Festival

Episode 2

Colombe

Episode 3

The Old Ladies

Episode 4

Peking Opera

Episode 5

Julius Caesar

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.

Episode 6

Ring Around the Moon

Twin brothers with very different personalities are in conflict over the love of a less than worthy woman. One brother comes up with an ingenious solution to the problem.

Episode 7

Home of the Brave

In the jungle, during war, racial prejudice seems likely to destroy the teamwork of American soldiers.

Episode 8

Lord Arthur Savile's Crime

When a fortune-teller informs Lord Arthur that he's soon to commit a murder, he elects to do it as soon as possible, to get it out of the way before his impending marriage.

Episode 9

Elektra

Episode 10

The Subject Is Beethoven

Episode 11

The Three Sisters

Olga, Masha, and Irina Prozoroff lead lonely and purposeless lives following the death of their father who has commanded the local army post. Olga attempts to find satisfaction in teaching but secretly longs for a home and family. Masha, unhappy with her marriage to a timid schoolmaster, falls hopelessly in love with a married colonel. Irina works in the local telegraph office but longs for gaiety. Their sense of futility is increased by their brother's marriage to Natasha, a coarse peasant girl. She gradually encroaches on the family home until even the private refuge of the sisters is destroyed. They dream of starting a new life in Moscow but are saddled with the practicalities of their quiet existence. Despite their past failures, they resolve to seek some purpose and hope when the army post is withdrawn from the town.

Episode 12

Night Must Fall

A charming handyman beguiles an old lady and her niece - who don't realize he's a murderer.

Episode 13

The Dumb Waiter/The Zoo Story

A couple of one-act two-handers - in "The Zoo Story", a middle-class man is harangued by a stranger in the park, whilst in "The Dumb Waiter", two hit-men waiting for their target are disorientated by mysterious messages.

Episode 14

Orphee

Episode 15

Great Expectations

Pip, a poor orphan, meets a convict in a graveyard and is later taken to Satis House, where he meets the sinister Miss Havisham and also her ward Estella.

Episode 16

Royal Gambit

Episode 17

Pictures in the Hallway

Episode 18

The Dybbuk

A young bride is possessed by a dybbuk, a malicious possessing spirit, believed to be the dislocated soul of a dead person, on the eve of her wedding.

Episode 19

The Police

Episode 20

Falstaff

Episode 40

The Devil Makes Three