Compact S3E55

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Compact

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1. Weekend Guest

2. A Place Of Your Own

3. A Question Of Morals

4. The Enquiry

5. The Opening

6. Hand In Marriage

7. The Best Policy

8. One Of Us Must Go

9. Love You And Leave You

10. Battle Of The Sexes

11. Unexpected Guests

12. Mutual Understanding

13. Surprises

14. Walls Have Ears

15. In The Air

16. The Poison Spreads

17. The Fatal Call

18. An End And A Beginning

19. The Night Visitors

20. Plots And Plans

21. Secrets And Lies

22. The Ides Of March

23. False Evidence

24. A Difficult Assignment

25. The Eve Of The Wedding

26. Just Married - Good Luck

27. Honeymoon And Holidays

28. Rush Job

29. Moment Of Truth

30. Hot And Cold

31. Home And Away

32. Ian In Danger

33. Investigations

34. Guilty Conscience

35. To Be Delivered By Hand

36. Business Not Blackmail

37. A Ray Of Hope

38. Success Story

39. Wine, Women, And Song

40. Delicate Negotiations

41. Parties And Quarrels

42. Who Is Eddie Pritchard?

43. Crossed Swords

44. A Question Of Loyalties

45. To Catch A Thief

46. Play On Crime

47. The Unexpected

48. Encounter

49. The Verdict Was Guilty

50. Emergency Call

51. The Kiss Of Life

52. Have You Anything To Say?

53. Hide And Seek

54. Find The Lady

55. Responsibilities

56. Time Of Trial

57. A Boy Comes Home

58. Old Friends And Familiar Faces

59. The Offer

60. The Dilemma

61. The Bowler Hat Trick

62. A Game Of Consequences

63. Model Mystery

64. Unexpected Temperament

65. Paradise - My Island Home

66. Departures

67. Backfire

68. Business With Pleasure

69. Treasure Hunt

70. Many Questions

71. Blow The Wind - Westerly

72. Dear Mister Bruce

73. Unconditional Surrender

74. Best Laid Plans

75. Credit Where Credit's Due

76. The Warning

77. Departure And Return

78. Friends And Relations

79. Goodbye Forever

80. The Shadow Of Danger

81. Between Life And Death

82. A Spy In The Camp

83. Smugglers Gold

84. Kooky Christening

85. Moving On

86. To The Rescue

87. Over The Wall

88. Mistaken Identity

89. Home And Dry

90. Maiden Voyage

91. Tangled Web

92. Secrets All Round

93. Lost Property

94. The Truth Will Out

95. Weekend Plans

96. Accident - Presumed Drowned

97. On, Comet! On, Cupid! On, Donner And Blitzen!

98. Seven More Shopping Days

99. Change Partners

100. Do Me A Favour!

101. A Surprise For Christmas

102. A Partridge In A Pear Tree

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Compact

Drama

Soap

Compact was a British television soap opera shown by the BBC between 1962 and 1965. The series was created by Hazel Adair and Peter Ling, who together went on to devise Crossroads. In contrast to the kitchen sink realism of Coronation Street, Compact was a distinctly middle-class serial, set in the more "sophisticated" arena of magazine publishing. An early "avarice" soap, it took the viewer into the business workplace, and aligned the professional lives of the characters with more personal storylines. The show was scheduled for broadcast on Tuesdays and Thursdays, thus avoiding a clash with ITV's Coronation Street on Mondays and Wednesdays. When Compact began, the editor was a woman, Joanne Minster, yet it was not long before she was replaced by Ian Harmon, the son of the magazine's owner. Despite being largely criticised by reviewers, Compact was popular with the general public, and in 1964 a regular omnibus edition was introduced, broadcast on Sundays. Morris Barry, a some-time actor and BBC director – he directed several Doctor Who stories in the 1960s – took over as producer and was given a brief to spice the series up in view of the criticism it had received from the national press. But the BBC, never comfortable with the concept of soap opera, quietly dropped the series in 1965.

Date: 01/02/1962

Rating: 3.0

Cast: Vincent Ball, Robert Desmond, Rachel Gurney, Clinton Greyn, Carmen Silvera, Mandy Miller, Patrick Troughton, Lionel Murton, Eric Barker, Robert Flemyng, David Langton, Sandra Payne, Shane Rimmer, Moray Watson, Julia Lockwood, Donald Hewlett, Bill Kerr, Tony Wright, Bernard Kay, Beryl Cooke, Dilys Watling, Elizabeth Wallace

Vincent Ball