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Oct 6, 1965
Written, directed, and produced by Peter Watkins. Depicting the aftermath of a nuclear war, it was withdrawn from the broadcast schedule due to fear by the BBC and the British Government that it was too horrifying for TV. It premiered at a London cinema six months later and was shown at film festivals, winning a special prize at the Venice Film Festival. It then won the 1967 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
Oct 13, 1965
In this look at Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898), aka Lewis Carroll, Potter mixed biographical drama with a psychological profile to explore the roots of Dodgson's creativity. Dodgson tells stories to ten-year-old Alice Liddell, leading to recreations of scenes adapted from ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND (1865), designed to resemble the original Sir John Tenniel illustrations.
Oct 20, 1965
Night club girl Victory Ducann is found murdered, the main suspect is an astronaut, but police are prevented from approaching him as he is due to fly off to the Moon.
Oct 27, 1965
Milly has been at it again.
Nov 3, 1965
Fragments of the life of three working-class women, and the people around them, in South London in the 1960s. Scenes in homes, streets, pubs, prison and their workplace cover family, friendship, romance, sex, and abortion.
Nov 10, 1965
An elderly right-wing politician is kidnapped, seemingly as part of a student prank. But his captors have a more alarming agenda.
Nov 17, 1965
A simple-minded man on the outs with his wife and her family must take a large amount of his father-in-law's hard-earned money to buy a house, in the belief that home-ownership will make him responsible and respectable. Instead, he throws it away on a mad spending spree with his daughter.
Nov 24, 1965
Jimmy is young, earning good money and going out with a smashing girl. What more could a man wish for?
Dec 1, 1965
Newlyweds Chris and Sally are young and attractive, with successful careers and a beautiful home. Their future is rosy. However, trying to make marriage work is not easy.
Dec 8, 1965
It deals with the experiences of Nigel Barton, a young man from a poor mining community who wins a scholarship to Oxford University. The villagers accuse him of snobbery, while the rich University students treat him like a peasant. Uncertain of which sphere he should be moving in, Nigel tries to reconcile himself with his proud but stubborn father, and also succeed at University, despite its pretentions which appal him.
Dec 15, 1965
Candidate Nigel Barton goes from idealism to cynicism as he becomes disillusioned and suspicious of hollow campaign promises.
Dec 22, 1965
A boy begins a search in Notting Hill shortly before Christmas.
Jan 5, 1966
Mrs. Miller wants to know why her husband has been working nights. PC Miller claims that a statue of Jesus on the cross has spoken to him in the graveyard. When senior officers and the church get involved, is he a prophet or a fraud?
Jan 12, 1966
John is an aspiring composer and pianist at a club and Mary is a single girl that he meets there. When friendship turns to romance, John has to contend with Colin, a charming ladies' man who turns to Mary in times of trouble.
Jan 19, 1966
Anything Incorporated, an exclusive club devoted to providing the illegal and unattainable for its clients. Our intrepid hero, Rodney, is a newspaper journalist determined to expose the venture.
Jan 26, 1966
A young English exchange student staying with a German family falls for the daughters.
Feb 2, 1966
Life in a Trappist monastery offers a life of contemplation and hard labour.
Feb 9, 1966
Billy Oates meets a lady in a market and, taken by his kindness, she invites him to lodge with her and her husband. A rivalry soon develops between the young man and his landlord.
Feb 16, 1966
Two boys hatch a plan to get some money to go to the seaside.
Feb 23, 1966
A young Irish woman named Eileen comes to Britain with romantic ideas of fame and fortune and meets Toppet, a struggling artist with a spare room.
Mar 2, 1966
The Headmaster and governors of a boarding school are accidentally locked in the new memorial room with the convicted Great Train Robbers.
Mar 9, 1966
Author James Hanley, Irish by birth and Welsh by adoption, crafted a TV play about a lonely spinster having her cottage in a seaside village requisitioned by the local council for a building scheme, with tragic consequences.
Mar 16, 1966
No overview available for this episode.
Mar 23, 1966
We spend a day with Barlowe, a council car park attendant.
Mar 30, 1966
After an assault a man tries to find justice in court only to find that his incompetent prosecution team and the attractive female defense lawyer who wows the court, conspire against him.
Apr 6, 1966
Satirical play in which businessmen want to destroy Westminster Abbey to make way for a bypass.
Apr 13, 1966
Louie, a married factory worker, has just been made redundant when he meets a girl in a park and decides to change his life.
Apr 20, 1966
A passionate, ambiguous relationship begins between two people who meet at a masked ball.
Apr 27, 1966
When a bossy do-gooder becomes homeless, she is passed from home to home.
May 4, 1966
A cynical housemaster at a boarding school tries to feather his nest in advance of his forthcoming retirement.
May 11, 1966
A young priest, newly arrived in Dublin, is conducting a retreat for the first time.
May 18, 1966
Eighty years after a nuclear war ravaged the British Isles, a team of scientists from New Zealand come to conduct a survey.
May 25, 1966
Morris, a homunculus, is under suspicion of having stolen the swimming pool fund from a girls' school.
Jun 1, 1966
Follows the assassination of Leon Trotsky.
Jun 8, 1966
Arthur Bradshaw is a successful fixer, with plans to start a night club.
Jun 15, 1966
A police raid on Edna Bossom's discreet hotel would be most ill-advised, in the opinion of Superintendent Willow; but one of his younger officers is determined to go ahead with one.
Jun 22, 1966
A couple revisit a past love affair when they meet again ten years later.
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