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Season 1
Fallen Angels
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/9/1963
Two wives admit to premarital sex and contemplating adultery.
Director: Alan Bromly
Writer: Noël Coward
The Duel
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/16/1963
No description available
Director: Charles Jarrott
Writer: Unknown
I Want to Go Home
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/23/1963
No description available
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
Stephen D
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/30/1963
Dublin in the early twentieth century. Young Stephen Dedalus considers his future.
Director: Anthony Page
Writer: Unknown
The Human Voice
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/6/1963
During a long telephone call to her (much younger) lover, a woman tries to conceal her desperation.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
Krapp's Last Tape
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/13/1963
On Krapp's 69th birthday he reviews a tape recording he made the year he was 39 and makes a new recording commenting on the last 12 months.
Director: Prudence FitzGerald
Writer: Samuel Beckett
The Bald Prima Donna
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/27/1963
There is no prima donna in this play, and if there was one, she wouldn't be bald. Apart from that, what could be more normal?
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
Stalingrad
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 12/4/1963
No description available
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
The Fire Raisers
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 12/11/1963
In an area plagued by mysterious outbursts of arson, two strangers arrive and inveigle their way into the home of a wealthy bourgeois businessman. Are they the fire raisers? Surely they can't be - can they?
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
Little Eyolf
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/18/1963
A writer is trapped in a loveless, unfulfilled marriage to a wealthy woman. The death of their disabled son wreaks havoc on their relationship as they struggle to find redemption for their personal failures.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
The Comedy of Errors
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 1/1/1964
Two unrelated men, strangers to each other, are identical twins - and so, even more confusingly, are their servants.
Director: Peter Duguid
Writer: Unknown
The Respectful Prostitute
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1/8/1964
A prostitute in the Deep South is persuaded not to tell the truth about an injustice involving racial prejudice.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
Lysistrata
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/15/1964
A version of Aristophane's play: Sparta and Athens are in a endless war, but Lisistrata, a beautiful woman has an idea to stop the fight, and convinces all the women to do it: no sex until there is peace.
Director: Prudence FitzGerald
Writer: Aristophanes, Marc Brandel, Patric Dickinson
August for the People
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/22/1964
Sir Augustus Thwaites isn't too keen on all this democracy he keeps hearing about - or is he?
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
The Lady of the Camellias
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 2/12/1964
An innocent young man falls in love with a notorious courtesan.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
Say Nothing
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 2/19/1964
No description available
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
The Master of Santiago
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/26/1964
No description available
Director: Christopher Morahan
Writer: Unknown
Under Milk Wood
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 3/4/1964
One night while the townsfolk wrestle with their dreams, seedy Captain Cat and a stranger walk the streets. Captain Cat is a blind, retired sea captain, recalling memories of drowned shipmates and Rosie Probert, a whore and the one great love of his youth
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
A Florentine Tragedy
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 3/11/1964
No description available
Director: Herbert Wise
Writer: Unknown
The Old Lady Says No! Or Who Wounded Maud McCutcheon?
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 3/18/1964
Denis Johnston's first play took Dublin by storm and laid the foundation of the worldwide reputation of the Dublin Gate Theatre. It takes place in the mind of an actor who is playing the Irish revolutionary Robert Emmet in a traditional patriotic drama. The actor is knocked unconscious by accident and in his reverie he imagines he is Emmet walking the streets of present-day Dublin, confronting the jarring contrast between the myth of Ireland and modern day reality.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
Murder in the Cathedral
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 3/25/1964
T. S. Eliot's portrayal of the assassination of Archbishop Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral in 1170.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
The Inner World of Miss Vaughan
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 4/1/1964
No description available
Director: Gilchrist Calder
Writer: Unknown
Ring Round the Moon
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 4/8/1964
Twin brothers with very different personalities are in conflict over the love of a less than worthy woman. One brother comes up with an ingenious solution to the problem.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
Justin Thyme
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 4/15/1964
Super-cool, super-resourceful, absolutely unbeatable, British secret agent Justin Thyme springs into action.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
John Bull's Other Island
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 4/22/1964
No description available
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
The Life of Galileo
Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 4/29/1964
The researches of Galileo Galilei bring him into conflict with the Papacy - and the Inquisition.
Director: Charles Jarrott
Writer: Unknown
Everyman
Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 5/20/1964
No description available
Director: Michael Hayes
Writer: Unknown
Police
Season 1 Episode 30 - Aired 5/27/1964
In an Eastern European dictatorship, the life of a policeman is not always easy.
Director: Waris Hussein
Writer: Unknown
Six Characters in Search of an Author
Season 1 Episode 31 - Aired 6/3/1964
An absurdist play about the relationship between authors, their characters, and theatre practitioners. In it, the actors, author, and crew interact with the "real characters" who appear on stage during the rehearsal of the play.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
Bloomsday
Season 1 Episode 32 - Aired 6/10/1964
One day in the life of assorted Dubliners, in the summer of 1904.
Director: Henric Hirsch
Writer: James Joyce, Allan McClelland
