

Air date: 1967-09-24

The Lost Years of Brian Hooper (Episode 2)

Writer: Bernard Kops

Air date: 1967-10-08

The Magicians: Dr Dee, Kelly and the Spirits (Episode 3)

Writer: Ken Taylor

Air date: 1967-10-15

The Magicians: The Incantation of Casanova (Episode 4)

Writer: Ken Taylor

Air date: 1967-10-22

The Magicians: Edmund Gurney and the Brighton Mesmerist (Episode 5)

Writer: Ken Taylor

Air date: 1967-10-29

The Single Passion (Episode 6)

Writer: Ronald Eyre

Air date: 1967-11-05

The Burning Bush (Episode 7)

Writer: John Hopkins

Air date: 1967-11-12

Kittens Are Brave (Episode 8)

Writer: Giles Cooper

Air date: 1967-11-26

Lieutenant Tenant (Episode 9)

Writer: Pierre Gripari

Air date: 1967-12-04

Play with a Tiger (Episode 10)

Writer: Doris Lessing

Air date: 1967-12-18

To See How Far It Is: Murphy's Law (Episode 11)

Writer: Alan Plater

Air date: 1968-01-01

Runtime: 75 min

Overview: Murphy is a humble pen-pusher in a cardboard box factory who tries to brighten his life with home movies, tape-recording, and homemade wine. But success can come from failure...

To See How Far It Is: The Curse of the Donkins (Episode 12)

Writer: Alan Plater

Air date: 1968-01-08

To See How Far It Is: To See How Far It Is (Episode 13)

Writer: Alan Plater

Air date: 1968-01-15

Albinos in Black (Episode 14)

Writer: Alun Richards

Air date: 1968-01-22

The Swallow's Nest (Episode 15)

Writer: Graham Woodward

Air date: 1968-01-29

The Lady Is a Liar (Episode 16)

Writer: Diego Fabbri

Air date: 1968-02-26

Runtime: 90 min

To the Frontier (Episode 17)

Writer: Giles Cooper

Air date: 1968-03-04

Party Games (Episode 18)

Writer: Hugh Whitemore

Air date: 1968-03-11

Runtime: 75 min

Overview: A German businessman develops an obsessive passion for a girl he picks up in an East End pub. But she, and her brother, are playing their own game.

The Fall of Kelvin Walker (Episode 19)

Writer: Alasdair Gray

Air date: 1968-04-22

The Fanatics (Episode 20)

Air date: 1968-04-29

Overview: An account of the famous 'Calas case', in which Voltaire managed, at great personal risk, to set right an injustice.

Home, Sweet Honeycomb (Episode 21)

Writer: Bernard Kops

Air date: 1968-05-13

Overview: Anyone who doesn't conform to bourgeois norms in a post-apocalyptic world is ritually executed.

The Pistol Shot (Episode 22)

Writer: Nicholas Bethell

Air date: 1968-05-20

The Life Class (Episode 23)

Writer: Malcolm Quantrill

Air date: 1968-05-27

All's Well That Ends Well (Episode 24)

Air date: 1968-06-03

Overview: A woman is given in marriage to the man she longs for, but, because she's of lower rank, he refuses to accept. It becomes her challenge to win his acceptance.

Wind Versus Polygamy (Episode 25)

Writer: Obi Egbuna

Air date: 1968-07-15

Runtime: 75 min

Overview: When Councillor Ogidi and Mr Madu come to Chief Ozuomba's court, both wanting to marry Elina, the Chief sees his chance to oppose the new anti-polygamy law.

The Year of the Sex Olympics (Episode 26)

Writer: Nigel Kneale

Air date: 1968-07-29

Runtime: 105 min

Overview: In a future where the world is dominated and run by television, where language has become almost redundant and all 'tensions' - love, war, hate, loyalty - have been removed, overpopulation is a problem, so there are gluttony programmes to put people off food and pornography programmes to put them off sex. There is artsex and sportsex, and now this - the year of the Sex Olympics. Audience attention begins to wane, however, until TV executive Ugo Priest works on a new concept - a reality-based programme in which a couple is stranded on a bleak island, without the aid of any modern technology, and their efforts to survive filmed twenty-four hours a day.

Mille Miglia (Episode 27)

Writer: Athol Fugard

Air date: 1968-08-05