16 episodes · 26th September 1967
This anthology drama series from Associated-Rediffusion presented stories of people who take a gamble – sometimes with their lives – in order to prove a point or better their position.
A Jew gambles his whole upbringing on marrying a gentile to prove love is all you need.
Stars Ralph Michael as ageing General Cudlipp, who lived in a home for retired officers and Ronnie Barker as Llewellyn Smiley, the commissionaire at the local cinema who Cudlipp gambles can pass for a retired officer.
A miner gambles that him staying down a mine on his own, will bring in the press and bring attention to the amount of pits closing down around the country.
A bridge offers a gamble during the 1944 Normandy Landings.
Stars John Binden as Patsy Fagan, a man imprisoned for thirty years who plots his escape with his brother, John (Robert Russell).
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