Season 1

Three people find themselves sharing a room with no way out. As they talk, the nature of the room and how they came to be there is gradually revealed.

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Pale Horse, Pale Rider

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November 11, 1964 • 1h 25m

A young woman's dreams of death but The Pale Rider fills her dreams along with her lover.

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The Big Breaker

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November 18, 1964 • 1h 30m

A lodger, recuperating from a heart attack, sets his sights on his landlady.

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Mr. Douglas

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November 25, 1964 • 1h 10m

Coronation Day, 1761: A merchant entertains a guest with an extraordinary secret.

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Malatesta

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December 2, 1964 • 1h 35m

Sigismondo Malatesta is a condottiere, a mercenary for hire and patron of the arts.

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The July Plot

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December 9, 1964 • 1h 35m

Dramatisation of the failed plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler in July 1944 by a conspiracy of high-ranking German Army officers.

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First Love

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December 16, 1964 • 1h 25m

A study of a boy's passion for an older girl as he discovers the difference between infatuation and true love.

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Archibald Cooper is a London gangster who is living the life of a country squire while running a criminal empire. He learns that he's getting a knighthood so invites some old associates to country house unaware they are planning a robbery.

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Sir Jocelyn, the Minister Would Like a Word...

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January 13, 1965 • 1h 15m

A group of politicians and university dons argue over whether a new university should have a chapel or a state-of-the-art lecture hall.

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The Navigators

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January 20, 1965 • 1h 15m

A tale of romance between two working class navvies.

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Fable

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January 27, 1965 • 1h 15m

In a parallel totalitarian Great Britain, those in authority are Black people, and white people are their social underdogs — a reversal of the situation in then-contemporary apartheid South Africa.

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Dan, Dan the Charity Man

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February 3, 1965 • 1h 15m

Dan Sankey, the charity knocker, has become a national celebrity but who is the man behind the image?

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Ashes to Ashes

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February 10, 1965 • 1h 15m

Barbara is an assertive, clever, liberated woman, her own boss. Who'd think she could be swept off her feet by a handsome stranger for whom she'd give up her career, London, everything? Especially as her new husband maybe wants to kill her.

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Wear a Very Big Hat

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February 17, 1965 • 1h 15m

A young couple celebrate their wedding anniversary with a night on the town.

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The Confidence Course

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February 24, 1965 • 1h 1m

A trio of swindlers advertise a self-assertiveness seminar, lure a dozen victims to a hotel and attempt to persuade them to enroll in their course. However, a man claiming to be 18th century critic-essayist William Hazlitt attacks the consumerist values outlined by the motivational speaker.

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Campaign for One

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March 3, 1965 • 1h 15m

Astronaut Osborne is stuck in a malfunctioning capsule. As he goes round and round the Earth, he starts telling jokes and secrets. When the time comes to bring him down to Earth, he can't face it as he feels like a sexual failure.

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Horror of Darkness

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March 10, 1965 • 1h 10m

Peter and Cathy are initially delighted to see their charismatic, subtly domineering friend Robin. But he outstays his welcome, and that's to say the least of it.

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