A costume drama / satire about financial skull-duggery, and confidence tricksters in both the upper and lower classes in Victorian London. A working class man impersonates a lord who is supposedly very rich and a financial wizard. As such he is invited to all the best peoples' parties.
A British play about homelessness by Jeremy Sandford, writer of "Cathy Come Home", first broadcast as a BBC Play For Today. It details the deterioration of Edna, a homeless alcoholic and was made at a time when vagrancy was still a criminal offence.
The TARDIS arrives on the unnamed planet of the Gonds, who are ruled and taught in a form of self-perpetuating slavery by the alien Krotons — crystalline beings whose ship, the Dynatrope, crash-landed there thousands of years earlier after being damaged in a space battle. The Krotons are in suspended animation, in a crystalline slurry form, awaiting a time when they can be reconstituted by absorption of mental energy. Periodically, the two most brilliant Gond students are received into the Dynatrope, nominally to become "companions of the Krotons", but in truth to have their mental energy drained, after which they are killed.
The TARDIS materialises not far from Paris in 1794 — one of the bloodiest years following the French Revolution of 1789. The travellers become involved with an escape chain rescuing prisoners from the guillotine and get caught up in the machinations of an English undercover spy, James Stirling — alias Lemaitre, governor of the Conciergerie prison.
항상 화난 얼굴로 사고만 치고 다니는 콜린 스미스(톰 커트니 분)는 남편을 병으로 잃자마자 바로 딴 남자와 살림을 차리는 어머니를 무척 미워한다. 그러던 어느 날, 빵집을 털다가 체포되어 소년원에 간 그는 교도소장(마이클 레드그레이브 분)의 눈에 띄어서 장거리 주자가 된다. 소년원의 위상을 높이기 위한 교도소장은 콜린이 '크로스 컨트리' 레이스에 참가해 우승할 수 있도록 지원을 아끼지 않는다. 한편 콜린은 매일 아침 달리기 연습을 하며 자신이 미워하던 어머니와 소년원에 들어오게 된 일 등을 생각하는데...
