# List of The Main Chance episodes

This is a list of episodes for the ITV television series The Main Chance.

## Episodes
### First Series

| Episode # | Original Air Date (UK) | Episode Title | Writer | Director | Guest cast |
| 1-01 | 18 June 1969 | What About Justice? | Edmund Ward | John Frankau | George Innes, Peter Halliday, Arthur Hewlett, Michael Elwyn, Martin Boddey |
| 1-02 | 25 June 1969 | Body and Soul | Edmund Ward | Christopher Hodson | Tony Caunter, Walter Gotell, Murray Evans, Ballard Berkeley, John Normington, John Law |
| 1-03 | 2 July 1969 | The Professional | Edmund Ward | John Frankau | Jack Woolgar, Anthony Bate, Michael Gover, Walter Sparrow |
| 1-04 | 9 July 1969 | Liar's Dice | Edmund Ward | Christopher Hodson | Aubrey Morris, Geoffrey Chater, Simon Oates, Aimée Delamain |
| 1-05 | 16 July 1969 | The Privilege of Justice | Edmund Ward | Christopher Hodson | John Bennett, Alan Browning, David Grey |
| 1-06 | 23 July 1969 | With All My Worldly Goods... | Edmund Ward | John Frankau | Elizabeth Shepherd, Jack May, Hamilton Dyce, Neil Wilson, Norman Mitchell, William Wilde |

### Second Series

| Episode # | Original Air Date (UK) | Episode Title | Writer | Director | Guest cast |
| 2-01 | 14 September 1970 | A Time to Love, A Time to Die | Edmund Ward | Christopher Hodson | Bernard Kay, Patrick Barr, David Lodge, Richard Hurndall |
| 2-02 | 21 September 1970 | It Could Happen to You | Edmund Ward | Marc Miller | Diana Coupland, Bernard Kay |
| 2-03 | 28 September 1970 | First, You Eat - Later We Ruin You | David Weir | John Frankau | Bernard Hepton, Peter Jeffrey, Vladek Sheybal |
| 2-04 | 5 October 1970 | A Little Black and White Lie | David Weir | John Frankau | Clifton Jones, Douglas Wilmer, Valerie Murray, Jack May |
| 2-05 | 12 October 1970 | The Walls of Jericho | Louis Marks | Christopher Hodson | Freddie Jones, Peter Cellier, Cynthia Grenville |
| 2-06 | 19 October 1970 | A View from the Chair | Edmund Ward | Marc Miller | Ronald Radd, Pat Heywood, Hilary Mason, John Harvey, Noel Dyson |
| 2-07 | 26 October 1970 | The Best Legal System in the World | John Malcolm | John Frankau | Peter Bowles, Glynn Edwards, Georgina Hale, Robert Cawdron |
| 2-08 | 2 November 1970 | The Piper Calls the Tune | Louis Marks | Christopher Hodson | John Collin, Frank Mills, Brian McDermott, James Bree, Edward Evans |
| 2-09 | 9 November 1970 | A Man I Know to Be Innocent… | John Malcolm | Christopher Hodson | Robin Ellis, John Turner |
| 2-10 | 16 November 1970 | A Vision of the Future | Edmund Ward | Christopher Hodson | Peter Gilmore, Jack Watson, Preston Lockwood, Michael Collins, Hugh Morton |
| 2-11 | 23 November 1970 | The Lady Who Went Too Far | David Weir | John Frankau | Joan Greenwood, Nicholas Pennell, Felix Aylmer, David Blake Kelly |
| 2-12 | 30 November 1970 | Settlement Day | John Malcolm | Christopher Hodson | Hildegarde Neil, Walter Gotell, James Copeland, Faith Brook |
| 2-13 | 7 December 1970 | Private Armies | Edmund Ward | John Frankau | David Lodge, Nicholas Courtney, Percy Herbert, Geoffrey Frederick, Norman Claridge |

### Third Series

| Episode # | Original Air Date (UK) | Episode Title | Writer | Director | Guest cast |
| 3-01 | 7 June 1972 | The Killing Ground | Edmund Ward | John Frankau | Robin Askwith, Jack Woolgar, Jack Watson, Guy Slater, David Purcell, Roy Purcell, Morris Perry |
| 3-02 | 14 June 1972 | Love’s Old Sweet Song | Edmund Ward | John Frankau | George Baker, John Standing, Robert Keegan |
| 3-03 | 21 June 1972 | Acting for Self | Ray Jenkins | Marc Miller | Bob Hoskins, Patrick Troughton, Tom Watson, Brian Hawksley, David Savile |
| 3-04 | 28 June 1972 | Not in Today’s Army | John Batt | Marc Miller | James Hazeldine, Malcolm Tierney, Lyndon Brook |
| 3-05 | 5 July 1972 | Widow’s Mite | John Batt | John Frankau | Jacqui Chan, Peter Cellier, Gary Bond, Heather Sears, Keith Marsh |
| 3-06 | 12 July 1972 | The Next Great Train Robbery | Ray Jenkins | Marc Miller | Anthony Bate, Clifford Rose, Malcolm Terris, David Garfield |
| 3-07 | 19 July 1972 | Where Did I Leave My Shining Armour? | Edmund Ward | Marc Miller | Stuart Wilson, Barbara Young, Peter Arne, Richard Easton, Richard Burrell, Hugh Moxey |
| 3-08 | 26 July 1972 | Copper-Bottomed Cert | David Lees | Marc Miller | Emrys James, Gilbert Wynne, Richard Mathews |
| 3-09 | 2 August 1972 | Doll on a Wall | Ray Jenkins | John Frankau | Frederick Treves, Scott Anthony, Candace Glendenning |
| 3-10 | 9 August 1972 | Choice of Jungles | Edmund Ward | Marc Miller | Windsor Davies, Stuart Wilson, Gerald Flood, Derek Smith, Laurence Payne |
| 3-11 | 16 August 1972 | Fit- Up | Ray Jenkins | John Frankau | Tessa Wyatt, John Horsley, Scott Forbes |
| 3-12 | 23 August 1972 | One for the House | John Batt | John Frankau | Alister Williamson, John Bown, Peter Birrel, Shirley Dixon |
| 3-13 | 30 August 1972 | Dear Sir, Unless… | Edmund Ward | John Frankau | Allan Cuthbertson, Noel Willman |

### Fourth Series

| Episode # | Original Air Date (UK) | Episode Title | Writer | Director | Guest cast |
| 4-01 | 18 April 1975 | Process | Edmund Ward | Derek Bennett | Michael Sheard, Denis Lill, Antony Carrick, Frederick Treves, Charles Morgan, Nigel Lambert, Peter Birrel, Edward Underdown |
| 4-02 | 25 April 1975 | World of Silence | Edmund Ward | Derek Bennett | Ronald Radd, Denis Lill, Frederick Treves, Richard Hampton, Andrew Lane |
| 4-03 | 2 May 1975 | Rule of Law | John Batt | Gareth Davies | Leslie Schofield, Carleton Hobbs, Peter Jeffrey, Edward Judd, John Harvey |
| 4-04 | 9 May 1975 | Payment by Result | Edmund Ward | Derek Bennett | Ingrid Hafner, Stuart Damon, Philip Bond, Ian Thompson |
| 4-05 | 16 May 1975 | Survival | John Batt | Cyril Coke | George Sewell, Geoffrey Chater, David Daker, John Stratton, William Fox |
| 4-06 | 23 May 1975 | No Names | Ray Jenkins | Tony Wharmby | Donald Douglas, Brian Hawksley, Eric Mason, Martin Flynn |
| 4-07 | 30 May 1975 | It Couldn’t Happen Here | Edmund Ward | Tony Wharmby | Stuart Wilson, Ray Smith, Frederick Jaeger, Derek Francis, Frank Wylie |
| 4-08 | 6 June 1975 | Killing | Ray Jenkins | Cyril Coke | John Savident, Stuart Damon |
| 4-09 | 20 June 1975 | By the Book | Edmund Ward | Cyril Coke | Tony Melody, Denis Lill, David Savile, James Mellor |
| 4-10 | 27 June 1975 | When There’s No Law | John Batt | Michael Ferguson | Frederick Jaeger, Nigel Stock, Michael Robbins, Brian Hall |
| 4-11 | 4 July 1975 | Year of the Tiger | Ray Jenkins | Michael Ferguson | Phyllida Law, Peter Gilmore, Denis Lill, Frederick Jaeger, Arnold Diamond |
| 4-12 | 11 July 1975 | We’re the Bosses Now | John Batt | Derek Bennett | Kathleen Byron, Michael Culver, Bernard Kay, Peter Miles, William Russell |
| 4-13 | 18 July 1975 | Coroner’s Verdict | Edmund Ward | Bob Hird | John Nettleton, Derek Farr, Maurice O’Connell, Michael Turner, Rod Beacham, Michael Hawkins |