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Season 1
N/A/100 votesTwentieth Century Theatre: The White Guard
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 1/31/1960
It is November 1918 and the scene is the city of Kiev in the Ukraine, lately garrisoned by the German Army of Occupation but now threatened by the approach of a large well-equipped army of Cossacks. There's no ammunition and food is desperately short in the city. But still attempts are made to raise an army of citizens to repel the invaders. Describing the impact of the collapse of the Tsarist Empire on a family of officers, this play centres on Alexei Turbin, Colonel of the White Guard, responsible for defending Kiev, and on his beautiful sister Helena, deserted by her husband and in love with a young lieutenant, Leonid Schervinsky.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
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Twentieth Century Theatre: The Fanatics
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 3/13/1960
No description available
Director: Unknown
Writer: Miles Malleson
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Summer Theatre: The Critical Point
Season 1 Episode 31 - Aired 7/31/1960
Dr. Gage, involved in cryogenics, volunteers to be the first frozen man after murdering his wife. Dr. Mortimer discovers who killed his wife and ponders whether he should play judge and jury by switching Dr. Gage's freezing machine off?
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
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Summer Theatre: The Devil's General
Season 1 Episode 33 - Aired 8/14/1960
General Harras, a hero of the First World War, finds himself increasingly at odds with the new Germany of Adolf Hitler.
Director: Rudolph Cartier
Writer: R. Gore Brown, Carl Zuckmayer
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She Stoops to Conquer
Season 1 Episode 86 - Aired 11/26/1961
Hardcastle, a man of substance, looks forward to acquainting his daughter with his old pal's son with a view to marriage. But thanks to playboy Lumpkin, he's mistaken by his prospective son-in-law Marlow for an innkeeper, his daughter for the local barmaid. The good news is, while Marlow can barely speak to a woman of quality he's a charmer with those of a different stamp.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
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The Hasty Heart
Season 1 Episode 95 - Aired 9/17/1961
It's 1945, Burma, the day the war is over! For many this means they've survived and will be going home. But not for everyone. A Scottish soldier, Corporal Lachlan "Lachie" MacLachlan is the victim of a wound to the lower back on this day. He's moved to a M.A.S.H. unit and undergoes surgery. As time goes by he begins to recover and watches, in dismay as soldiers pack up and head for home.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
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The Winslow Boy
Season 1 Episode 97 - Aired 8/20/1961
The Winslow family return from church to their house in South Kensington on a summer morning in 1912 not knowing how their lives will be altered by their son, Ronnie, who has been expelled from Naval College for stealing a five shilling postal order.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
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A Call on Kuprin: Part 1
Season 1 Episode 100 - Aired 6/18/1961
After the manned satellite, the armed satellite. Kuprin, the Soviet scientist, is working on a warhead for the Chelovyek. But Laye-Parker, M.P., and Smith, a Lobby Correspondent at the House of Commons, remember him at Cambridge before the war as an Anglophile married to an English woman. Can they, by a personal approach, persuade him to return to this country?
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
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A Call on Kuprin: Part 2
Season 1 Episode 101 - Aired 6/25/1961
Laye-Parker, M.P., and Smith, a Lobby Correspondent, have reached Moscow in their search for Kuprin, a Soviet rocket expert whom they knew at Cambridge and whom they hope to persuade to return to England. Now Laye-Parker has been arrested by the M.V.D. on unspecified charges, and Smith, a reluctant partner in the enterprise, must carry on the search alone.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
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Home at Seven
Season 1 Episode 102 - Aired 6/4/1961
Home at seven as usual after just another Monday at the office - or that is what Mr. Preston thought. But in fact it is Tuesday and he has no recollection of the past twenty-four hours. It soon becomes vital to fill this gap in his memory.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
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Scene of the Accident
Season 1 Episode 105 - Aired 4/30/1961
When a prominent Q.C. is knocked down and killed by a car, the driver's Insurance Company is faced with paying out on a very substantial claim. Briefed to investigate possible grounds for disputing liability, Sam Holford unearths a delicate and intriguing situation.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
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Fury in Petticoats
Season 1 Episode 108 - Aired 3/26/1961
It is 1837 and we are in the home of the Rev. William Dill, the vicar of a small parish in England. Life there is peaceful and leisurely until one day the vicar welcomes into his household a native girl brought from Tierra del Fuego by a Mr. Charles Darwin....
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
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The Mather Story
Season 1 Episode 112 - Aired 2/26/1961
A serious accusation by a famous artist about the work of another gives John Ramsay a chance to 'get something into the paper' and perhaps to keep his job on the Sunday Herald. But rapidly the story becomes a challenge-to his skill, and to his responsibility.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
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An Inspector Calls
Season 1 Episode 113 - Aired 2/19/1961
Spring, 1912 - for the wealthy a time of good living, gaiety, and a belief in the unshakability of the status quo. Mr. and Mrs. Birling are celebrating the engagement of their daughter Sheila to Gerald Croft, heir to a title; it is the pinnacle of Mr. Birling's successful rise in society.....
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
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The Final Result
Season 1 Episode 115 - Aired 2/5/1961
John Horner's father, mother, and sister are waiting to hear the result of his degree examination. He is the only one who is not surprised: it is what he expected it to be. It is this result, and the action John takes as a consequence, which reveals, nakedly, the conflict within this family group.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
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Off Centre
Season 1 Episode 117 - Aired 1/22/1961
Joe Hunter is a scientist living two lives: one as he sees himself, and the other as the world, sees him. The story spans the years from 1917, when he was a young pilot in the Royal Flying Corps, to the present day - when the man and his ideas come into headlong collision.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
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A Woman Comes Home
Season 1 Episode 118 - Aired 1/15/1961
Home has many meanings; a refuge from strain, the start of 'growing up'; the source of compassion and understanding. When these are lost there is desolation, but if they are fought for, no matter with what human frailty, life may grow again out of a new wisdom.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
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Looking for Garrow
Season 1 Episode 122 - Aired 10/30/1960
American business woman Clarissa comes to England seeking one J.S. Garrow - author of an alarmingly frank new novel. But it looks as though her teenage daughter has already found Garrow - and he is franker and more alarming than his book!
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
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The Wind and the Sun
Season 1 Episode 124 - Aired 11/13/1960
Ruth and Lewis Miller's marriage is almost at breaking point. The result upon their two children of the tension created by this situation is revealed in the play as an important question in modern life. The play is not regarded as suitable for viewing by children.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
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The Assassins
Season 1 Episode 127 - Aired 12/4/1960
A quiet evening at home for a normal fairly prosperous middle-class family is suddenly disrupted by the arrival of two strangers - two men with a mission, fanatical and ruthless, prepared to kill if necessary; but these men are not criminals-they would be described by some as patriots.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown