TV series

Theatre 625

1964–1968 · 5 seasons

Slow, talky, stage-rooted plays that ask you to sit with difficult ideas and uncomfortable people.

Overview: 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.
How it feels: Melancholic, tense, earnest and dark. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Identity, family, morality, isolation
Content: Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.
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Tone: melancholicstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: identity
family
morality
isolation
power
Places: single country house
home
workplace
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: anthology
nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild