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- Season 3 Weekend Guest
- Season 3 A Place Of Your Own
- Season 3 A Question Of Morals
- Season 3 The Enquiry
- Season 3 The Opening
- Season 3 Hand In Marriage
- Season 3 The Best Policy
- Season 3 One Of Us Must Go
- Season 3 Love You And Leave You
- Season 3 Battle Of The Sexes
- Season 3 Unexpected Guests
- Season 3 Mutual Understanding
- Season 3 Surprises
- Season 3 Walls Have Ears
- Season 3 In The Air
- Season 3 The Poison Spreads
- Season 3 The Fatal Call
- Season 3 An End And A Beginning
- Season 3 The Night Visitors
- Season 3 Plots And Plans
- Season 3 Secrets And Lies
- Season 3 The Ides Of March
- Season 3 False Evidence
- Season 3 A Difficult Assignment
- Season 3 The Eve Of The Wedding
- Season 3 Just Married - Good Luck
- Season 3 Honeymoon And Holidays
- Season 3 Rush Job
- Season 3 Moment Of Truth
- Season 3 Hot And Cold
- Season 3 Home And Away
- Season 3 Ian In Danger
- Season 3 Investigations
- Season 3 Guilty Conscience
- Season 3 To Be Delivered By Hand
- Season 3 Business Not Blackmail
- Season 3 A Ray Of Hope
- Season 3 Success Story
- Season 3 Wine, Women, And Song
- Season 3 Delicate Negotiations
- Season 3 Parties And Quarrels
- Season 3 Who Is Eddie Pritchard?
- Season 3 Crossed Swords
- Season 3 A Question Of Loyalties
- Season 3 To Catch A Thief
- Season 3 Play On Crime
- Season 3 The Unexpected
- Season 3 Encounter
- Season 3 The Verdict Was Guilty
- Season 3 Emergency Call
- Season 3 The Kiss Of Life
- Season 3 Have You Anything To Say?
- Season 3 Hide And Seek
- Season 3 Find The Lady
- Season 3 Responsibilities
- Season 3 Time Of Trial
- Season 3 A Boy Comes Home
- Season 3 Old Friends And Familiar Faces
- Season 3 The Offer
- Season 3 The Dilemma
- Season 3 The Bowler Hat Trick
- Season 3 A Game Of Consequences
- Season 3 Model Mystery
- Season 3 Unexpected Temperament
- Season 3 Paradise - My Island Home
- Season 3 Departures
- Season 3 Backfire
- Season 3 Business With Pleasure
- Season 3 Treasure Hunt
- Season 3 Many Questions
- Season 3 Blow The Wind - Westerly
- Season 3 Dear Mister Bruce
- Season 3 Unconditional Surrender
- Season 3 Best Laid Plans
- Season 3 Credit Where Credit's Due
- Season 3 The Warning
- Season 3 Departure And Return
- Season 3 Friends And Relations
- Season 3 Goodbye Forever
- Season 3 The Shadow Of Danger
- Season 3 Between Life And Death
- Season 3 A Spy In The Camp
- Season 3 Smugglers Gold
- Season 3 Kooky Christening
- Season 3 Moving On
- Season 3 To The Rescue
- Season 3 Over The Wall
- Season 3 Mistaken Identity
- Season 3 Home And Dry
- Season 3 Maiden Voyage
- Season 3 Tangled Web
- Season 3 Secrets All Round
- Season 3 Lost Property
- Season 3 The Truth Will Out
- Season 3 Weekend Plans
- Season 3 Accident - Presumed Drowned
- Season 3 On, Comet! On, Cupid! On, Donner And Blitzen!
- Season 3 Seven More Shopping Days
- Season 3 Change Partners
- Season 3 Do Me A Favour!
- Season 3 A Surprise For Christmas
- Season 3 A Partridge In A Pear Tree
Compact - Season 3
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.
