.....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.