Studio 4

1. The Cross and the Arrow

Air Date: 1962-01-22

Despite being decorated with a German Service Cross, Willi Wegler is inwardly sickened by both Hitler's genocidal war and the complicity of his fellow citizens in Third Reich brutalities. Wracked by guilt, he suddenly betrays his country in a profound gesture of protest and self-sacrifice – an act that cannot fail to precipitate a series of dramatic events.

2. The Second Curtain

Air Date: 1962-01-29

Divorced novelist named George Garner gets drawn into a disappearance case involving an old schoolmate, William Widgery, leading him to amateur sleuthing as his own life and reputation unravel.

3. Flight Into Danger

Air Date: 1962-02-05

A charter flight from Winnipeg to Vancouver goes horribly awry when the pilots and passengers fall victim to food poisoning, forcing an ex-WWII pilot passenger to take control and attempt an emergency landing.

4. The Intrigue

Air Date: 1962-02-12

A French magistrate hears a homicide confession described as 'as disarmingly honest as it is disconcertingly gay', revealing the love affair that sparked the crime.

5. Call Me Back

Air Date: 1962-02-19

A harried ad man drinks himself into oblivion as he tries to touch base with friends and loved ones by phone.

6. The Ballad of Peckham Rye

Air Date: 1962-03-05

A mysterious, devilish Scotsman named Dougal Douglas arrives in a South London neighbourhood and disrupts the lives of the local workers at a textile company, causing mayhem, mutiny, and even murder through his 'human research'.

7. Look Who's Talking

Air Date: 1962-03-12

8. The Victorian Chaise Longue

Air Date: 1962-03-19

After buying an antique chaise-longue, Melanie experiences a nightmarish body-swap, finding herself in a oppressive Victorian era with a patronising husband and doctor, unable to convince anyone she is from the future.

9. The Grass Is Singing

Air Date: 1962-03-26

Mary Turner is a white woman whose life unravels on a farm, leading to a destructive relationship with her Black servant, Moses, culminating in violence and a critique of the social and racial dynamics.

10. North Flight

Air Date: 1962-04-02

A tale of political intrigue following failures of British jet fighters in the service of a foreign power.

11. A Voice from the Top

Air Date: 1962-04-09

12. The Imbroglio

Air Date: 1962-04-16

A shy, awkward law student dreams of becoming a famous diplomat.

1. Doctor Korczak and the Children

Air Date: 1962-08-13

Revered Polish-Jewish educator, pediatrician, and writer Janusz Korczak chose to die with nearly 200 orphans from his Warsaw Ghetto orphanage, leading them calmly to the Treblinka extermination camp in August 1942 rather than abandoning them.

2. The Weather in the Streets

Air Date: 1962-08-20

Olivia Curtis, a woman in a failing marriage, begins a passionate, illicit affair with her childhood crush, Rollo Spencer, after they reconnect on a trai

3. Summer Storm

Air Date: 1962-08-27

Wnen the nude body of a beautiful girl washes up on the beach of an exclusive Spanish resort on the Costa Brava, it is discovered one morning by a group of children from the summer colony. The unknown victim soon haunts the imagination of the community; the sheltered but undisciplined children have encountered for the first time the naked facts of life while the townspeople and fishermen seek desperately to convince themselves that this is just another shameful crime perpetrated against their Spain by the depraved foreign vacationers in the tent camp on the outskirts of the colony.

4. Address Unknown

Air Date: 1962-09-03

A powerful story told via letters between a Jewish art dealer in San Francisco and his former business partner who returns to Germany as the Nazis rise to power.

5. Stamboul Train

Air Date: 1962-09-10

As a diverse group of passengers on the Orient Express journey from Ostend to Istanbul, their lives intertwine. Among them are chorus girl Coral Musker, businessman Carleton Myatt, and revolutionary Dr. John, exploring themes of identity, politics, and human connection through a suspenseful thriller.

6. Comrade Jacob

Air Date: 1962-09-17

The rise and fall of the Diggers, a radical religious group during the English Civil War, focusing on their leader Gerrard Winstanley and the challenges of their communal living and ideals.