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Theatre 625

Season 4 1966 - 1967

  • 1966-10-01T23:00:00Z on BBC Two
  • 1m
  • 6h 10m (14 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Drama
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.

14 episodes

Judi Dench stars in John Hopkins's quartet of plays that recount the events of one weekend from the viewpoints of four members of the same family.

In the first play Terry, the 30-year-old daughter of the Stephens family, reminisces about her past and tells of the family reunion on Sunday.

Hailed by critics as one of the most important and affecting television dramas of the 1960s, it won Judi Dench her first British Academy Television Award for Best Actress. (1966)

During the reunion, Mr Stephens (Maurice Denham) looks back at his life and recalls some previous family arguments.

Alan (Michael Bryant) has a proposition for his confused father as the police visit the Stephens home in the aftermath of Sunday’s tragic events.

The final part of the John Hopkins quartet goes back in time to Sunday morning when Mrs Stephens (Margery Mason) is busy preparing lunch as she has done for the past 30 years. Terry (Judi Dench) makes an unexpected visit that causes tensions to rise to the surface and tragedy strikes.

1966-10-29T00:00:00Z

4x05 Conquest: The Encounter

4x05 Conquest: The Encounter

  • 1966-10-29T00:00:00Z1h 30m

The story of the Norman Conquest of England, to coincide with the 900th anniversary.

4x06 Conquest: The Leopard and the Dragon

  • 1966-10-30T00:00:00Z1h 30m

King Harold before th Battle of Hastings. 900th anniversary production.

1967-02-13T00:00:00Z

4x13 A Night Out

4x13 A Night Out

  • 1967-02-13T00:00:00Z1m

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.

1967-02-20T00:00:00Z

4x14 The Basement

4x14 The Basement

  • 1967-02-20T00:00:00Z1m

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.

1967-07-15T23:00:00Z

4x25 The Plough and the Stars

4x25 The Plough and the Stars

  • 1967-07-15T23:00:00Z1h 30m

A husband clashes with his wife over his membership to the Irish citizen army.

1967-07-29T23:00:00Z

4x26 Tickle Times

4x26 Tickle Times

  • 1967-07-29T23:00:00Z1h 30m

1967-07-01T23:00:00Z

4x27 Firebrand

4x27 Firebrand

  • 1967-07-01T23:00:00Z1m

1967-08-12T23:00:00Z

4x28 Stan's Day Out

4x28 Stan's Day Out

  • 1967-08-12T23:00:00Z1m

1967-08-19T23:00:00Z

4x29 The Cupboard

4x29 The Cupboard

  • 1967-08-19T23:00:00Z1m
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