Ring In The New

Day Of Deliverance

Fare Thee Well, For I Must Leave Thee

Discoveries Of The Day

Togetherness

Troublemaker

The Last Straw

Heart To Heart

Late Call

A Marriage Has Been Arranged…

Many A Slip

Thunder On The Left

Tell It Not In Faith

A Family Affair

Change Of Plan

Kidnapped

It Happens To Other People

Where There's Smoke

Patience On A Monument

Blow Hot, Blow Cold

Change Of Heart

Food For Thought

The End Of A Song

The Man From Paris

The Wrong Set

The Egnet Sings

A Cigarette That Bears A Lipstick's Trace

The Last Act

A Tangled Web

Who's Who?

Never Trust A Woman

Travellers Return

Gone Away

Publish And Be Damned

Action For Libel

Testing Time

Plots, Plans, And A Party

True Or False?

Hide And Seek

Wild Goose Chase

High Court, Low Court

Best Laid Schemes

Trouble Brewing

Any Other Business?

Time Flies

Friends And Enemies

Day Of Decision

Hidden Depths

Appearances Can Be Deceptive

The Truth Will Out

The Off-White Elephant

Winners And Losers

Engagements At Sea

Storm Warning

Change Of Plans

Trouble Across The Water

Destination - Paris

Paris Is For Lovers

If The Shoe Fits…

Journey's End

Season 4

Drama

Soap

Compact

BBC One

Season 1

Season 2

Season 3

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.