Theatre 625 (1964) is a drama web series in English. On MovieLinkBD: full story, cast, ratings, season & episode guide, official trailer and where to watch Theatre 625 online in HD.
Theatre 625 — Storyline
Theatre 625 is a British television drama anthology series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1964 to 1968. It was one of the first regular programmes in the line-up of the channel, and the title referred to its production and transmission being in the higher-definition 625-line format, which only BBC2 used at the time.
Cast & Crew
- Created by: Michael Bakewell, Cedric Messina
Theatre 625 — Series Details
| First Air Date | 1964-05-03 |
| Seasons | 5 |
| Episodes | 115 |
| Genre | Drama |
| Language | English |
| Network | BBC Two |
| Status | Ended |
| Rating | 7.2/10 (5 votes) |
Theatre 625 — Episode Guide
Series 1
- E1: The Seekers: The Heretics (1964-05-03) — Three plays on the theme of man and belief by Ken Taylor.
- E2: The Seekers: The Idealists (1964-05-10) — Three plays on the theme of man and belief by Ken Taylor.
- E3: The Seekers: The Materialists (1964-05-17) — Three plays on the theme of man and belief by Ken Taylor.
- E4: All the Conspirators: The Ides of March (1964-07-05) — The events leading up to the assassination of Julius Caesar.
- E5: All the Conspirators: The Just (1964-07-12) — A group of revolutionaries plot a political assassination.
Series 2
- E1: Women in Crisis: Husband and Wife (1964-09-20) — The first of three plays by Colin Morris.
- E2: Women in Crisis: With Love and Tears (1964-09-27) — The second of three plays by Colin Morris.
- E3: Women in Crisis: My Grandmother (1964-10-04) — The third of a trilogy by Colin Morris. Paintings by children of the Horncastle School, East Grinstead.
- E4: Carried by Storm (1964-10-25)
- E5: Parade's End: Some Do Not (1964-12-06) — A trilogy by Ford Madox Ford.
- E6: Parade's End: No More Parades (1964-12-13) — A trilogy by Ford Madox Ford.
- E7: Parade's End: A Man Could Stand Up (1964-12-20) — A trilogy by Ford Madox Ford.
- E8: The Minister (1965-01-03)
- E9: Poor Bitos (1965-02-07)
- E10: The Physicists (1965-02-14) — Three patients in a lunatic asylum all claim to be famous physicists. One of them – but which? · actually is a famous physicist, and the agents of a foreign power want his knowledg
- E11: Progress to the Park (1965-03-14) — Three plays by Alun Owen.
- E12: No Trams to Lime Street (1965-03-21) — Three plays by Alun Owen.
- E13: A Little Winter Love (1965-03-28) — Three plays by Alun Owen.
- E14: Ironhand (1965-04-11) — 16th-century mercenary knight Götz von Berlichingen loses his right hand in battle and has a prosthetic iron hand commissioned.
- E15: Try For White (1965-04-18)
- E16: Unman, Wittering and Zigo (1965-06-27) — John Ebony begins a new career as a schoolteacher — and begins to suspect certain pupils of murder.
- E17: Seek Her Out (1965-07-04) — Anne Follister witnesses an assassination on the London Underground and becomes the next would-be victim of the perpetrators.
- E18: The Long House (1965-07-11) — Young couple Ben and Kathie buy the end house in a South London Terrace, only to discover that their neighbours have knocked through all their interior walls to form a single commu
Series 3
- E1: Esther's Altar (1965-09-05) — In 1916 Dublin is a story of love and hatred, engendered by the Irish Rebellion.
- E2: David, Chapter 2 (1965-09-19)
- E3: Rosmersholm (1965-09-26) — The young and liberated Rebekka West wants Pastor Rosmer. However, will his pondering and his wife's suicide ruin their relationship?
- E4: Miss Julie (1965-10-03) — Miss Julie has a torrid, strange relationship with her servant Jean.
- E5: Hermit Crabs (1965-10-10)
- E6: Enter Solly Gold (1965-10-17) — Con artist Solly Gold convinces a Jewish millionaire that he is the Messiah in order to steal his money.
- E7: The Siege of Manchester (1965-10-31) — A German mercenary is hired to defend the small township of Manchester during the English Civil War.
- E8: The World of George Orwell: Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1965-11-07) — Gordon Comstock dreams of being a great poet and giving up his dreary career in advertising. But advertising pays and poetry doesn't.
- E9: The World of George Orwell: Coming Up for Air (1965-11-21) — With war looming, middle-aged George Bowling reminisces about the lost world of his village upbringing.
- E10: The World of George Orwell: 1984 (1966-11-28) — In a totalitarian future society, a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.
- E11: Portraits from the North: The Nutter (1965-12-05)
- E12: Portraits from the North: Bruno (1965-12-19)
- E13: Yob and Nabob (1965-12-26)
- E14: Doctor Knock (1966-01-02) — After meeting the nefarious Doctor Knock, a number of respectable citizens in a French town become convinced that they are very ill.
- E15: Focus (1966-01-09) — Towards the end of WWII, a Brooklyn man is mistaken for a Jew by anti-Semitic neighbours, forcing him to consider the nature of prejudice.
- E16: The Wesker Trilogy, Part 1: Chicken Soup with Barley (1966-01-23) — A Jewish family from in London strive to maintain their 1930s Communist beliefs, through the War and the rise of Stalin, to the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.
- E17: The Wesker Trilogy, Part 2: Roots (1966-01-30) — A uneducated Norfolk girl matures into a confident woman.
- E18: The Wesker Trilogy, Part 3: I'm Talking About Jerusalem (1966-02-06) — A London couple move to an isolated Norfolk cottage and try to live off the land.
- E19: Kiss on a Grass Green Pillow (1966-02-13)
- E20: A Man Like That (1966-02-27)
- E21: Simon and Laura (1966-03-06) — An argumentative theatrical couple are persuaded to appear as harmonious versions of themselves in a television series filmed in their own home.
- E22: The Queen and Jackson (1966-03-13)
- E23: A Month in the Country (1966-03-20) — In this rendering of the Turgenev play, a woman toys with a young admirer's affections while spending a month at a country estate.
- E24: The Seagull (1966-03-27) — Young playwright Konstantin is in love with aspiring actress Nina, who in turn is infatuated with his famous writer lover Trigorin.
- E25: Twelfth Hour (1966-04-03)
- E26: The Queen and the Welshman (1966-04-10) — The story of Queen Katherine, widow of Henry V, and her affair with Welsh hero of Agincourt, Sir Owen Tudor.
- E27: Final Demand (1966-04-24)
- E28: Semi-Detached (1966-05-01)
- E29: She Stoops to Conquer (1966-05-29) — Hardcastle, a man of substance, looks forward to acquainting his daughter with his old pal's son with a view to marriage. But thanks to playboy Lumpkin, he's mistaken by his prospe
- E30: Up and Down (1966-06-05)
- E31: Marianne (1966-06-12)
- E32: The Melody Suit (1966-06-19)
- E33: On the March to the Sea (1966-07-17) — During the American Civil War, a Southern patriarch finds his house occupied by enemy soldiers.
- E34: How to Get Rid of Your Husband (1966-07-24)
- E35: Girl of My Dreams (1966-07-31)
Series 4
- E1: Talking to a Stranger, Part 1: Anytime You're Ready I'll Sparkle (1966-10-02) — Over the course of a single weekend, the Stevens family's lives will change forever.
- E2: Talking to a Stranger, Part 2: No Skill or Special Knowledge is Required (1966-10-09) — Over the course of a single weekend, the Stevens family's lives will change forever.
- E3: Talking to a Stranger, Part 3: Gladly My Cross-Eyed Bear (1966-10-16) — Over the course of a single weekend, the Stevens family's lives will change forever.
- E4: Talking to a Stranger, Part 4: The Innocent Must Suffer (1966-10-23) — Over the course of a single weekend, the Stevens family's lives will change forever.
- E5: Conquest: The Encounter (1966-10-29)
- E6: Conquest: The Leopard and the Dragon (1966-10-30)
- E7: Amerika (1966-11-06) — After a minor scandal involving a servant girl, young Karl is packed off to America, a land he finds distinctly strange.
- E8: The Family Reunion (1966-11-27) — Dark secrets emerge when a family gathers for a birthday party at their country house.
- E9: Anatol (1966-12-04)
- E10: Sword of Honour, Part 1: Men at Arms (1967-01-02) — Prevented by his strict Roman Catholicism from divorcing his faithless wife, Guy Crouchback prepares for war in 1939.
- E11: Sword of Honour, Part 2: Officers and Gentlemen (1967-01-09) — As he journeys through the Second World War, Crouchback undergoes various grotesque adventures, both comic and tragic.
- E12: Sword of Honour, Part 3: Unconditional Surrender (1967-01-16) — At the end of the war, Crouchback ponders his future.
- E13: A Slight Ache (1967-02-06) — Married couple Edward and Flora explore their dreams and desires, primarily Edward's fears of the unknown, of aging, and of the 'Other' as a threat to his self-identity.
- E14: A Night Out (1967-02-13) — Albert, a shy and repressed young man who lives with his mother, is persuaded to go for 'a night out' with his workmates; it turns nightmarish.
- E15: The Basement (1967-02-20) — An uneasy friendship between an introspective loner and a more gregarious man is renewed when the latter turns up at the former's basement flat one rainy night accompanied by an en
- E16: Hotel Torpe (1967-03-13)
- E17: As a Man Grows Older (1967-04-03)
- E18: Kain (1967-04-17) — Brothers Kain and Rattler Sutherland live on a Northern Territory station. The unstable Kain clashes with the more laid-back Rattler over several issues – money, treatment of local
- E19: The Loser (1967-05-01)
- E20: The Winner (1967-05-08)
- E21: The Fantasist (1967-05-15)
- E22: The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (1967-05-29)
- E23: The Blood Knot (1967-06-12)
- E24: Henry IV (1967-06-26) — In twentieth-century Italy, a man insists that he is Enrico Quattro, an Italian monarch from centuries before. Obviously, he's a madman – isn't he?
- E25: Firebrand (1967-07-02)
- E26: The Plough and the Stars (1967-07-16) — A husband clashes with his wife over his membership to the Irish citizen army.
- E27: Tickle Times (1967-07-30)
- E28: 55 Columns (1967-08-06)
- E29: Stan's Day Out (1967-08-13)
- E30: The Cupboard (1967-08-20)
Series 5
- E1: The Memorandum (1967-09-24)
- E2: The Lost Years of Brian Hooper (1967-10-08)
- E3: The Magicians: Dr Dee, Kelly and the Spirits (1967-10-15)
- E4: The Magicians: The Incantation of Casanova (1967-10-22)
- E5: The Magicians: Edmund Gurney and the Brighton Mesmerist (1967-10-29)
- E6: The Single Passion (1967-11-05)
- E7: The Burning Bush (1967-11-12)
- E8: Kittens Are Brave (1967-11-26)
- E9: Lieutenant Tenant (1967-12-04)
- E10: Play with a Tiger (1967-12-18)
- E11: To See How Far It Is: Murphy's Law (1968-01-01) — Murphy is a humble pen-pusher in a cardboard box factory who tries to brighten his life with home movies, tape-recording, and homemade wine. But success can come from failure…
- E12: To See How Far It Is: The Curse of the Donkins (1968-01-08)
- E13: To See How Far It Is: To See How Far It Is (1968-01-15)
- E14: Albinos in Black (1968-01-22)
- E15: The Swallow's Nest (1968-01-29)
- E16: The Lady Is a Liar (1968-02-26)
- E17: To the Frontier (1968-03-04)
- E18: Party Games (1968-03-11) — A German businessman develops an obsessive passion for a girl he picks up in an East End pub. But she, and her brother, are playing their own game.
- E19: The Fall of Kelvin Walker (1968-04-22)
- E20: The Fanatics (1968-04-29) — An account of the famous 'Calas case', in which Voltaire managed, at great personal risk, to set right an injustice.
- E21: Home, Sweet Honeycomb (1968-05-13) — Anyone who doesn't conform to bourgeois norms in a post-apocalyptic world is ritually executed.
- E22: The Pistol Shot (1968-05-20)
- E23: The Life Class (1968-05-27)
- E24: All's Well That Ends Well (1968-06-03) — A woman is given in marriage to the man she longs for, but, because she's of lower rank, he refuses to accept. It becomes her challenge to win his acceptance.
- E25: Wind Versus Polygamy (1968-07-15) — When Councillor Ogidi and Mr Madu come to Chief Ozuomba's court, both wanting to marry Elina, the Chief sees his chance to oppose the new anti-polygamy law.
- E26: The Year of the Sex Olympics (1968-07-29) — In a future where the world is dominated and run by television, where language has become almost redundant and all 'tensions' – love, war, hate, loyalty – have been removed, overpo
- E27: Mille Miglia (1968-08-05)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many seasons does Theatre 625 have? 5 season(s) with 115 episodes.
Who created Theatre 625? Michael Bakewell, Cedric Messina.
Where can I watch Theatre 625? See the Where to Watch section above for current streaming options.