Two strangers, both married to others, meet in a railway station and soon find themselves in a brief but intense affair.

A young woman's highly ordered and structured life is turned upside-down when she meets a handsome stranger at a party. Friendship soon develops into romance and for the first time in her life she is truly happy. This happiness is short lived, however, as little by little she discovers her partner has been lying to her about his past. It is soon revealed that he and his friends have been planning to rob the auction house that she works for and they require her inside knowledge in order to pull off the crime.

A proud socialist and community activist wrestles with the decision to accept an honour from the Queen

A train disaster is told in four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them and how they deal with it.

Ingmar Bergman play looking at the cool and brittle relationship between a successful architect (Frank Finlay) and his academic wife (Gemma Jones). Commissioned by the Swedish Broadcasting Corporation on behalf of European members participating in ‘The Largest Theatre in the World’. This, the Radio Times explained, was ‘a project which enabled a play to be broadcast simultaneously in several languages across Europe.’ This UK Play For Today version was directed by Alan Bridges, whilst an American version was put out on CBS, directed by Alex Segal

A boy, a girl, a tramp and a piano with the most amazing effect on people, find each other in a park in a heatwave.

Ben Spray is a fantasist who tries to impress people with outrageous tales of his life. His girlfriend's flatmate, Louise asks him come to a Bonfire Party, exposing himself as the fool but she is lonely and desperate which scares him.

A lawyer's plan to break up his daughter's budding romance backfires when the boyfriend's father becomes involved.