.....But if it makes you feel any better, I read the following telecasts survive (Part 2)
I read that the following 1960s-era BBC TV one-offs still exist. I'm sure there are others, though.
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- DirectorDon TaylorStarsSusan BrownMona BruceDenis Cleary
- DirectorBrandon Acton-BondStarsRichard PearsonPatsy RowlandsDandy NicholsJune is bringing her beau, Sidney, home to meet her family. Three generations of the family live in the basement flat in Parsons Green, surrounded by the stuffed remains of the family pets. But the pets aren't the only things that get stuffed...
- StarsEric ShillingJulia ShelleyStephen MantonThe object of the professor's affections has more time for a green alien.
- DirectorGeorge R. FoaStarsSybil ThorndikeSean ConneryOlive McFarlandMaurya, who lives in a village on the coast of Ireland, has lost her husband, father-in-law, and five sons to the sea. With a sense of foreboding, she predicts that by nightfall she will have no living sons remaining.
- DirectorRosemary HillStarsDennis HandbyRoger KempDennis EdwardsClass distinctions, inferiority complexes, and social climbing abound as the bride, groom, and their families gather for a wedding banquet. There's a rumor that a general will be in attendance, secured by a real estate agent at one family's expense. After an argument about electricity, which exposes both the ignorance and the combativeness of the bride, the general does arrive, ear trumpet in hand. He commands the attention of all. But will tranquility last until the group photo?
- DirectorRudolph CartierStarsYôko TaniLee MontagueRobert HardyIn the depths of a forest, a man is killed and his wife seemingly raped. When a notorious bandit is brought to trial, the case could hardly seem simpler. But what really happened?
- DirectorNaomi CaponStarsFrançoise RosaySonia DresdelColin Jeavons
- DirectorRudolph CartierStarsClaire BloomSean ConneryJack WatlingIn the Russia of the 1880s, Anna Karenina sacrifices her marriage when she has a passionate affair with an army officer.
- DirectorEric TaylerStarsRuth DunningBruce ProchnikMaureen Pryor
- DirectorDon TaylorStarsLeslie SandsNigel StockBarry FosterWilf's wife Alice is dying. He has sent for his two sons. Edgar, a successful scientist, has brought his wife. Richard, a disillusioned artist who has stumbled into teaching and who is in the throes of a divorce, has brought his heavily-pregnant fiancee. All started life as working-class and socialists. It emerges that Wilf and Alice made enormous sacrifices to put their two sons through grammar school to make them more upwardly-mobile, and indeed they are. Each has gone his own way. But do they understand or even know one another any more?
- DirectorNaomi CaponStarsWendy CraigPatrick AllenPeter McEneryCandida is the sensible wife of a clergyman. Her husband tends to take her for granted, but she has a young admirer who doesn't.
- DirectorAlvin RakoffStarsKenneth MoreRalph RichardsonAngela BaddeleyA television interviewer is determined to get a coup on a dodgy cabinet minister.
- DirectorStuart BurgeStarsJeremy BrettRobert HelpmannBeatrix LehmannA young student makes the acquaintance of the mysterious man who helps him to find his way into the apartment of betrayal and sickness.
- DirectorMichael ElliottStarsPeggy AshcroftJohn GielgudDorothy TutinMadame Lyubov Andreyevna Ranevsky (Peggy Ashcroft) is a spoiled aging aristocratic lady, who returns from a trip to Paris to face the loss of her magnificent Cherry Orchard estate after a default on the mortgage. In denial, she continues living in the past, deluding herself and her family, while the beautiful cherry trees are being axed down by the re-possessor Yermolai Alexeyevich Lopahin (George Murcell), her former serf, who has his own agenda.
- DirectorDon TaylorStarsRobert ShawRosalie CrutchleyPatrick MacneeKing Leontes of Bohemia suspects his wife, Hermione, and his friend, Polixenes, of betraying him. When he forces Polixenes to flee for his life, Leontes sets in motion a chain of events that lead to death, a ferocious bear, an infant left in the snow, young love, and a statue coming to life.
- DirectorHarry CarlisleStarsMichael FlandersDonald Swann
- StarsPauline LettsJohn StrattonGeoffrey BayldonDealing with conscience under the threat of a possible nuclear war.
- StarsAlfred LynchJune BarryAngela DouglasA young man dreams of improving his lot in life, and meets a girl who might help him achieve his ambitions. But will he abandon the life he knows for the love of her?
- StarsRobert ShawDaphne SlaterDenis QuilleyParents struggle over the future of their child, resulting in the mother, using her cunning manipulative skills, subduing and finally destroying the father.
- DirectorAlex SegalStarsIngrid BergmanMichael RedgraveRalph RichardsonA scheming woman marries a nice but dimwitted intellectual out of convenience. She hears that her old lover is back in town. She decides to destroy his life, jealous of his love affair with another.
- DirectorMichael ElliottRonald EyreStarsVanessa RedgravePatrick AllenMax AdrianAfter the overthrowing of Duke Senior by his tyrannical brother, Senior's daughter Rosalind disguises herself as a man and sets out to find her banished father while also counseling her clumsy suitor Orlando in the art of wooing.
- StarsNat 'King' ColeTed HeathCliff AdamsA 47 minute TV special where he performs many hits in his inimitable, charming manner with great accompaniment. The last ten minutes feature dated, Mitch Miller style backing vocals but even this can't obscure the great musician/entertainer he was. A very high quality video is easily found on you tube. He is truly beautiful, wearing a wonderful blue suit and a smile that might slay you. Recommended!
- DirectorMichael CroftJohn VernonStarsJeremy AnthonyMary GrimesHywel BennettThe growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony.
- DirectorPhilip SavilleStarsChristopher PlummerRobert ShawAlec ClunesHamlet suspects his uncle has murdered his father to claim the throne of Denmark and the hand of Hamlet's mother, but the Prince cannot decide whether or not he should take vengeance.
- DirectorDavid AskeyStarsPatricia MorisonHoward KeelMillicent MartinThe real-life marriage of theater stars Lily and Fred resembles that of Petruchio and Katharina in "The Taming Of The Shrew", in which they are performing.
- StarsIvor CutlerDougie GrayTony GrayThe crazy launch to BBC2 starring The Alberts alongside linkman Ivor Cutler
- DirectorPeter WatkinsStarsTony CosgroveOlivier Espitalier-NoelDon FairserviceThe 1746 Battle of Culloden, the last land battle fought in the British Isles and the battle that ensured that Scotland was controlled by England.
- DirectorMichael CroftRoger JenkinsStarsJohn NightingaleTim MeatsTimothy BlockA banished hero of Rome allies with a sworn enemy to take his revenge on the city.
- DirectorRoger JenkinsVal MayStarsBonnie HurrenMichael JaystonRowena CooperA scholarly king and his three companions swear off the society of women for three years, only to have a diplomatic visit from a French princess and her three ladies-in-waiting thwart their intentions.
- StarsAllan Sherman
- DirectorMichael SimpsonStarsJoss AcklandGraham ArmitageKenneth ColleySchweik is regarded by most people as a bad soldier and a bit of a buffoon. But he has the ability to stay alive in a war.
- DirectorMichael SimpsonStarsAndrew KeirRuth MeyersAnthony BateMacbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.
- DirectorKen RussellStarsVivian PicklesPeter BowlesAlexei JawdokimovThe outrageous life of the American dancer of the 1920s, Isadora Duncan, whom Ken Russell described as "part genius and part charlatan".
- DirectorJonathan MillerStarsAnne-Marie MallikFreda DowieJo Maxwell MullerA girl named Alice falls down a rabbit-hole and wanders into the strange Wonderland.
- DirectorAlan CookeStarsAlan AdamsChloe AshcroftDavid BelcherYoung lovers Hero (Caroline John) and Claudio (Michael Byrne), soon to wed, conspire to get verbal sparring partners and confirmed singles Benedick (Robert Stephens) and Beatrice (Dame Maggie Smith) to wed as well.
- DirectorBrian HulmeStarsJohn BreslinRowena CooperGilbert WynneA story about two people who meet on a train, She (Cooper) is on the way to visit her husband in prison, He (Breslin) to identify his wife's body.
- DirectorJohn GorrieStarsMary CostaJeremy BrettJoyce BlackhamOperetta concerning a rich widow, and her countrymen's attempt to keep her money in the principality by finding her the right husband.
- DirectorTerry HughesStarsHarry SecombeRoy CastleHattie JacquesSet in England in 1828, the story centres on wealthy Samuel Pickwick and his valet Sam Weller, who are in a debtors' prison where they recall the misadventures that led to their imprisonment. On the previous Christmas Eve, Pickwick introduced his friend Wardle, Wardle's daughters, Emily and Isabella, and their Aunt Rachael to Nathaniel Winkle, Augustus Snodgrass, and Tracy Tupman, three members of the Pickwick Club. They were soon joined by Alfred Jingle, who tricked Tupman into paying for his ticket to a ball that evening. Upon learning Rachael is an heiress, Jingle set out to win her hand and eventually succeeded. Pickwick engages Sam Weller as his valet and, through a series of misunderstandings, he inadvertently leads his landlady, Mrs. Bardell, to believe he has proposed marriage to her. Pickwick is charged with breach of promise and hauled into court, where he is found guilty as charged and sentenced to prison when he stubbornly refuses to pay her compensation.
- DirectorJonathan AlwynStarsJohn AbineriBernard ArchardPaul BaconWorried that the presence of the imprisoned Earl of Warwick will threaten his dynasty, Henry has him entrapped into an act of treason to justify his execution.