Compact S4E8

Home /

Show

Compact

Episodes

1. Ring In The New

2. Day Of Deliverance

3. Fare Thee Well, For I Must Leave Thee

4. Discoveries Of The Day

5. Togetherness

6. Troublemaker

7. The Last Straw

8. Heart To Heart

9. Late Call

10. A Marriage Has Been Arranged…

11. Many A Slip

12. Thunder On The Left

13. Tell It Not In Faith

14. A Family Affair

15. Change Of Plan

16. Kidnapped

17. It Happens To Other People

18. Where There's Smoke

19. Patience On A Monument

20. Blow Hot, Blow Cold

21. Change Of Heart

22. Food For Thought

23. The End Of A Song

24. The Man From Paris

25. The Wrong Set

26. The Egnet Sings

27. A Cigarette That Bears A Lipstick's Trace

28. The Last Act

29. A Tangled Web

30. Who's Who?

31. Never Trust A Woman

32. Travellers Return

33. Gone Away

34. Publish And Be Damned

35. Action For Libel

36. Testing Time

37. Plots, Plans, And A Party

38. True Or False?

39. Hide And Seek

40. Wild Goose Chase

41. High Court, Low Court

42. Best Laid Schemes

43. Trouble Brewing

44. Any Other Business?

45. Time Flies

46. Friends And Enemies

47. Day Of Decision

48. Hidden Depths

49. Appearances Can Be Deceptive

50. The Truth Will Out

51. The Off-White Elephant

52. Winners And Losers

53. Engagements At Sea

54. Storm Warning

55. Change Of Plans

56. Trouble Across The Water

57. Destination - Paris

58. Paris Is For Lovers

59. If The Shoe Fits…

60. Journey's End

Sources

We recommend using an adblocker, some of the sources may include their own ads.

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