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E1 Episode 1: The Crucible

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• Oct 27, 1959

In the 17th century, a spiteful teenage girl accuses a man of witchcraft.

E2 Episode 2: A Clearing in the Woods

• Dec 1, 1959

A young woman who is suicidal has visions of herself at different ages - each incarnation trying to give her life meaning.

E3 Episode 3: The Secret Agent

• Dec 8, 1959

A spy in the pay of a foreign power is persuaded against his will to perpetrate an atrocity.

E4 Episode 4: Pineapple Poll

• Dec 22, 1959

E5 Episode 5: Summer Time

• Dec 29, 1959

A lonely American woman unexpectedly finds romance in Venice, Italy.

E6 Episode 6: The Cocktail Party

• Jan 5, 1960

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?

E7 Episode 7: The Gioconda Smile

• Jan 26, 1960

Arrogant Henry Hutton shouldn't have been so unfeeling towards lonely spinster Janet - when his wife dies, he might need her help.

E8 Episode 8: The Browning Version

• Feb 2, 1960

Forced to retire from an English public school. a disliked professor must confront his utter failures as a teacher, a husband, and a man.

E9 Episode 9: Tiger at the Gates

• Feb 9, 1960

Strenuous efforts to prevent the Trojan War from taking place eventually come to nothing.

E10 Episode 10: The Thirteen Clocks

• Feb 16, 1960

E11 Episode 11: An Enemy of the People

• Feb 23, 1960

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.

E12 Episode 12: The Importance of Being Earnest

• Mar 1, 1960

In 1890s London, two friends use the same pseudonym ("Ernest") for their on-the-sly activities. Hilarity ensues.

E13 Episode 13: Candida

• Mar 15, 1960

A teenage poet falls in love with the much older wife of a clergyman.

E14 Episode 14: Sir Thomas Beecham Presents Lollipops

• Apr 19, 1960

E15 Episode 15: The Barber of Seville

• May 3, 1960

E16 Episode 16: Hedda Gabler

• May 10, 1960

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.

E17 Episode 17: Mr. Arcularis

• May 17, 1960

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.

E18 Episode 18: A Tongue of Silver

• May 31, 1960

E19 Episode 19: The Zeal of Thy House

• Jun 7, 1960