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Patricia Hayes in an award winning performance as a rude, aggressive, but fiercely proud vagrant.

Corporal Halliday wants to buy his way out of the army but he is not allowed to until he has served six years. Corporal Halliday has only served three.

Drama recounting the efforts of a ground-breaking producer and a blacklisted director to televise the trial of Adolf Eichmann. An astonishing true story behind a moment in television history.

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.

A handsome, sexy and completely amoral young man, joins Kath's household as a lodger and proceeds to manipulate her and her brother. Joe Orton's play made its television debut almost a year after the author was bludgeoned to death by his partner.

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

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

The gripping account of how Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's government handled the biggest crisis in British foreign affairs since the Suez Canal.

An ageing cricketer's last match is marred by his poor final innings, but the arrival of his pretentious, sport-hating son brightens the day in Terence Rattigan's debut television comedy.

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.