Startime: Season 1 (1959)
- Episodes: 19
- Premiered October 27, 1959
Episodes
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Episode 1 ·
The Crucible
In the 17th century, a spiteful teenage girl accuses a man of witchcraft.
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Episode 2 ·
A Clearing in the Woods
A young woman who is suicidal has visions of herself at different ages - each incarnation trying to give her life meaning.
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Episode 3 ·
The Secret Agent
A spy in the pay of a foreign power is persuaded against his will to perpetrate an atrocity.
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Episode 4 ·
Pineapple Poll
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Episode 5 ·
Summer Time
A lonely American woman unexpectedly finds romance in Venice, Italy.
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Episode 6 ·
The Cocktail Party
Lavinia has left her husband before a cocktail party. They have both had relationships. A foreign guest, Sir Henry, analyzes their marriage and relationship. Will they find their way back to each other again?
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Episode 7 ·
The Gioconda Smile
Arrogant Henry Hutton shouldn't have been so unfeeling towards lonely spinster Janet - when his wife dies, he might need her help.
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Episode 8 ·
The Browning Version
Forced to retire from an English public school. a disliked professor must confront his utter failures as a teacher, a husband, and a man.
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Episode 9 ·
Tiger at the Gates
Strenuous efforts to prevent the Trojan War from taking place eventually come to nothing.
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Episode 10 ·
The Thirteen Clocks
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Episode 11 ·
An Enemy of the People
When a doctor finds that his town's water supply has become polluted, he is astonished to find that his determination to broadcast the truth has made him a pariah in the community.
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Episode 12 ·
The Importance of Being Earnest
In 1890s London, two friends use the same pseudonym ("Ernest") for their on-the-sly activities. Hilarity ensues.
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Episode 13 ·
Candida
A teenage poet falls in love with the much older wife of a clergyman.
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Episode 14 ·
Sir Thomas Beecham Presents Lollipops
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Episode 15 ·
The Barber of Seville
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Episode 16 ·
Hedda Gabler
Hedda Gabler looks forward only to a life of suffocating dullness in her marriage to an academic she finds boring. But then the writer with whom she once had a tempestuous relationship returns.
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Episode 17 ·
Mr. Arcularis
Mr. Arcularis sets off on a long sea voyage to recuperate from a serious surgical operation. But the strangest things start to happen on board ship.
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Episode 18 ·
A Tongue of Silver
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Episode 19 ·
The Zeal of Thy House