Season 1 Episodes
19 episodes1
The Crucible
In the 17th century, a spiteful teenage girl accuses a man of witchcraft.
2
A Clearing in the Woods
A young woman who is suicidal has visions of herself at different ages - each incarnation trying to give her life meaning.
3
The Secret Agent
A spy in the pay of a foreign power is persuaded against his will to perpetrate an atrocity.
4
Pineapple Poll
5
Summer Time
A lonely American woman unexpectedly finds romance in Venice, Italy.
6
The Cocktail Party
Lavinia has left her husband before a cocktail party. They have both had relationships. A foreign guest, Sir Henry, analyzes their marriage and relationship. Will they find their way back to each other again?
7
The Gioconda Smile
Arrogant Henry Hutton shouldn't have been so unfeeling towards lonely spinster Janet - when his wife dies, he might need her help.
8
The Browning Version
Forced to retire from an English public school. a disliked professor must confront his utter failures as a teacher, a husband, and a man.
9
Tiger at the Gates
Strenuous efforts to prevent the Trojan War from taking place eventually come to nothing.
10
The Thirteen Clocks
11
An Enemy of the People
When a doctor finds that his town's water supply has become polluted, he is astonished to find that his determination to broadcast the truth has made him a pariah in the community.
12
The Importance of Being Earnest
In 1890s London, two friends use the same pseudonym ("Ernest") for their on-the-sly activities. Hilarity ensues.
13
Candida
A teenage poet falls in love with the much older wife of a clergyman.
14
Sir Thomas Beecham Presents Lollipops
15
The Barber of Seville
16
Hedda Gabler
Hedda Gabler looks forward only to a life of suffocating dullness in her marriage to an academic she finds boring. But then the writer with whom she once had a tempestuous relationship returns.
17
Mr. Arcularis
Mr. Arcularis sets off on a long sea voyage to recuperate from a serious surgical operation. But the strangest things start to happen on board ship.
18
A Tongue of Silver
19
The Zeal of Thy House