ITV Saturday Night Theatre (Season 5)

The Vamp (Episode 1)

Writer: John Kane

Air date: 1972-10-01

When the Music Stops (Episode 2)

Writer: David Ambrose

Air date: 1972-10-08

When the Wheel Turns (Episode 3)

Writer: John Whitewood

Air date: 1972-10-15

Overview: A man decides to leave his job, sell his home and set out for adventure. But his wife has other ideas.

Ted (Episode 4)

Writer: John Pudney

Air date: 1972-10-22

The Samaritan (Episode 5)

Writer: Peter Terson

Air date: 1972-10-29

Three Months Gone (Episode 6)

Writer: Don Haworth

Air date: 1972-11-05

God Send Sunday (Episode 7)

Writer: Maureen Donegan

Air date: 1972-11-12

First Sight (Episode 8)

Air date: 1972-11-19

Triangles (Episode 9)

Air date: 1972-11-26

The Web (Episode 10)

Writer: Alun Owen

Air date: 1972-12-03

The Guests (Episode 11)

Writer: Ronald Harwood

Air date: 1972-12-10

The Piano Player (Episode 12)

Writer: Alun Owen

Air date: 1972-12-17

The Death of Adolf Hitler (Episode 13)

Writer: Vincent Tilsley

Air date: 1973-01-07

Overview: The final days in the Bunker, with Hitler becoming more and more paranoid, plumbing the depths of his madness and reaching his well deserved fate.

The Staff Room (Episode 14)

Air date: 1973-01-14

Sarah (Episode 15)

Writer: Guy Cullingford

Air date: 1973-01-21

Pleased to Meet You (Episode 16)

Writer: John Nelson-Burton

Air date: 1973-03-25

The Ruffian on the Stair (Episode 17)

Writer: Joe Orton

Air date: 1973-04-01

Overview: Mike and Joyce are a poor London couple living in a bedsit. One day while Joyce is alone, a young man named Wilson arrives and asks for a room.

A.D.A.M. (Episode 18)

Writer: Donald Jonson

Air date: 1973-04-08

Overview: Roger Empson builds a house for his disabled wife Jean that is completely automated and monitored by a computer called A.D.A.M. (Automated Domestic Appliance Monitor). When she was a child, Jean had imagined that her dolls used to love her. Now, events take a nasty turn when Jean starts imagining that A.D.A.M. is falling in love with her.

But Fred, Freud Is Dead (Episode 19)

Writer: Peter Terson

Air date: 1973-04-15

Long Day's Journey Into Night (Episode 20)

Writer: Peter Wood

Air date: 1973-04-22

Overview: On a day in the summer of 1912, the family of retired matinee idol James Tyrone grapples with the morphine addiction of Tyrone's wife Mary, the illness of their youngest son Edmund, and the alcoholism and debauchery of the older son Jamie. As day turns into night, guilt, anger, despair, and regret threaten to destroy the family.

Harlequinade (Episode 21)

Writer: Terence Rattigan

Air date: 1973-04-29

Afternoon at the Festival (Episode 22)

Writer: David Mercer

Air date: 1973-05-06

The Coffee Lace (Episode 23)

Writer: John Bowen

Air date: 1973-05-13

Passengers (Episode 24)

Writer: Susan Pleat

Air date: 1973-05-20

Willy (Episode 25)

Writer: David Cook

Air date: 1973-06-03

Lorna and Ted (Episode 26)

Writer: John Hale

Air date: 1973-06-17

Reckoning Day (Episode 27)

Writer: David Ambrose

Air date: 1973-07-01

Overview: The Coopers and the Nicholsons have been friends for years, but their relationship reaches an unexpected crisis point.

It Only Hurts for a Minute (Episode 28)

Writer: Roger Marshall

Air date: 1973-07-08

Overview: Respected (but out of work and broke) film cameraman Harry Griffin is offered a job to film a blue movie.

The Intruders (Episode 29)

Writer: Adeline Collier

Air date: 1973-07-15

Blinkers (Episode 30)

Writer: Peter Ransley

Air date: 1973-07-22

Free as a Bird (Episode 31)

Writer: Roy Minton

Air date: 1973-07-29

A Question of Everything (Episode 32)

Air date: 1973-08-05