Theatre 625 – Series 4
Episodes
Talking to a Stranger, Part 1: Anytime You're Ready I'll Sparkle
Over the course of a single weekend, the Stevens family's lives will change forever.
Talking to a Stranger, Part 2: No Skill or Special Knowledge is Required
Over the course of a single weekend, the Stevens family's lives will change forever.
Talking to a Stranger, Part 3: Gladly My Cross-Eyed Bear
Over the course of a single weekend, the Stevens family's lives will change forever.
Talking to a Stranger, Part 4: The Innocent Must Suffer
Over the course of a single weekend, the Stevens family's lives will change forever.
Conquest: The Encounter
Conquest: The Leopard and the Dragon
Amerika
After a minor scandal involving a servant girl, young Karl is packed off to America, a land he finds distinctly strange.
The Family Reunion
Dark secrets emerge when a family gathers for a birthday party at their country house.
Anatol
Sword of Honour, Part 1: Men at Arms
Prevented by his strict Roman Catholicism from divorcing his faithless wife, Guy Crouchback prepares for war in 1939.
Sword of Honour, Part 2: Officers and Gentlemen
As he journeys through the Second World War, Crouchback undergoes various grotesque adventures, both comic and tragic.
Sword of Honour, Part 3: Unconditional Surrender
At the end of the war, Crouchback ponders his future.
A Slight Ache
Married couple Edward and Flora explore their dreams and desires, primarily Edward's fears of the unknown, of aging, and of the 'Other' as a threat to his self-identity.
A Night Out
Albert, a shy and repressed young man who lives with his mother, is persuaded to go for 'a night out' with his workmates; it turns nightmarish.
The Basement
An uneasy friendship between an introspective loner and a more gregarious man is renewed when the latter turns up at the former's basement flat one rainy night accompanied by an enigmatic, beautiful, mostly silent, girlfriend.
Hotel Torpe
As a Man Grows Older
Kain
Brothers Kain and Rattler Sutherland live on a Northern Territory station. The unstable Kain clashes with the more laid-back Rattler over several issues - money, treatment of local Blacks, cattle, but most of all, their Aboriginal housemaid, Kaita, whom Kain is convinced Rattler has impregnated.
The Loser
The Winner
The Fantasist
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
The Blood Knot
Henry IV
In twentieth-century Italy, a man insists that he is Enrico Quattro, an Italian monarch from centuries before. Obviously, he's a madman - isn't he?
Firebrand
The Plough and the Stars
A husband clashes with his wife over his membership to the Irish citizen army.