Original title
Theatre 625
Released
5/3/1964
Origin country
GB
Genre
Drama
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
5
Number of episodes
115
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.
Three plays on the theme of man and belief by Ken Taylor.
Three plays on the theme of man and belief by Ken Taylor.
Three plays on the theme of man and belief by Ken Taylor.
The events leading up to the assassination of Julius Caesar.
A group of revolutionaries plot a political assassination.
The first of three plays by Colin Morris.
The second of three plays by Colin Morris.
The third of a trilogy by Colin Morris. Paintings by children of the Horncastle School, East Grinstead.
A trilogy by Ford Madox Ford.
A trilogy by Ford Madox Ford.
A trilogy by Ford Madox Ford.
Three patients in a lunatic asylum all claim to be famous physicists. One of them – but which? · actually is a famous physicist, and the agents of a foreign power want his knowledge.
Three plays by Alun Owen.
Three plays by Alun Owen.
Three plays by Alun Owen.
16th-century mercenary knight Götz von Berlichingen loses his right hand in battle and has a prosthetic iron hand commissioned.
John Ebony begins a new career as a schoolteacher — and begins to suspect certain pupils of murder.
Anne Follister witnesses an assassination on the London Underground and becomes the next would-be victim of the perpetrators.
Young couple Ben and Kathie buy the end house in a South London Terrace, only to discover that their neighbours have knocked through all their interior walls to form a single commune, unknown to the outside world. Invited to join this alternative community, Ben and Kathie eventually witness its collapse and final destruction.
In 1916 Dublin is a story of love and hatred, engendered by the Irish Rebellion.
The young and liberated Rebekka West wants Pastor Rosmer. However, will his pondering and his wife's suicide ruin their relationship?
Miss Julie has a torrid, strange relationship with her servant Jean.
Con artist Solly Gold convinces a Jewish millionaire that he is the Messiah in order to steal his money.
A German mercenary is hired to defend the small township of Manchester during the English Civil War.
Gordon Comstock dreams of being a great poet and giving up his dreary career in advertising. But advertising pays and poetry doesn't.
With war looming, middle-aged George Bowling reminisces about the lost world of his village upbringing.
In a totalitarian future society, a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.
After meeting the nefarious Doctor Knock, a number of respectable citizens in a French town become convinced that they are very ill.
Towards the end of WWII, a Brooklyn man is mistaken for a Jew by anti-Semitic neighbours, forcing him to consider the nature of prejudice.
A Jewish family from in London strive to maintain their 1930s Communist beliefs, through the War and the rise of Stalin, to the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.
A uneducated Norfolk girl matures into a confident woman.
A London couple move to an isolated Norfolk cottage and try to live off the land.
An argumentative theatrical couple are persuaded to appear as harmonious versions of themselves in a television series filmed in their own home.
In this rendering of the Turgenev play, a woman toys with a young admirer's affections while spending a month at a country estate.
Young playwright Konstantin is in love with aspiring actress Nina, who in turn is infatuated with his famous writer lover Trigorin.
The story of Queen Katherine, widow of Henry V, and her affair with Welsh hero of Agincourt, Sir Owen Tudor.
Hardcastle, a man of substance, looks forward to acquainting his daughter with his old pal's son with a view to marriage. But thanks to playboy Lumpkin, he's mistaken by his prospective son-in-law Marlow for an innkeeper, his daughter for the local barmaid. The good news is, while Marlow can barely speak to a woman of quality, he's a charmer with those of a different stamp. And so, as Hardcastle's indignation intensifies, Miss Hardcastle's appreciation for her misguided suitor soars. Misdemeanours multiply, love blossoms, mayhem ensues.
During the American Civil War, a Southern patriarch finds his house occupied by enemy soldiers.
Over the course of a single weekend, the Stevens family's lives will change forever.
Over the course of a single weekend, the Stevens family's lives will change forever.
Over the course of a single weekend, the Stevens family's lives will change forever.
Over the course of a single weekend, the Stevens family's lives will change forever.
After a minor scandal involving a servant girl, young Karl is packed off to America, a land he finds distinctly strange.
Dark secrets emerge when a family gathers for a birthday party at their country house.
Prevented by his strict Roman Catholicism from divorcing his faithless wife, Guy Crouchback prepares for war in 1939.
As he journeys through the Second World War, Crouchback undergoes various grotesque adventures, both comic and tragic.
At the end of the war, Crouchback ponders his future.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
A husband clashes with his wife over his membership to the Irish citizen army.
Murphy is a humble pen-pusher in a cardboard box factory who tries to brighten his life with home movies, tape-recording, and homemade wine. But success can come from failure...
A German businessman develops an obsessive passion for a girl he picks up in an East End pub. But she, and her brother, are playing their own game.
An account of the famous 'Calas case', in which Voltaire managed, at great personal risk, to set right an injustice.
Anyone who doesn't conform to bourgeois norms in a post-apocalyptic world is ritually executed.
A woman is given in marriage to the man she longs for, but, because she's of lower rank, he refuses to accept. It becomes her challenge to win his acceptance.
When Councillor Ogidi and Mr Madu come to Chief Ozuomba's court, both wanting to marry Elina, the Chief sees his chance to oppose the new anti-polygamy law.
In a future where the world is dominated and run by television, where language has become almost redundant and all 'tensions' - love, war, hate, loyalty - have been removed, overpopulation is a problem, so there are gluttony programmes to put people off food and pornography programmes to put them off sex. There is artsex and sportsex, and now this - the year of the Sex Olympics. Audience attention begins to wane, however, until TV executive Ugo Priest works on a new concept - a reality-based programme in which a couple is stranded on a bleak island, without the aid of any modern technology, and their efforts to survive filmed twenty-four hours a day.
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