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- Season 4 Ring In The New
- Season 4 Day Of Deliverance
- Season 4 Fare Thee Well, For I Must Leave Thee
- Season 4 Discoveries Of The Day
- Season 4 Togetherness
- Season 4 Troublemaker
- Season 4 The Last Straw
- Season 4 Heart To Heart
- Season 4 Late Call
- Season 4 A Marriage Has Been Arranged…
- Season 4 Many A Slip
- Season 4 Thunder On The Left
- Season 4 Tell It Not In Faith
- Season 4 A Family Affair
- Season 4 Change Of Plan
- Season 4 Kidnapped
- Season 4 It Happens To Other People
- Season 4 Where There's Smoke
- Season 4 Patience On A Monument
- Season 4 Blow Hot, Blow Cold
- Season 4 Change Of Heart
- Season 4 Food For Thought
- Season 4 The End Of A Song
- Season 4 The Man From Paris
- Season 4 The Wrong Set
- Season 4 The Egnet Sings
- Season 4 A Cigarette That Bears A Lipstick's Trace
- Season 4 The Last Act
- Season 4 A Tangled Web
- Season 4 Who's Who?
- Season 4 Never Trust A Woman
- Season 4 Travellers Return
- Season 4 Gone Away
- Season 4 Publish And Be Damned
- Season 4 Action For Libel
- Season 4 Testing Time
- Season 4 Plots, Plans, And A Party
- Season 4 True Or False?
- Season 4 Hide And Seek
- Season 4 Wild Goose Chase
- Season 4 High Court, Low Court
- Season 4 Best Laid Schemes
- Season 4 Trouble Brewing
- Season 4 Any Other Business?
- Season 4 Time Flies
- Season 4 Friends And Enemies
- Season 4 Day Of Decision
- Season 4 Hidden Depths
- Season 4 Appearances Can Be Deceptive
- Season 4 The Truth Will Out
- Season 4 The Off-White Elephant
- Season 4 Winners And Losers
- Season 4 Engagements At Sea
- Season 4 Storm Warning
- Season 4 Change Of Plans
- Season 4 Trouble Across The Water
- Season 4 Destination - Paris
- Season 4 Paris Is For Lovers
- Season 4 If The Shoe Fits…
- Season 4 Journey's End
Compact
3.00 30 minutes 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.
