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Startime

1959
1 season
2 episodes
Drama

19 episodes of dramas

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  • Ep 1

    1.The Crucible

    27-10-1959

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

  • Ep 2

    2.A Clearing in the Woods

    01-12-1959

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

  • Ep 3

    3.The Secret Agent

    08-12-1959

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

  • Ep 4

    4.Pineapple Poll

    22-12-1959
  • Ep 5

    5.Summer Time

    29-12-1959

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

  • Ep 6

    6.The Cocktail Party

    05-01-1960

    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 w...

  • Ep 7

    7.The Gioconda Smile

    26-01-1960

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

  • Ep 8

    8.The Browning Version

    02-02-1960

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

  • Ep 9

    9.Tiger at the Gates

    09-02-1960

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

  • Ep 10

    10.The Thirteen Clocks

    16-02-1960
  • Ep 11

    11.An Enemy of the People

    23-02-1960

    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.

  • Ep 12

    12.The Importance of Being Earnest

    01-03-1960

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

  • Ep 13

    13.Candida

    15-03-1960

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

  • Ep 14

    14.Sir Thomas Beecham Presents Lollipops

    19-04-1960
  • Ep 15

    15.The Barber of Seville

    03-05-1960
  • Ep 16

    16.Hedda Gabler

    10-05-1960

    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 relation...

  • Ep 17

    17.Mr. Arcularis

    17-05-1960

    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.

  • Ep 18

    18.A Tongue of Silver

    31-05-1960
  • Ep 19

    19.The Zeal of Thy House

    07-06-1960

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