Around the Beatles

Around the Beatles 1964

1

The show opens on an image of the Globe Theatre, with Ringo Starr unfurling a flag with the legend "Around The Beatles". The studio setting is arranged as a theater in the round, (hence the show's name) echoing the seating arrangement of the Globe. The opening act is a humorous rendition of the "play within a play", Pyramus and Thisbe (Act V, Scene I) from William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, with Paul McCartney as Pyramus, John Lennon as his lover Thisbe, George Harrison as Moonshine, and Starr as Lion.

1964

Dial M for Murder

Dial M for Murder 1967

6.00

A made-for-television remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 film.

1967

The Gentleman Caller

The Gentleman Caller 1967

5.50

Visiting unemployed brothers Clack and Ged, social security inspector Mr. Hicks finds few reasons for sympathy. However, the tables are turned on the investigator: Clack defends Ged as 'a paying member of the welfare state' rather than a case for charity, and events take a sinister turn.

1967

George's Room

George's Room 1967

7.00

A man is interviewed by a young widow as a potential lodger, and learns some disturbing facts about the woman's relationship with her dead husband.

1967

Vacant Possession

Vacant Possession 1966

1

An estate agent arranges to meet a couple for a viewing at a flat.

1966

The Fifty-Seventh Saturday

The Fifty-Seventh Saturday 1968

4.00

Mavie cannot declare her love, because the object of her affections is a very busy man.

1968

Robert

Robert 1967

1

A schoolteacher mourning the death of her mother keeps an inattentive student behind one day after class, but from there things spiral, calling her ability to teach into question.

1967

Thief

Thief 1968

1

A lady catches the attention of a compulsive gambler.

1968

Stella

Stella 1968

5.00

Stella escapes an unhappy relationship to live in a bedsit. She meets another man which forces her to make decisions about her life.

1968

Goodnight Albert

Goodnight Albert 1968

5.00

Albert lives with his Grandma, who he thinks is cramping his style. However an incident reveals to him that he is as much dependent on her as she is of him.

1968

Shelter

Shelter 1967

5.00

A woman seeks shelter from the rain in a park conservatory but is forced into conversation with a man who wants to know what else she is sheltering from.

1967