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23 Episodes 1961 - 1962
Episode 1
Frederic was sent in the care of his nursemaid, Ruth, to be apprenticed to a pilot. But she misunderstood her instructions, being hard of hearing, and apprenticed him instead to the Pirate King.
Episode 2
Episode 3
Episode 4
A Swedish immigrant gets into a card game at the Blue Hotel - and it might kill him.
Episode 5
Christopher Fry's verse drama of four prisoners in an imaginary war.
Episode 6
Episode 7
Episode 8
Episode 9
Episode 10
A war and world weary soldier tries to talk a witch-hunting cleric into hanging him; he is shaken from his quest for death when the beautiful Jennet is also committed for hanging as a witch.
Episode 11
Episode 12
Episode 13
The tormented relationship between Queen Elizabeth I and the Earl of Essex.
Episode 14
Episode 15
To hold onto his throne, King Magnus must resort to elaborate subterfuge.
Episode 16
In line with the increasing tensions between the the USA and USSR of the time, this play depicts 1970 with England as a bombed out radioactive waste land. However a valley somehow remains free of radioactivity and this is where a woman and her two children survive by farming. Their idyllic bliss is interrupted by a patrol from the US who tell them that they are collecting them to take them to live in the USA in a special contamination zone as they are going to nuke that valley to stop the USSR offering the same and claiming the land. Their suggestion is met with little enthusiasm by the family who want to stay where they are.
Episode 17
Episode 18
Episode 19
Macbeth and his wife murder King Duncan to seize the throne of Scotland.
Episode 20
Episode 21
Episode 22
Two short plays by Harold Pinter. In "The Collection", a woman wonders if her husband is homosexual. In "A Slight Ache", an elderly couple take in an itinerant match-seller.
Episode 23