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October 23, 1960

Season Two

01. The Chopping Block

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October 23, 1960

02. Looking for Garrow

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October 30, 1960

03. A Subject of Scandal and Concern

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.

November 6, 1960

04. The Wind and the Sun

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November 13, 1960

05. The Squeeze

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.

November 20, 1960

06. The Nightwalkers

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November 27, 1960

07. The Assassins

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

December 4, 1960

08. The Song of a March Hare

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December 11, 1960

09. A Time to Fight

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December 18, 1960

10. Tuppence in the Gods

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December 25, 1960

11. Nearer to Heaven

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January 1, 1961

12. Venus Brown

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

January 8, 1961

13. A Woman Comes Home

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

January 15, 1961

14. Off Centre

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

January 22, 1961

15. A Kind of Strength

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January 29, 1961

16. The Final Result

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February 5, 1961

17. The Intervener

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February 12, 1961

18. An Inspector Calls

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.

February 19, 1961

19. The Mather Story

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February 26, 1961

20. A Reason for Staying

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

March 5, 1961

21. Old Mick Mack

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March 12, 1961

22. The Wrong Side of the Park

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March 19, 1961

23. Fury in Petticoats

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March 26, 1961

24. Brian Rix Presents #11: A Fair Cop

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April 2, 1961

25. Charley's Aunt

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

April 16, 1961

26. Scene of the Accident

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April 30, 1961

27. Marriage Lines

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May 14, 1961

28. Brian Rix Presents #12: Wolf's Clothing

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May 21, 1961

29. Home at Seven

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.

June 4, 1961

30. A Call on Kuprin: Part 1

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?

June 18, 1961

31. A Call on Kuprin: Part 2

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.

June 25, 1961

32. That Lady

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

July 9, 1961

33. Listen James

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July 23, 1961

34. Brian Rix Presents #13: Basinful of the Briny

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August 6, 1961

35. The Winslow Boy

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.

August 20, 1961

36. Wet Fish

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September 3, 1961

37. The Hasty Heart

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.

September 17, 1961