Talking to a Stranger

Talking to a Stranger is a British television drama, produced by the BBC and made up of four separate plays telling the story of one weekend from the viewpoints of four different members of the same family. Originally transmitted on BBC2 as part of the Theatre 625 anthology strand, the four instalments were shown weekly from 2 October to 23 October 1966. The first three plays ran 96 minutes and the final play 102 minutes. The Observer TV critic George Melly called it "the first authentic masterpiece written directly for television" and claimed that "on the evidence of this work alone, the medium can be considered to have come of age." The four episodes were individually subtitled Anytime You're Ready I'll Sparkle, No Skill or Special...