The Chopping Block

S02 E01 • Sunday, Oct 23, 1960 • Oct 23

Looking for Garrow

S02 E02 • Sunday, Oct 30, 1960 • Oct 30

A Subject of Scandal and Concern

S02 E03 • Sunday, Nov 6, 1960 • Nov 6

A dramatized account of a Victorian cause celebre, written by John Osborne and concerning the true story of the last person in England to be tried for blasphemy. Richard Burton plays John George Holyoake, a social reformer who goes on trial for speaking in public about his atheist views. Rachel Roberts plays his wife, and the programme is introduced by Face to Face inquisitor John Freeman.

The Wind and the Sun

S02 E04 • Sunday, Nov 13, 1960 • Nov 13

The Squeeze

S02 E05 • Sunday, Nov 20, 1960 • Nov 20

Big Tom, a Welsh coal miner, has always been in control of his life; but he finds himself increasingly at odds with his growing son, and even begins to wonder if his wife still loves him.

The Nightwalkers

S02 E06 • Sunday, Nov 27, 1960 • Nov 27

The Assassins

S02 E07 • Sunday, Dec 4, 1960 • Dec 4

Ruthless assassins take over an ordinary suburban home in order to commit a political murder - but where do they come from?

The Song of a March Hare

S02 E08 • Sunday, Dec 11, 1960 • Dec 11

A Time to Fight

S02 E09 • Sunday, Dec 18, 1960 • Dec 18

Tuppence in the Gods

S02 E10 • Sunday, Dec 25, 1960 • Dec 25

Nearer to Heaven

S02 E11 • Sunday, Jan 1, 1961 • Jan 1

Venus Brown

S02 E12 • Sunday, Jan 8, 1961 • Jan 8

Jack Brown is devoted to his much younger wife, Venus; but she's not the goddess he thinks she is.

A Woman Comes Home

S02 E13 • Sunday, Jan 15, 1961 • Jan 15

Will home be the sanctuary Bobbie James needs it to be?

Off Centre

S02 E14 • Sunday, Jan 22, 1961 • Jan 22

Joe Hunter must face up to the reality of his existence, and stop having false ideas about himself and his own importance.

A Kind of Strength

S02 E15 • Sunday, Jan 29, 1961 • Jan 29

The Final Result

S02 E16 • Sunday, Feb 5, 1961 • Feb 5

The Intervener

S02 E17 • Sunday, Feb 12, 1961 • Feb 12

An Inspector Calls

S02 E18 • Sunday, Feb 19, 1961 • Feb 19

The comfortable lives of the wealthy Birling family are disrupted when an inspector calls on them to ask awkward questions about a girl who has committed suicide.

The Mather Story

S02 E19 • Sunday, Feb 26, 1961 • Feb 26

A Reason for Staying

S02 E20 • Sunday, Mar 5, 1961 • Mar 5

An Eastern European general who has fled his native country dreams of returning home - and of gaining military power there.

Old Mick Mack

S02 E21 • Sunday, Mar 12, 1961 • Mar 12

The Wrong Side of the Park

S02 E22 • Sunday, Mar 19, 1961 • Mar 19

Fury in Petticoats

S02 E23 • Sunday, Mar 26, 1961 • Mar 26

Brian Rix Presents #11: A Fair Cop

S02 E24 • Sunday, Apr 2, 1961 • Apr 2

Charley's Aunt

S02 E25 • Sunday, Apr 16, 1961 • Apr 16

Lord Fancourt Babberley is required, much against his will, to impersonate the wealthy aunt of his friend Charley.

Scene of the Accident

S02 E26 • Sunday, Apr 30, 1961 • Apr 30

Marriage Lines

S02 E27 • Sunday, May 14, 1961 • May 14

Brian Rix Presents #12: Wolf's Clothing

S02 E28 • Sunday, May 21, 1961 • May 21

Home at Seven

S02 E29 • Sunday, Jun 4, 1961 • Jun 4

Mr. Preston always gets home from the office at seven o'clock - but tonight he discovers that a whole day has unaccountably gone missing from his life.

A Call on Kuprin: Part 1

S02 E30 • Sunday, Jun 18, 1961 • Jun 18

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?

A Call on Kuprin: Part 2

S02 E31 • Sunday, Jun 25, 1961 • Jun 25

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.

That Lady

S02 E32 • Sunday, Jul 9, 1961 • Jul 9

A one-eyed adventuress at the court of Philip II of Spain becomes embroiled in scandal and intrigue.

Listen James

S02 E33 • Sunday, Jul 23, 1961 • Jul 23

Brian Rix Presents #13: Basinful of the Briny

S02 E34 • Sunday, Aug 6, 1961 • Aug 6

The Winslow Boy

S02 E35 • Sunday, Aug 20, 1961 • Aug 20

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.

Wet Fish

S02 E36 • Sunday, Sep 3, 1961 • Sep 3

The Hasty Heart

S02 E37 • Sunday, Sep 17, 1961 • Sep 17

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. The doctors have told him he needs to remain "for observation". The Colonel takes Sister Parker, the unit head nurse, into his confidence and tells her that the real reason.