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Young country curate, Roger Strawbridge, and his wife, Cathy, find themselves in financial distress. In a desperate attempt to resolve their money troubles, Cathy decides to gamble on the football pools. The drama unfolds as she unexpectedly wins a massive jac...

At the Trenartha Tin Plate Works a bitter industrial dispute has lasted five months. The founder of the company, the staunch conservative John Anthony, refuses to accede to the demands of the workforce, despite the cessation of output and the resultant decline...

The positronic brain of robot RB-34 (Herbie) has an unforeseen 'extra': he can read human thoughts. So his take on the First Law of Robotics is unorthodox: he tells human beings only what he believes will not hurt their feelings. Can renowned robopsychologist...

The Ship contains a generation, and only one inheritor knows what must be done when the tremor is felt throughout the metal cylinder.

Dr Frank Bowers has been looking forward to returning home after a long stay in a psychiatric ward. But when he gets there, he finds that not only does no one recognize him, but another man called Frank Bowers is living in his place.

In the snooker room at a genteel gentleman's club, the mood darkens when adultery becomes the subject of conversation.

Sally and George appear a happy middle class couple. However, they are childless, which is starting to cause tension. While George ponders an illegal business venture, Sally starts to grow closer to her piano teacher.

Arnold wants to relax watching TV, but Terry is missing. Terry is the cat of his mother-in-law, who left it with Arnold and his family when she went on holiday. Now Arnold's wife, Hilda, is frantic with worry.

Gerald works in publisling. He was a pilot in World War 2 and enjoys talking about his aerial battles. His employees dislike him, apart from his loyal secretary. One evening, his wife tells him about her depression. Gerald has a solution: gin and tonic. He co...

Level 7 is the deepest and the safest level in a nuclear bunker. The nerve centre of the government is based here. But how safe is it?

The very rich can buy eternal life: all that's needed is someone desperate enough to donate, for a high price, a young body into which their personality can be transferred.

The population of the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 21st Century is static, thanks to computerised population control, but the wife of the Population Officer becomes pregnant for the second time.

Kipper is obsessed with Manor Park Football Club. At his workplace, this obsession attracts the derision of two of his colleagues. Meanwhile, Manor Park are to play against Dutch club Ajax

The writer and philosopher Voltaire decides to take action when he hears of a case of a man being tortured after being accused of murdering his son.

Mr Foster and his sister live quietly in the suburbs but are not what they seem, possessing scientific knowledge far in advance of humanity.

A Middle-aged couple are disturbed during the night by a series of unwelcome visitations.

In a bookbinding factory, Nobby, the foreman, is the master of his domain. Hector, a young new recruit, struggles. Ted, about to retire, refuses to be intimidated. Lorna, a young female employee, attempts to help Hector, but Nobby has other ideas.

Robot QT-1, aboard an orbiting space station, controls the massive energy beam which transmits the sun's power to receivers on Earth. But QT-1 (Cutie) has some strange bees in his positronic bonnet. How could weak creatures of protoplasm create a nearly invinc...

Broadcast on 1 February 1956, composer Arthur Benjamin's Mañana was the first opera commissioned by the BBC. "The small Andalusian village comes to life in a sequence of short scenes introducing its inhabitants: a group of gossiping washerwomen, the prying eye...

A human-looking robot housekeeper is the latest gadget to acquire in the ceaseless battle to keep up with the Joneses. But housewife Claire Belmont starts to question the wisdom of her husband's purchase when TN3 (Tony) arrives. Can a man-like robot do everyth...