Michael Bakewell
Director
Theatre 625 (1964)
Series 4
Theatre 625 is a British television drama anthology series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1964 to 1968. It was one of the first regular programmes in the line-up of the channel, and the title referred to its production and transmission being in the higher-definition 625-line format, which only BBC2 used at the time.
Released May 3, 1964
Episode 90 min
None+
Genres: Drama
Keywords: imdb.partially-lost-tv-series, tmdb.based-on-short-story, tmdb.based-on-play-or-musical, tmdb.literary-adaptation, tmdb.anthology, tmdb.partially-lost-media
Network: BBC Two
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S4E1 - Talking to a Stranger, Part 1: Anytime You're Ready I'll Sparkle
Over the course of a single weekend, the Stevens family's lives will change forever.
Oct. 2, 1966, midnight
S4E2 - Talking to a Stranger, Part 2: No Skill or Special Knowledge is Required
Over the course of a single weekend, the Stevens family's lives will change forever.
Oct. 9, 1966, midnight
S4E3 - Talking to a Stranger, Part 3: Gladly My Cross-Eyed Bear
Over the course of a single weekend, the Stevens family's lives will change forever.
Oct. 16, 1966, midnight
S4E4 - Talking to a Stranger, Part 4: The Innocent Must Suffer
Over the course of a single weekend, the Stevens family's lives will change forever.
Oct. 23, 1966, midnight
S4E5 - Conquest: The Encounter
Oct. 29, 1966, midnight
S4E6 - Conquest: The Leopard and the Dragon
Oct. 30, 1966, midnight
S4E7 - Amerika
After a minor scandal involving a servant girl, young Karl is packed off to America, a land he finds distinctly strange.
Nov. 6, 1966, midnight
S4E8 - The Family Reunion
Dark secrets emerge when a family gathers for a birthday party at their country house.
Nov. 27, 1966, midnight
S4E9 - Anatol
Dec. 4, 1966, midnight
S4E10 - Sword of Honour, Part 1: Men at Arms
Prevented by his strict Roman Catholicism from divorcing his faithless wife, Guy Crouchback prepares for war in 1939.
Jan. 2, 1967, midnight
S4E11 - Sword of Honour, Part 2: Officers and Gentlemen
As he journeys through the Second World War, Crouchback undergoes various grotesque adventures, both comic and tragic.
Jan. 9, 1967, midnight
S4E12 - Sword of Honour, Part 3: Unconditional Surrender
At the end of the war, Crouchback ponders his future.
Jan. 16, 1967, midnight
S4E13 - A Slight Ache
Married couple Edward and Flora explore their dreams and desires, primarily Edward's fears of the unknown, of aging, and of the 'Other' as a threat to his self-identity.
Feb. 6, 1967, midnight
S4E14 - A Night Out
Albert, a shy and repressed young man who lives with his mother, is persuaded to go for 'a night out' with his workmates; it turns nightmarish.
Feb. 13, 1967, midnight
S4E15 - The Basement
An uneasy friendship between an introspective loner and a more gregarious man is renewed when the latter turns up at the former's basement flat one rainy night accompanied by an enigmatic, beautiful, mostly silent, girlfriend.
Feb. 20, 1967, midnight
S4E16 - Hotel Torpe
March 13, 1967, midnight
S4E17 - As a Man Grows Older
April 3, 1967, midnight
S4E18 - Kain
Brothers Kain and Rattler Sutherland live on a Northern Territory station. The unstable Kain clashes with the more laid-back Rattler over several issues - money, treatment of local Blacks, cattle, but most of all, their Aboriginal housemaid, Kaita, whom Kain is convinced Rattler has impregnated.
April 17, 1967, midnight
S4E19 - The Loser
May 1, 1967, midnight
S4E20 - The Winner
May 8, 1967, midnight
S4E21 - The Fantasist
May 15, 1967, midnight
S4E22 - The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
May 29, 1967, midnight
S4E23 - The Blood Knot
June 12, 1967, midnight
S4E24 - Henry IV
In twentieth-century Italy, a man insists that he is Enrico Quattro, an Italian monarch from centuries before. Obviously, he's a madman - isn't he?
June 26, 1967, midnight
S4E25 - Firebrand
July 2, 1967, midnight
S4E26 - The Plough and the Stars
A husband clashes with his wife over his membership to the Irish citizen army.
July 16, 1967, midnight
S4E27 - Tickle Times
July 30, 1967, midnight
S4E28 - 55 Columns
Aug. 6, 1967, midnight
S4E29 - Stan's Day Out
Aug. 13, 1967, midnight
S4E30 - The Cupboard
Aug. 20, 1967, midnight
Network: BBC Two
Episode Runtime: 90 min.
Season Runtime: 90 min.
Released: May 3, 1964
Last Air Date: Aug. 5, 1968, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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