S1.E1 ∙ The Man Upstairs

S01 E01 • Saturday, Jan 4, 1958 • Jan 4

An anthology series of dramatisations of plays.

S1.E2 ∙ The Distaff Side

S01 E02 • Saturday, Jan 11, 1958 • Jan 11

An upper middle-class family is ruled by the ancient and churlish matriarch. Her daughters' marriages are all in jeopardy, with affairs and communions with the dead. It's difficult to find any solitude or sanity in the family.

S1.E3 ∙ Heroes Don't Care

S01 E03 • Saturday, Jan 18, 1958 • Jan 18

S1.E4 ∙ Britannia of Billingsgate

S01 E04 • Saturday, Jan 25, 1958 • Jan 25

S1.E5 ∙ The Corn Is Green

S01 E05 • Saturday, Feb 1, 1958 • Feb 1

A spinster schoolteacher arrives in a Welsh mining valley and discovers a boy genius in her class.

S1.E6 ∙ Design for Murder

S01 E06 • Saturday, Feb 8, 1958 • Feb 8

S1.E7 ∙ My Flesh, My Blood

S01 E07 • Saturday, Feb 15, 1958 • Feb 15

S1.E8 ∙ Ladies in Retirement

S01 E08 • Saturday, Feb 22, 1958 • Feb 22

Ellen Creed struggles to hold down her job as housekeeper-companion to the retired actress Leonora Fiske whilst trying to protect her two disturbed sisters from the threat of incarceration.

S1.E9 ∙ A Likely Tale

S01 E09 • Saturday, Mar 1, 1958 • Mar 1

A dying old man changes his will to leave everything to the new housemaid who has caught his eye, much to the alarm of his three grown up children and grandson.

S1.E10 ∙ And No Birds Sing

S01 E10 • Saturday, Mar 8, 1958 • Mar 8

S1.E11 ∙ Carry On, Admiral

S01 E11 • Saturday, Mar 15, 1958 • Mar 15

The action takes place in a bedroom in a Portsmouth hotel, the wardroom of H.M.S. Sherwood, and the living-room at Admiralty House.

S1.E12 ∙ French Without Tears

S01 E12 • Saturday, Mar 22, 1958 • Mar 22

The love affairs of three young Englishmen at a language cramming school in the south of France. Diana, the sister of one of the boys, arrives in town to flirt with all of her brothers' schoolmates.

S1.E13 ∙ High Heaven

S01 E13 • Saturday, Mar 29, 1958 • Mar 29

S1.E14 ∙ The Ware Case

S01 E14 • Saturday, Apr 5, 1958 • Apr 5

A financier is accused of murder when his brother-in-law is found dead in his garden pond. After winning the court case he returns home to find that his lawyer has romantic inclinations towards his wife.

S1.E15 ∙ The Fourth Wall

S01 E15 • Saturday, Apr 12, 1958 • Apr 12

The host of a dinner party is murdered.

S1.E16 ∙ Dr. Angelus

S01 E16 • Saturday, Apr 19, 1958 • Apr 19

S1.E17 ∙ A Young Affair

S01 E17 • Saturday, Apr 26, 1958 • Apr 26

S1.E18 ∙ The Dover Road

S01 E18 • Saturday, Sep 13, 1958 • Sep 13

A wealthy man lives on the Dover Road, a traditional path of elopers. His practice of forcing such couples to see one another in the sober light of home life in his house leads to a personal involvement for him.

S1.E19 ∙ Day of Retirement

S01 E19 • Saturday, Sep 20, 1958 • Sep 20

S1.E20 ∙ A Private Eye for Pennsylvania

S01 E20 • Saturday, Sep 27, 1958 • Sep 27

S1.E21 ∙ Four for Solitaire

S01 E21 • Saturday, Oct 25, 1958 • Oct 25

S1.E22 ∙ Trespass

S01 E22 • Saturday, Nov 22, 1958 • Nov 22

S1.E23 ∙ The Duke in Darkness

S01 E23 • Saturday, Dec 6, 1958 • Dec 6

A duke imprisoned for 15 years in a castle in France feigns blindness for five years to lull the suspicions of his captors in order to plan his escape.

S1.E24 ∙ The Magistrate

S01 E24 • Saturday, Dec 20, 1958 • Dec 20

A widow weds a magistrate and makes her 19-year-old son act as a boy.

S1.E25 ∙ So Many Children

S01 E25 • Saturday, Dec 27, 1958 • Dec 27

S1.E26 ∙ Trilby

S01 E26 • Saturday, Jan 17, 1959 • Jan 17

in 19th-century Paris, a sinister hypnotist tries to turn a simple Irish girl into an opera star.

S1.E27 ∙ Murder on the Agenda

S01 E27 • Saturday, Feb 14, 1959 • Feb 14

Eynon Evans plays the part of Inspector Probert George, who was tortured in a prisoner-of-war camp when his plans for escape were discovered, is dead after five years in a mental home. His five fellow prisoners had sworn that if George died they would kill the man who had betrayed him to the Germans. But which of them was to do the killing? And how?

S1.E28 ∙ Golden Rain

S01 E28 • Saturday, Feb 28, 1959 • Feb 28

S1.E29 ∙ While the Sun Shines

S01 E29 • Saturday, Mar 28, 1959 • Mar 28

S1.E30 ∙ The Cat and the Canary

S01 E30 • Saturday, May 9, 1959 • May 9

At an old, dark house, on a dark and stormy night, an ill-assorted group of people meet for the reading of a millionaire's will. But there's a madman on the loose.

S1.E31 ∙ The Larford Lad

S01 E31 • Saturday, Jun 20, 1959 • Jun 20

The story of a young boxer's rise to fame.

S1.E32 ∙ Black Chiffon

S01 E32 • Saturday, Jul 4, 1959 • Jul 4

A woman who has an absolutely untarnished reputation unaccountably steals a black-chiffon nightgown days before her son's wedding.

S1.E33 ∙ My Young Brother

S01 E33 • Saturday, Jul 18, 1959 • Jul 18

S1.E34 ∙ Love and Miss Figgis

S01 E34 • Saturday, Aug 1, 1959 • Aug 1

S1.E35 ∙ Unfinished Journey

S01 E35 • Saturday, Aug 8, 1959 • Aug 8

S1.E36 ∙ The Cathedral

S01 E36 • Saturday, Aug 15, 1959 • Aug 15

S1.E37 ∙ Last Day in Dreamland

S01 E37 • Saturday, Aug 29, 1959 • Aug 29

S1.E38 ∙ It Isn't Enough

S01 E38 • Saturday, Sep 26, 1959 • Sep 26

S1.E39 ∙ Haul for the Shore

S01 E39 • Saturday, Oct 24, 1959 • Oct 24

S1.E40 ∙ Bed and Breakfast

S01 E40 • Saturday, Nov 21, 1959 • Nov 21

S1.E41 ∙ The Farmer's Wife

S01 E41 • Saturday, Dec 5, 1959 • Dec 5

After his daughter weds, a middle-aged widower with a profitable farm decides to remarry but finds choosing a suitable mate a problematic process.

S1.E42 ∙ Through a Glass Darkly

S01 E42 • Saturday, Dec 19, 1959 • Dec 19

S1.E43 ∙ Conflict at Kalanadi

S01 E43 • Saturday, Jan 16, 1960 • Jan 16

S1.E44 ∙ The Difficult Age

S01 E44 • Saturday, Jan 30, 1960 • Jan 30

S1.E45 ∙ Going Like a Fox

S01 E45 • Saturday, Feb 13, 1960 • Feb 13

S1.E46 ∙ The Return of Peggy Atherton

S01 E46 • Saturday, Feb 27, 1960 • Feb 27

S1.E47 ∙ Home and the Heart

S01 E47 • Saturday, Mar 12, 1960 • Mar 12

S1.E48 ∙ A Matter of Age

S01 E48 • Saturday, Mar 26, 1960 • Mar 26

S1.E49 ∙ Devonshire Cream

S01 E49 • Saturday, Apr 9, 1960 • Apr 9

S1.E50 ∙ The Country Boy

S01 E50 • Saturday, Apr 23, 1960 • Apr 23