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Bank manager Mark Telford takes a backward step in his career in order to retreat from the rat race.

Light-hearted drama series about Robby Box, a small-time London gambler, and his long-suffering family.

There aren’t that many series that have an episode entitled "A Wop-Boppa Loo-Bop A Wop-Bam Boom"

An ITV Play of the Week presentation about a seaside fortune teller

First Night presented a series of new plays written for television with an emphasis on action and conflict. The series debuted on BBC with Alan Owen's The Strain on 22 September 1963 and ran through until 1964.

A modern adaptation of the 15th/16th century morality tale The Somonyng of Everyman

These four Noel Coward plays, made by Granada and broadcast over a month in 1964 in their Play Of The Week schedule, were slotted into an abundance of one off dramas being produced by the regional ITV companies at the time.

Crisis comes when auntie decides to leave her cash to a dogs' home. Murder follows.

A young refugee couple stand on the bridge between East and West. The girl is about to have a baby. The frontier guards will not let them pass to the other side. What can they do?

A popular officer is accused of taking money from his Battery safe. His defence rests of his wife's evidence - but will she consent to appear at the court-martial?

Alf Liddell is a quiet, good humoured, home-loving man who prefers to keep out of the limelight. But when Alf is elected to the local council he proves to be a man of principles-so strong that he soon makes powerful enemies.

Flanders, 1918, and young Capt. Dunton deliberately orders his best friend to certain death. What has gone wrong between the two men? And will the Captain's plan succeed?

A young Englishman makes many friends in Vienna, but all of them turn against him with the outbreak of the first world war. After the Armistice, he returns to find nothing but bitterness and despair.

Early outing for Leonard Rossiter in a single drama produced by ITV

A politician's amoral and manipulative scheme to become leader of the governing party and, thus, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

Sitcom about a young woman's struggle to adapt to life after being left by her partner.

A programme about the past, the future and the tension and changing relationship between The Likely Lads; the upwardly mobile Bob Ferris and Terry Collier, who spends most of his time acting as an anchor to Bob’s aspiration.