.....But if it makes you feel any better, I read the following telecasts survive (Part 2)
by Thor-Delta | created - 20 Feb 2013 | updated - 20 Feb 2013 | PublicI read that the following 1960s-era BBC TV one-offs still exist. I'm sure there are others, though.
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1. The Road to Carey Street (1960 TV Movie)
Drama
Director: Don Taylor | Stars: Susan Brown, Mona Bruce, Denis Cleary, Clifford Cox
2. Stuff and Nonsense (1960 TV Movie)
50 min | Romance
June is bringing her beau, Sidney, home to meet her family. Three generations of the family live in the basement flat in Parsons Green, surrounded by the stuffed remains of the family pets.... See full summary »
Director: Brandon Acton-Bond | Stars: Richard Pearson, Patsy Rowlands, Dandy Nichols, Gretchen Franklin
3. Hands Across the Sky (1960 TV Movie)
45 min | Musical, Sci-Fi
The object of the professor's affections has more time for a green alien.
Stars: Eric Shilling, Julia Shelley, Stephen Manton, James Maxwell
4. Riders to the Sea (1960 TV Movie)
28 min | Drama, Family
Maurya, who lives in a village on the coast of Ireland, has lost her husband, father-in-law, and five sons to the sea. With a sense of foreboding, she predicts that by nightfall she will have no living sons remaining.
Director: George R. Foa | Stars: Sybil Thorndike, Sean Connery, Olive McFarland, Jan Kenny
Votes: 29
5. Who Pays the Piper? (1960 TV Movie)
60 min | Drama
Stars: John Barrett, Dulcie Bowman, Harry Brunning, Charles Carson
6. A Wedding (1961 TV Movie)
30 min | Drama, Family
Class distinctions, inferiority complexes, and social climbing abound as the bride, groom, and their families gather for a wedding banquet. There's a rumor that a general will be in ... See full summary »
Director: Rosemary Hill | Stars: Dennis Handby, Roger Kemp, Dennis Edwards, Hilary Mason
Votes: 18
7. Rashomon (1961 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
In the depths of a forest, a man is killed and his wife seemingly raped. When a notorious bandit is brought to trial, the case could hardly seem simpler. But what really happened?
Director: Rudolph Cartier | Stars: Yôko Tani, Lee Montague, Robert Hardy, Richard Pearson
Votes: 14
8. Solitaire (1961 TV Movie)
Drama
Director: Naomi Capon | Stars: Françoise Rosay, Sonia Dresdel, Colin Jeavons, Tamara Hinchco
9. Traitor in a Steel Helmet (1961 TV Movie)
60 min | Drama
Director: Patrick Dromgoole | Stars: Brian Bedford, Patrick McAlinney, Frank Windsor, Victor Lucas
10. Anna Karenina (1961 TV Movie)
105 min | Drama
In the Russia of the 1880s, Anna Karenina sacrifices her marriage when she has a passionate affair with an army officer.
Director: Rudolph Cartier | Stars: Claire Bloom, Sean Connery, Jack Watling, Valerie Taylor
Votes: 176
11. A Book with Chapters in It (1961 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
Director: Eric Tayler | Stars: Ruth Dunning, Bruce Prochnik, Maureen Pryor, Peter Vaughan
12. Where the Difference Begins (1961 TV Movie)
95 min | Drama
Wilf's wife Alice is dying. He has sent for his two sons. Edgar, a successful scientist, has brought his wife. Richard, a disillusioned artist who has stumbled into teaching and who is in ... See full summary »
Director: Don Taylor | Stars: Leslie Sands, Nigel Stock, Barry Foster, Hylda Baker
13. Candida (I) (1961 TV Movie)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
Candida is the sensible wife of a clergyman. Her husband tends to take her for granted, but she has a young admirer who doesn't.
Director: Naomi Capon | Stars: Wendy Craig, Patrick Allen, Peter McEnery, Peter Sallis
14. The Largest Theatre in the World: Heart to Heart (1962 TV Movie)
80 min | Drama
A television interviewer is determined to get a coup on a dodgy cabinet minister.
Director: Alvin Rakoff | Stars: Kenneth More, Ralph Richardson, Angela Baddeley, Wendy Craig
Votes: 28
15. The Second Mrs. Tanqueray (1962 TV Movie)
75 min | Drama
Director: Dorothea Brooking | Stars: Elizabeth Sellars, Peter Williams, Margaretta Scott, Bernard Archard
16. The Ghost Sonata (1962 TV Movie)
A young student makes the acquaintance of the mysterious man who helps him to find his way into the apartment of betrayal and sickness.
Director: Stuart Burge | Stars: Jeremy Brett, Robert Helpmann, Beatrix Lehmann, William Mervyn
Votes: 9
17. The Slaughter of St. Teresa's Day (1962 TV Movie)
75 min | Drama
Stars: Susannah York, Madge Ryan, Vincent Ball, Maggie Fitzgibbon
18. The Cherry Orchard (1962 TV Movie)
130 min | Comedy
Madame Lyubov Andreyevna Ranevsky (Peggy Ashcroft) is a spoiled aging aristocratic lady, who returns from a trip to Paris to face the loss of her magnificent Cherry Orchard estate after a ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Elliott | Stars: Peggy Ashcroft, John Gielgud, Dorothy Tutin, Judi Dench
Votes: 65
19. The Winter's Tale (1962 TV Movie)
140 min | Drama
King Leontes of Bohemia suspects his wife, Hermione, and his friend, Polixenes, of betraying him. When he forces Polixenes to flee for his life, Leontes sets in motion a chain of events ... See full summary »
Director: Don Taylor | Stars: Robert Shaw, Rosalie Crutchley, Patrick Macnee, Brenda Bruce
Votes: 11
20. Late Summer Affair (1962 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
Stars: Nigel Stock, Wendy Craig, Jessie Evans, Brian Wilde
21. At the Drop of a Hat (1962 TV Movie)
50 min
Director: Harry Carlisle | Stars: Michael Flanders, Donald Swann
22. A Climate of Fear (1962 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
Dealing with conscience under the threat of a possible nuclear war.
Stars: Pauline Letts, John Stratton, Geoffrey Bayldon, Tony Garnett
23. Smashing Day (1962 TV Movie)
60 min | Drama
A young man dreams of improving his lot in life, and meets a girl who might help him achieve his ambitions. But will he abandon the life he knows for the love of her?
Stars: Alfred Lynch, June Barry, Angela Douglas, John Thaw
24. The Father (1962 TV Movie)
75 min | Drama
Parents struggle over the future of their child, resulting in the mother, using her cunning manipulative skills, subduing and finally destroying the father.
Stars: Robert Shaw, Daphne Slater, Denis Quilley, Wynne Clark
25. Hedda Gabler (1962 TV Movie)
75 min | Drama
A scheming woman marries a nice but dimwitted intellectual out of convenience. She hears that her old lover is back in town. She decides to destroy his life, jealous of his love affair with another.
Director: Alex Segal | Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Michael Redgrave, Ralph Richardson, Trevor Howard
Votes: 394
26. As You Like It (1963 TV Movie)
140 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
After the overthrowing of Duke Senior by his tyrannical brother, Senior's daughter Rosalind disguises herself as a man and sets out to find her banished father while also counseling her clumsy suitor Orlando in the art of wooing.
Directors: Michael Elliott, Ronald Eyre | Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, Patrick Allen, Max Adrian, Patrick Wymark
Votes: 160
27. An Evening with Nat King Cole (1963 TV Special)
Music
A 47 minute TV special where he performs many hits in his inimitable, charming manner with great accompaniment. The last ten minutes feature dated, Mitch Miller style backing vocals but ... See full summary »
Stars: Nat 'King' Cole, Ted Heath, Cliff Adams, Renauld Jones
Votes: 23
28. Julius Caesar (1964 TV Movie)
Drama, History
The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony.
Directors: Michael Croft, John Vernon | Stars: Jeremy Anthony, Mary Grimes, Hywel Bennett, Neil Stacy
29. Hamlet at Elsinore (1964 TV Movie)
170 min | Drama
Hamlet suspects his uncle has murdered his father to claim the throne of Denmark and the hand of Hamlet's mother, but the Prince cannot decide whether or not he should take vengeance.
Director: Philip Saville | Stars: Christopher Plummer, Robert Shaw, Alec Clunes, Michael Caine
Votes: 245
30. Kiss Me Kate (1964 TV Movie)
95 min | Musical, Romance
The real-life marriage of theater stars Lily and Fred resembles that of Petruchio and Katharina in "The Taming Of The Shrew", in which they are performing.
Director: David Askey | Stars: Patricia Morison, Howard Keel, Millicent Martin, Eric Barker
Votes: 26
31. The Alberts' Channel Too (1964 TV Movie)
30 min | Comedy
The crazy launch to BBC2 starring The Alberts alongside linkman Ivor Cutler
Stars: Ivor Cutler, Dougie Gray, Tony Gray, Bruce Lacey
32. Allan in Wonderland (1964 TV Movie)
40 min | Comedy
Stars: The George Mitchell Singers, Allan Sherman, Ronnie Aldrich and The Squadronaires
33. Culloden (1964 TV Movie)
69 min | Drama, History, War
The 1746 Battle of Culloden, the last land battle fought in the British Isles and the battle that ensured that Scotland was controlled by England.
Director: Peter Watkins | Stars: Tony Cosgrove, Olivier Espitalier-Noel, Don Fairservice, George McBean
Votes: 1,726
34. Coriolanus (1965 TV Movie)
150 min | Drama, History
A banished hero of Rome allies with a sworn enemy to take his revenge on the city.
Directors: Michael Croft, Roger Jenkins | Stars: John Nightingale, Tim Meats, Timothy Block, David Stockton
Votes: 8
35. Love's Labour's Lost (1965 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 110 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A scholarly king and his three companions swear off the society of women for three years, only to have a diplomatic visit from a French princess and her three ladies-in-waiting thwart their intentions.
Directors: Roger Jenkins, Val May | Stars: Bonnie Hurren, Michael Jayston, Rowena Cooper, Peter Baldwin
Votes: 10
37. The Good Soldier Schweik (1965 TV Movie)
60 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Schweik is regarded by most people as a bad soldier and a bit of a buffoon. But he has the ability to stay alive in a war.
Director: Michael Simpson | Stars: Joss Ackland, Graham Armitage, Kenneth Colley, John Collin
38. Macbeth (1966 TV Movie)
R | 104 min | Drama
Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.
Director: Michael Simpson | Stars: Andrew Keir, Ruth Meyers, Anthony Bate, Michael Beint
39. Isadora (1966 TV Movie)
65 min | Biography
The outrageous life of the American dancer of the 1920s, Isadora Duncan, whom Ken Russell described as "part genius and part charlatan".
Director: Ken Russell | Stars: Vivian Pickles, Peter Bowles, Alexei Jawdokimov, Murray Melvin
Votes: 284
40. Alice in Wonderland (1966 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 72 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
A girl named Alice falls down a rabbit-hole and wanders into the strange Wonderland.
Director: Jonathan Miller | Stars: Anne-Marie Mallik, Freda Dowie, Jo Maxwell Muller, Wilfrid Brambell
Votes: 970
41. Much Ado About Nothing (1967 TV Movie)
125 min | Comedy, Romance
Young lovers Hero (Caroline John) and Claudio (Michael Byrne), soon to wed, conspire to get verbal sparring partners and confirmed singles Benedick (Robert Stephens) and Beatrice (Dame Maggie Smith) to wed as well.
Director: Alan Cooke | Stars: Alan Adams, Chloe Ashcroft, David Belcher, Michael Byrne
Votes: 42
42.
Television Theatre From... (1968– )
Episode:
Sinking Fish Move Sideways
(1968)
30 min | Drama
A story about two people who meet on a train, She (Cooper) is on the way to visit her husband in prison, He (Breslin) to identify his wife's body.
Director: Brian Hulme | Stars: John Breslin, Rowena Cooper, Gilbert Wynne, Frank Veasey
Votes: 8
43. The Merry Widow (1968 TV Movie)
105 min | Musical
Operetta concerning a rich widow, and her countrymen's attempt to keep her money in the principality by finding her the right husband.
Director: John Gorrie | Stars: Mary Costa, Jeremy Brett, Joyce Blackham, Ryland Davies
Votes: 31
44. Pickwick (1969 TV Movie)
90 min | Musical
Set in England in 1828, the story centres on wealthy Samuel Pickwick and his valet Sam Weller, who are in a debtors' prison where they recall the misadventures that led to their ... See full summary »
Director: Terry Hughes | Stars: Harry Secombe, Roy Castle, Hattie Jacques, Aubrey Woods
Votes: 7
45. Tower of London: The Innocent (1969 TV Movie)
50 min | Drama, History
Worried that the presence of the imprisoned Earl of Warwick will threaten his dynasty, Henry has him entrapped into an act of treason to justify his execution.
Director: Jonathan Alwyn | Stars: John Abineri, Bernard Archard, Paul Bacon, Peter Copley
Votes: 13
46. The Distracted Preacher (1969 TV Movie)
49 min | Drama
Director: Brandon Acton-Bond | Stars: Stephanie Beacham, Christopher Gable, Michael Goldie, Ewan Hooper
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