Weekend Guest

A Place Of Your Own

A Question Of Morals

The Enquiry

The Opening

Hand In Marriage

The Best Policy

One Of Us Must Go

Love You And Leave You

Battle Of The Sexes

Unexpected Guests

Mutual Understanding

Surprises

Walls Have Ears

In The Air

The Poison Spreads

The Fatal Call

An End And A Beginning

The Night Visitors

Plots And Plans

Secrets And Lies

The Ides Of March

False Evidence

A Difficult Assignment

The Eve Of The Wedding

Just Married - Good Luck

Honeymoon And Holidays

Rush Job

Moment Of Truth

Hot And Cold

Home And Away

Ian In Danger

Investigations

Guilty Conscience

To Be Delivered By Hand

Business Not Blackmail

A Ray Of Hope

Success Story

Wine, Women, And Song

Delicate Negotiations

Parties And Quarrels

Who Is Eddie Pritchard?

Crossed Swords

A Question Of Loyalties

To Catch A Thief

Play On Crime

The Unexpected

Encounter

The Verdict Was Guilty

Emergency Call

The Kiss Of Life

Have You Anything To Say?

Hide And Seek

Find The Lady

Responsibilities

Time Of Trial

A Boy Comes Home

Old Friends And Familiar Faces

The Offer

The Dilemma

The Bowler Hat Trick

A Game Of Consequences

Model Mystery

Unexpected Temperament

Paradise - My Island Home

Departures

Backfire

Business With Pleasure

Treasure Hunt

Many Questions

Blow The Wind - Westerly

Dear Mister Bruce

Unconditional Surrender

Best Laid Plans

Credit Where Credit's Due

The Warning

Departure And Return

Friends And Relations

Goodbye Forever

The Shadow Of Danger

Between Life And Death

A Spy In The Camp

Smugglers Gold

Kooky Christening

Moving On

To The Rescue

Over The Wall

Mistaken Identity

Home And Dry

Maiden Voyage

Tangled Web

Secrets All Round

Lost Property

The Truth Will Out

Weekend Plans

Accident - Presumed Drowned

On, Comet! On, Cupid! On, Donner And Blitzen!

Seven More Shopping Days

Change Partners

Do Me A Favour!

Season 3

Journey's End

Drama

Soap

Compact

BBC One

Season 1

Season 2

Season 4

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.