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Season 5

episodes

E1
1.Big Brain Man
Sep 11, 1960

Much to the delight of fellow tenants, a tenant becomes the landlord. Their delight is short lived when he starts behaving just like the previous landlord.

E2
2.A Heart and a Diamond
Sep 18, 1960
E3
3.Lena, O My Lena
Sep 25, 1960

Tom, a sensitive Liverpool student, takes a job on a loading dock in a Lancashire factory town. He becomes smitten with a girl named Lena who works in the machine shop next door, and despite a bullying driver who claims her for herself, he manages to take her out on a date.

E4
4.Pig's Ear with Flowers
Oct 2, 1960
E5
5.Thunder on the Snowy
Oct 9, 1960
E6
6.The Siege at Killyfaddy
Oct 16, 1960
E7
7.I'll Have You to Remember
Oct 23, 1960

A retired couple with many unresolved old scores to settle, argue and bicker while their world decays around them.

E8
8.My Representative
Oct 30, 1960

Ambition takes hold of fashion-house salesman Ronnie Page as he forgets those closest to him in his desire for a successful career.

E9
9.The Cake Baker
Nov 6, 1960
E10
10.Hail the Conquering Hero
Nov 13, 1960
E11
11.The Stranger
Nov 20, 1960
E12
12.Mr Nobody
Nov 27, 1960
E13
13.Clip Joint People
Dec 4, 1960
E14
14.The Cupboard
Dec 11, 1960

When Fred Watson's wife and landlady disappear, and he is seen papering over two cupboards in his bedroom, the police are called in.

E15
15.Rain
Dec 18, 1960

A prostitute finds redemption in Pago Pago thanks to a hard missionary man.

E16
16.The Great Gold Bullion Robbery
Dec 25, 1960

Robbery from a moving train? Impossible.

E17
17.A Head Full of Crocodiles
Jan 1, 1961
E18
18.Till the Day I Die
Jan 8, 1961
E19
19.The Mystery of Martin Wheeler
Jan 15, 1961
E20
20.The Picture of Dorian Gray
Jan 22, 1961

A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all.

E21
21.Honeymoon Postponed
Jan 29, 1961

Lancashire newlyweds Violet and Arthur Fitton are forced to postpone their honeymoon and move in temporarily with his parents.

E22
22.A Degree of Murder
Feb 5, 1961

A man and his wife plan to murder his eccentric wealthy sister.

E23
23.Strangers in the Room
Feb 12, 1961
E24
24.The Money Makers
Feb 19, 1961
E25
25.Tune on an Apron-String
Feb 26, 1961
E26
26.The Big Deal
Mar 3, 1961

Unscrupulous business Sir Pierson Cale is determined to win the contract to build a power station. He sees John Hamilton as someone who can get the job done but he wants him to bid half a million less than his nearest competitor.

E27
27.The Man Out There
Mar 12, 1961

A Russian astronaut trapped in space in a faulty rocket, has five hours to live when his radio makes contact with Marie, a hunter's wife also trapped, in a blizzard swept area of Canada. Her daughter is dying of diphtheria, he as a doctor can help her.

E28
28.The Conscientious Gauger
Mar 26, 1961
E29
29.The Way of Love
Apr 9, 1961
E30
30.The Hero
Apr 23, 1961
E31
31.Danger! Men Working
May 21, 1961

In Ulster, Major Trumbull is put in charge of overseeing the completion of a hospital on time. As the pressure increases, he replaces well-liked foreman Desmond Doherty with brash Scanling, which angers the men.

E32
32.No Licence for Singing
May 21, 1961
E33
33.Flying High
Apr 23, 1961
E34
34.Man on a Mountain Top
Apr 30, 1961

A writer who lives in carefully-protected seclusion does not welcome a young woman's intrusion into his life.

E35
35.Duel for Love
May 7, 1961
E36
36.The Ship That Couldn't Stop
May 14, 1961

A ship powered by a nuclear reactor, is heading for the port of New York and is unable to slow down.

E37
37.The Truth About Helen
May 21, 1961
E38
38.The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
May 28, 1961

The younger son of a working-class Jewish family in Montreal, Duddy Kravitz yearns to make a name for himself in society. This film chronicles his short and dubious rise to power, as well as his changing relationships with family and friends. Along the way the film explores the themes of anti-semitism and the responsibilities which come with adulthood.

E39
39.The Typists
Jun 4, 1961

We see two typists aging as they spend 40 years together in the same office.

E40
40.The Night of the Apes
Jun 11, 1961

After Clive is dishonourably discharged from the army for failing to shoot an unarmed terrorist, he finds his return to his hometown no easy matter.