Original title
Love Story
Released
6/3/1963
Origin country
GB
Production companies
Associated Television
Status
In production
Number of seasons
11
Number of episodes
128
Love Story is a 60-minute British anthology television series produced by Associated Television (ATV). A total of 128 episodes aired on ITV from 1963 to 1974. Its guest stars included Vanessa Redgrave, Lynn Redgrave, Stephanie Beacham, James Bolam, Dudley Moore, Wendy Hiller, Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Macnee, John Hurt, Geoffrey Palmer, Judy Cornwell, Leo McKern, David Hemmings, Judy Parfitt, Anna Massey, Felicity Kendal, Edward Fox, Sam Wanamaker, Ian McShane, Michael Kitchen, George Maharis and Margaret Whiting.
Tommy is preparing to leave his home town which he thinks will be laid to waste by the Beeching cuts, but its on a railway platform he meets Susan who has problems of her own
Miriam is from a wealthy family and is due to marry her stockbroker boyfriend Julian however she becomes curious about the alternatives when Albert the plumber visits.
Robert Langley (Marius Goring), successful and recently widowed, returns from a memorial service held for his wife. He finds a woman waiting for him at home. He recognises her as Jane Bridges (Elizabeth Sellars), the woman with whom he had been in love twenty years before. Jane tells him she has returned on a sentimental journey from America, where she was recently bereaved. Her husband has left her well-to-do and independent. She invites Robert to dinner, preparing to act out the lie she has begun. She has never been married, and she is not wealthy.
After a string of casual affairs Crawford starts to receive self invited visits from the mysterious Umberman. Who proceeds to drop in at the most inconvenient time and offer his advice on the present affair.
Henry Golden is ignored by his family, but he finds happiness in the fantasy world of his antique shop with his assistant Georgina Keyes. However, for Georgina, reality eventually has to be faced.
The whereabouts of his daughter's favourite toy is causing problems for Stevie as it could reveal his involvement in an extra marital affair.
Young Billy is looking for answers, he assumes the older Mrs Betts has them, but is she any more enlightened than he is?
An aging bachelor, afraid of commitment finds he may have met his match in a rather unattractive spinster.
Lisa's re-occurring dream about a girl on a cliff (with a man pointing a gun), is revealed one night as her estranged sister Meg. Lisa traces Meg to a house by a cliff,she finds her very ill and living with Teddy a weird fashion designer.
A Polish ornithology student finds his field glasses straying towards the girl opposite rather than the birds in the sky.
Theo Sandman's keen ear and judgment had made him a highly successful music producer- but then he auditions the most beautiful girl he has ever seen- the problem is she cannot sing a note.
Jill a 16 year old, tells her parents she wants to marry 19 year old Laurie after just meeting him at a holiday camp.
Todays theme is La Musica.
The Cinderella story of typist Jane Kennedy who wins an evening out with film star Richard Page in a crossword competition.
Joan Randolph discovers her husband wants to re-visit Cyprus, she has her own reasons for trying to prevent him from doing so.
Stanley Parker, a resident at Thorn Hall old people's home, comes into conflict with the matron, Miss Crowhurst whom he nicknames the Old Crow.
The Grants take on Rosemarie, an Au Pair girl, to look after their morose son Johnny. It's unexpectedly love at first sight for Johnny.
War veteran turned television producer John Trewardine travels to Greece with a reporter and his interpreter Jenny leaving wife Venetia at home anxious that the trip does not take place.
When family friend Agnes comes to stay with married couple Margaret and Henry she finds mutual interests with Henry little realising the difference she is going to make to their lives.
In an attempt to save their marriage Harry and Kay Granger swap roles. Kay was a rotten housewife and Harry a dead loss as a businessman. Can they do any better with their jobs reversed?
An old woman and an old man are regular visitors to a park. She feeds the ducks, he likes to watch but what happens the day he decides to join in?
Turner gatecrashes the island retreat of his hero Bishop, a retired film director.He discovers his retirement was not voluntary but because of the failure of his last film, a self indulgent mess. After an affair with Turner,Isabel (a former starlet) realizes her husband only really loves her film images.
David is in love with Birgit who is Swedish and cannot speak a word of English.
An insecure pop star needs his manager for support when his home is invaded by an adoring fan- but is she?
A traveling Irish threatre troupe suddenly discover that the love story they had been sold and were performing each night is none other than a plagiarized version of 'Gone with the Wind'.
A successful television personality juggles his seemingly happy marriage with his long-term affair with a colleague, until tragedy strikes.
You Don't Know Me, But ..
It's 1968, Kapek arrives in London from his native Prague.
Brian's boss needs someone to accompany him to a dinner. Brian's wife agrees on the pretext it might help her husband's stagnant career, however, on the night she finds herself enjoying it all.
A lodger finds himself attracted to his landlady, and to her daughter.
A middle aged loner suddenly finds he has the respect and attention of a 13 year old girl, who herself has been neglected by her family. Their innocent relationship becomes open to misinterpretation.
Following an ancient Jewish tradition, a man offers to take the place of his dead brother, but will his widowed sister-in-law agree?
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