List of Theatre 625 episodes

Theatre 625 is a British television drama anthology series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1964 to 1968. It was one of the first regular programmes in the line-up of the channel, and the title referred to its production and transmission being in the higher-definition 625-line format, which only BBC2 used at the time.

The primary list source is the BFI Film & TV database. The masterlist is here. With a certain irregularity in transmission, breaking the list down into specific seasons is likely to be arbitrary, with variants between sources; the BFI website has been followed, except (as noted) where the lostshows website diverged in a few instances. The Internet Movie Database and the BBC Genome database (of Radio Times listings) have been used as a check, and occasionally as the main source. The information about survival status in the last column is taken from the TV Archive and The Kaleidoscope BBC Television Drama Research Guide, 1936–2011 ^[1] and are correct as of 9 June 2025. A handful of the surviving episodes have been commercially released on DVD; these are footnoted.

List of episodes

Legend: Se = Season; Ep = Episode; AS/A = Archive status/Availability
Abbreviations: tr =Telerecording; seq = sequence(s); VT = video tape

All known copies are black & white, except where stated otherwise.

Se	Ep	Title	Author	Producer	Director	Performers	UK Transmission date	AS/A
1	1	The Seekers: The Heretics	Ken Taylor	Cedric Messina	Alvin Rakoff	Michael Bryant, Derek Godfrey, Rosemary Leach, Newton Blick, Robert James, Kevin Brennan, David Hutcheson, Ivor Salter, Murray Evans, Joseph Greig, Timothy West	3 May 1964	35mm tr
1	2	The Seekers: The Idealists				Michael Bryant, Patrick Allen, Suzanne Neve, John Robinson, Brian Haynes, Peter Welch, David J. Grahame, Vernon Dobtcheff, Brian Vaughan	10 May 1964	35mm tr
1	3	The Seekers: The Materialists				Michael Bryant, Geoffrey Bayldon, Sylvia Kay, John Welsh, John Lee, Edward Brayshaw, Ronald Lacey	17 May 1964	35mm tr
1	4	All the Conspirators: The Ides of March	Jerome Kilty based on the novel by Thornton Wilder.	Cedric Messina	Naomi Capon	Hugh Burden, Tim Preece, Douglas Wilmer, Fenella Fielding, Alexander Davion, Judy Campbell, Anna Middleton, Michael Gough, Declan Mulholland	5 Jul 1964	Lost
1	5	All the Conspirators: The Just	Albert Camus (play, The Just Assassins )	Cedric Messina	Alan Cooke	James Maxwell, Ann Lynn, Lyndon Brook, John Castle, David Buck, Reg Lye, Roland Brand, Robert Eddison, Ruth Dunning	12 Jul 1964	Lost
2	1	Women in Crisis: Husband and Wife	Colin Morris	Cedric Messina	Naomi Capon	Wendy Craig, John Ronane, Barry Keegan, Elizabeth Wallace, Alison Leggatt, John Robinson, Michael Goodliffe, Edward Fox, Vivien Heilbron, Richard Brooke	20 Sep 1964	Lost
2	2	Women in Crisis: With Love and Tears			William Slater	Katharine Blake, Nigel Green, Alan Baulch, Margot Robinson, Margaret Ward, Margaret Denyer, Michael Brennan, Peter Thornton	27 Sep 1964 [2]	16mm tr
2	3	Women in Crisis: My Grandmother			George R. Foa	Janina Faye, Dilys Hamlett, Anthony Singleton, Philip Latham, Veronica Turleigh, John Humphry, Paul Farrell, Vi Delmar, Brian Peck, Meriel Hobson	4 Oct 1964	16mm tr
2	4	Carried by Storm	Giles Cooper	Cedric Messina	Donald McWhinnie	Simon Ward, Tim Preece, Peter Marinker, Nicholas Courtney, Pauline Delaney, Mary Haneffey, Ronald Lacey, Roslyn De Winter, John Dearth, John Flint, Brian Badcoe, Denys Hawthorne, Nicholas Pennell, Colin Spaull, Tim Goodman	25 Oct 1964	Lost
2	5	Parade's End: Some Do Not	Ford Madox Ford (novels); John Hopkins (adaptation)	Cedric Messina	Alan Cooke	Ronald Hines, Fulton Mackay, Darroll Richards, Charles Carson, Ronald Leigh-Hunt, Sylvia Coleridge, Godfrey Quigley, Jeanne Moody, Judi Dench, Annette Robertson, Tony Steedman Frank Gatliff, Inigo Jackson, Gerry Wain, Robert James, Erik Chitty, Nicholas Pennell	6 Dec 1964	16mm tr [3]
2	6	Parade's End: No More Parades				Jeanne Moody, Ronald Hines, Sylvia Kay, Ronald Leigh-Hunt, Judi Dench, Arthur Pentelow, Fulton MacKay, Nicholas Pennell, Talfryn Thomas, Colin Jeavons, Tony Steedman	13 Dec 1964	16mm tr [3]
2	7	Parade's End: A Man Could Stand Up				Judi Dench, Ruth Porcher, Ronald Hines, Arthur White, Michel Ray, Bryan Hunt, Charles Houston, Arthur Lovegrove, Shane Rimmer, Edward Burnham, Douglas Ditta, Philip Stone, Derrick Gilbert, Peter Purves, Tony Steedman, Barry Jackson, Maurice Selwyn	20 Dec 1964	35mm tr [3]
2	8	The Minister	John O'Toole	Eric Tayler	Peter Potter	Michael Gough, Jessica Dunning, Nadia Cattouse, Barbara Jefford, Earl Cameron, Mark Dignam, Roger Livesey, Noel Johnson, Bernard Horsfall, Denis Carey, Thomasine Heiner, Antony Webb, Ralph Michael	3 Jan 1965	Lost
2	9	Poor Bitos	Jean Anouilh (play, Pauvre Bitos ou le Dîner de têtes); Lucienne Hill (translator)	Cedric Messina	Donald McWhinnie	John Neville, Noel Davis, Rolf Lefebvre, Penelope Horner, Anne Cunningham, Patrick Allen, Geoffrey Chater, James Villiers, Nicholas Pennell, Gemma Jones, Tony Calvin	7 Feb 1965	Lost
2	10	The Physicists	Friedrich Dürrenmatt (play), James Kirkup (translation)	Peter Luke	Cedric Messina	Mary Morris, Tom Watson, Hayden Jones, John Bennett, Michael Kilgarriff, Neil McCarthy	14 Feb 1965 [4]	Lost
2	11	Progress to the Park	Alun Owen (play)	Cedric Messina	Christopher Morahan	Ken Jones, John Scott Martin, Will Leighton, Gavin Reed, Patrick McAlliney, John McBride, Walter Swash, David Nott, Gerald McAllister, Malcolm Taylor, Eddie Mallin, Peter McEnery, Patrick Tull	14 Mar 1965	16mm tr
2	12	No Trams to Lime Street	Alun Owen (remake of 1959 TV play)	Cedric Messina	David J. Thomas	Mike Pratt, Tom Bell, Anthony Hall, Clifford Evans, Ishaq Bux, Alister Williamson, Islwyn Morris, June Barry	21 Mar 1965	Lost
2	13	A Little Winter Love	Alun Owen	Cedric Messina		Jack Hedley, Peter Dyneley, Lelia Goldoni, Sylvia Kay, Mike Pratt, Artro Morris, Nerys Hughes	28 Mar 1965	Lost
2	14	Ironhand	J. W. Goethe (play Götz von Berlichingen ); John Arden (adaptation)	Cedric Messina	Rudolph Cartier	Roger Jones, William Dysart, Edward Purdom, Michael Brennan, Denis Cleary, Gertan Klauber, Marshall Jones, Stanley Lebor, Michael Goodliffe, Nicholas Evans, John Glyn-Jones, Graham Leaman, Ian Ogilvy, Jerome Willis, David Dodimead, Michael Mulcaster, Derek Sydney, Roy Pattison	11 Apr 1965	16mm tr
2	15	Try For White	Basil Warner	Cedric Messina	Alan Gibson	Yootha Joyce, Joss Ackland, Gary Bond, Zoe Randall, Marda Vanne, Nan Munro, Maxine Holden	18 Apr 1965	Lost
2	16	Unman, Wittering and Zigo	Giles Cooper	Cedric Messina	Donald McWhinnie	Peter Blythe, John Sharp, Peter Howell, Tamara Kinchco, Noel Davis, Ann Way, Norman Wynne, Jeremy Ranchev, Roger Shepherd, Robert Dodson, Roger Bradley, Michael Wenning, Christopher Witty, Dane Howell, Dennis Waterman, Hywel Bennett, Norman Bacon	27 Jun 1965	35mm tr
2	17	Seek Her Out		Cedric Messina	Alan Gibson	Toby Robins, Anthony Newlands, Zakes Mokae, Edward Brayshaw, John Woodvine, Robert James, Peter Diamond	4 Jul 1965	35mm tr - reels 2 & 3 only of 3
2	18	The Long House		Cedric Messina	Naomi Capon	David Buck, Caroline Mortimer, Toke Townley, Joan Hickson, Arthur Pentelow, Thomas Baptiste, Sheila Grant, Frederick Piper, Winifred Dennis, John Herrington, Reg Lever	11 Jul 1965	35mm tr
3	1	Esther's Altar	Paul Smith	Cedric Messina	Alan Gibson	Kevin McHugh, Margaret D'Arcy, Betty McDowell, Barry Keegan, Pauline Delaney, Audrey Corr, Jack MacGowran, Liam Gaffney, James Caffrey, Anna Manahan, Dermot Tuohy, Graham Leaman	5 Sep 1965	Lost
3	2	David, Chapter 2 [5]	M. Charles Cohen	Harvey Hart for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation		Donnelly Rhodes, Toby Tarnow, Powys Thomas, Lynne Gorman	19 Sep 1965 [6]	Unknown
3	3	Rosmersholm	Henrik Ibsen (play); Ann Jellicoe (translation)	Cedric Messina	Michael Barry	Peggy Ashcroft, Knut Wigert, Mark Dignam, Angela Baddeley, Morris Perry, John Laurie	26 Sep 1965	16mm tr
3	4	Miss Julie	August Strindberg (play); Alan Bridges (adaptation)	Cedric Messina	Alan Bridges	Gunnel Lindblom, Ian Hendry, Stephanie Bidmead	3 Oct 1965	35mm tr
3	5	Hermit Crabs	Mary Hayley Bell	Cedric Messina	Gilchrist Calder	Annette Crosbie, Anthony Booth, Billy Cornelius, [7] Clyde Pollitt, Gladys Henson, Anne Blake, Bill Cartwright, William Moore	10 Oct 1965	Lost
3	6	Enter Solly Gold	Bernard Kops (play)	Cedric Messina	Stuart Burge	Bob Monkhouse, Linda Polan, Terence Sewards, Miriam Margolyes, John Barrard, Lilly Kann, Cyril Shaps, George Layton	17 Oct 1965	35mm tr sequences only
3	7	The Siege of Manchester	Keith Dewhurst	Cedric Messina	Herbert Wise	Alan Dobie, Doris Wellings, Eve Pearce, Eileen WintertonẨ, Derek Benfield, André Morell, Sian Davies, John Dearth, Reginald Barratt, Donald Eccles, Frazer Hines, Harry Littlewood, Kevin Stoney, Brian Peck, Jeremy Spenser, David Valla, Malcolm Taylor, Michael Davis	31 Oct 1965	Lost
3	8	The World of George Orwell: Keep the Aspidistra Flying	George Orwell (novel); Robin Chapman (adaptation)	Cedric Messina	Christopher Morahan	Alfred Lynch, Charles Hodgson, Winifred Dennis, Marie Hopps, Sydney Bromley, Hilda Barry, Clive Elliott, Anne Stallybrass, Norman Mitchell, Sydney Arnold, Sheila Grant, Bartlett Mullins, Alec Wallis	7 Nov 1965	Lost
3	9	The World of George Orwell: Coming Up for Air	George Orwell (novel); Robin Chapman (adaptation)			Colin Blakely, Frederick Farley, Maitland Moss, Larry Dann, Carmel McSharry, Ann Way, Peggy Aitchison, Reginald Jessup, Howard Lang, Patrick Godfrey, Clifford Cox	21 Nov 1965	Lost
3	10	The World of George Orwell: 1984 [8]	George Orwell (novel); Nigel Kneale (adaptation)			David Buck, Joseph O'Conor, Vernon Dobtcheff, Jane Merrow, Cyril Shaps, Norman Chappell, Sally Lahee, John Garrie, John Mincer, Peter Bathurst, John Brandon, Eric Francis, Sydney Arnold, David Grey, John Abineri, Michael Sheard, Brian Badcoe	28 Nov 1965	NTSC VT of 16mm tr (damage to one scene)
3	11	Portraits From the North: The Nutter	Alan Plater	Cedric Messina	Alan Gibson	Milo O'Shea, Ronald Lacey, Mike Pratt, Tristram Jellinek, Henry Soskin, Sidney Gatcum, Faith Curtis, Ken Parry, Joseph O'Conor, Helen Fraser, Yootha Joyce, John Cater, Richard Mathews	5 Dec 1965	Lost
3	12	Portraits From the North: Bruno	Ronald Eyre	Cedric Messina	Ronald Eyre	John Phillips, Ronnie Barker, Anne Stallybrass, Hazel Cooper, John Gill, Noel Dyson, Barry Jackson, Susan Hanson, Fred Ferris, Gary Files, Barbara Miller	19 Dec 1965	Lost
3	13	A Piece of Resistance	Terence Dudley	Cedric Messina	Geoffrey Nethercott	Lally Bowers, William Kendall, Frederick Jaeger, James Villiers	26 Dec 1965 [9]	Lost
3	14	Doctor Knock	Jules Romains (play, Knock ou le Triomphe de la médecine) Harley Granville-Barker (translator)	Cedric Messina	Herbert Wise	Mavis Villiers, Leonard Rossiter, John Le Mesurier, Jimmy Gardner, James Grout, Graham Armitage, Robert Gillespie, Patrick Godfrey	2 Jan 1966	16mm tr
3	15	Focus	Arthur Miller (novel); Ruth Sheale (adaptation)	Michael Bakewell	Alan Gibson	Vivien Merchant, Ray McAnally, Sydney Tafler, Joss Ackland, Lucille Fenton, Larry Cross, Pearl Catlin, Donald Sutherland, Glenn Beck, Martin Miller	9 Jan 1966	Lost
3	16	The Wesker Trilogy, Part 1: Chicken Soup with Barley	Arnold Wesker (play)	Cedric Messina	Charles Jarrott	Margery Mason, Clive Revill, Stanley Meadows, John Allison, Sonia Fraser, Stella Tanner, [[Ha References Coward, Simon; Down, Richard; Perry, Chris (2011). The Kaleidoscope BBC Television Drama Research Guide 1936–2011. Kaleidoscope Publishing. pp. 2508–2519. Repeated as a Wednesday Play on 23 June 1965, in place of the postponed Vote, Vote, Vote for Nigel Barton . Released on DVD in the US, 2013. Originally transmitted on BBC1 21 December 1963. There is at least one exception to the 75-90-minute duration rule. David, Chapter 2 (2.12), a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation production first broadcast there on 20 May 1963 is listed at 60 minutes duration here. Details taken from Radio Times, Issue No.2184, 16 September 1965, p. 17 According to the BFI website, the billing was to Bill Cornelius. 1984 was not Orwell's preferred rendering, but this production used the numerical form. Repeated as a Wednesday Play on 19 October 1966.