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Season 1


Season 1, Episode 1: The Long Distance Piano Player

Original Air Date—15 October 1970

Season 1, Episode 2: The Right Prospectus

Original Air Date—22 October 1970

Season 1, Episode 3: The Lie

Original Air Date—29 October 1970

Season 1, Episode 4: Angels Are So Few

Original Air Date—5 November 1970
For the BBC's WEDNESDAY PLAY series, Dennis Potter offered one of his "visitation dramas": Housewife Cynthia Nicholls is married to prudish Richard Nicholls. One day, her mundane household chores are interrupted by the arrival on her front step of scruffy, coarse Michael Biddle. He claims to be an angel, but on the face of it, he could simply be a deranged street person. She challenges the angel Michael by pointing out that he has no wings.

Season 1, Episode 5: The Write-Off

Original Air Date—30 January 1970

Season 1, Episode 6: I Can't See My Little Willie

Original Air Date—19 November 1970

Season 1, Episode 7: A Distant Thunder

Original Air Date—26 November 1970

Season 1, Episode 8: Hearts and Flowers

Original Air Date—3 December 1970

Season 1, Episode 9: Robin Redbreast

Original Air Date—10 December 1970
After the break-up of a long-term relationship, urban sophisticate Norah seeks refuge in a remote house in the country. The locals are friendly, if eccentric, and she toys with the idea of a flirtation with dishy young gamekeeper Rob. But events at Harvest Festival leave her feeling manipulated, and six months later, with the consequences all too evident, she finds herself trapped in what is more like a nightmare. What role is she destined to play in the cycle of the seasons -- and of the generations?

Season 1, Episode 10: The Hallelujah Handshake

Original Air Date—17 December 1970

Season 1, Episode 11: Alma Mater

Original Air Date—7 January 1971

Season 1, Episode 12: Circle Line

Original Air Date—14 January 1971

Season 1, Episode 13: Hell's Angel

Original Air Date—21 January 1971

Season 1, Episode 14: The Piano

Original Air Date—28 January 1971

Season 1, Episode 15: Billy's Last Stand

Original Air Date—4 February 1971

Season 1, Episode 16: The Rainbirds

Original Air Date—11 February 1971

Season 1, Episode 17: Reddick

Original Air Date—18 February 1971

Season 1, Episode 18: The Foxtrot

Original Air Date—29 April 1971

Season 1, Episode 19: When the Bough Breaks

Original Air Date—6 May 1971

Season 1, Episode 20: Orkney

Original Air Date—13 May 1971

Season 1, Episode 21: The Rank and File

Original Air Date—20 May 1971

Season 1, Episode 22: The Man in the Sidecar

Original Air Date—27 May 1971

Season 1, Episode 23: Everybody Say Cheese

Original Air Date—3 June 1971

Season 2


Season 2, Episode 1: Traitor

Original Air Date—14 October 1971
Dishillusioned by his rich, aristocratic upbringing in Britain, top foreign office diplomat Adrian Harris became a spy for the Russians. He escaped to Moscow after being found out and it is there that, a few years later, a group of Western journalists come in search of his story. He disgusts them with his drunken ranting, but, unknown to them, he has good reason to conceal his true feelings.

Season 2, Episode 2: Edna, the Inebriate Woman

Original Air Date—21 October 1971

Season 2, Episode 3: Evelyn

Original Air Date—28 October 1971

Season 2, Episode 4: O Fat White Woman

Original Air Date—4 November 1971

Season 2, Episode 5: Thank You Very Much

Original Air Date—11 November 1971

Season 2, Episode 6: Michael Regan

Original Air Date—18 November 1971

Season 2, Episode 7: Skin Deep

Original Air Date—25 November 1971

Season 2, Episode 8: Pal

Original Air Date—2 December 1971

Season 2, Episode 9: The Pigeon Fancier

Original Air Date—9 December 1971

Season 2, Episode 10: Home

Original Air Date—6 January 1972

Season 2, Episode 11: Still Waters

Original Air Date—13 January 1972

Season 2, Episode 12: Stocker's Copper

Original Air Date—20 January 1972

Season 2, Episode 13: The House on Highbury Hill

Original Air Date—27 January 1972

Season 2, Episode 14: In the Beautiful Caribbean

Original Air Date—3 February 1972

Season 2, Episode 15: Ackerman, Dougall and Harker

Original Air Date—10 February 1972

Season 2, Episode 16: The Villa Maroc

Original Air Date—17 February 1972

Season 2, Episode 17: Cows

Original Air Date—24 February 1972

Season 2, Episode 18: The Fishing Party

Original Air Date—1 June 1972
Three miners plan a weekend fishing.

Season 3


Season 3, Episode 1: The Reporters

Original Air Date—9 October 1972

Season 3, Episode 2: A Life Is Forever

Original Air Date—16 October 1972

Season 3, Episode 3: Carson Country

Original Air Date—23 October 1972

Season 3, Episode 4: Man Friday

Original Air Date—30 October 1972

Season 3, Episode 5: Triple Exposure

Original Air Date—6 November 1972

Season 3, Episode 6: Better Than the Movies

Original Air Date—13 November 1972

Season 3, Episode 7: The General's Day

Original Air Date—20 November 1972

Season 3, Episode 8: The Bankrupt

Original Air Date—27 November 1972

Season 3, Episode 9: Just Your Luck

Original Air Date—4 December 1972

Season 3, Episode 10: The Bouncing Boy

Original Air Date—11 December 1972

Season 3, Episode 11: Shakespeare or Bust

Original Air Date—8 January 1973
Three miners take a boat trip to Stratford-on-Avon.

Season 3, Episode 12: Land of Green Ginger

Original Air Date—15 January 1973
Faced with the prospect of being sent to work abroad, Sally Brown returns home from London to Hull, to see if she still feels the same attachment for her home town - and for her old boyfriend Mike Thurlow. Will she decide to take the job abroad or return to live with Mike in Hull?

Season 3, Episode 13: Kisses at Fifty

Original Air Date—22 January 1973

Season 3, Episode 14: Highway Robbery

Original Air Date—29 January 1973

Season 3, Episode 15: Song at Twilight

Original Air Date—5 February 1973

Season 3, Episode 16: Only Make Believe

Original Air Date—12 February 1973
Playwright Christopher Hudson finds his medical problem hinders his writing. He employs secretary Sandra George and dictates his new play to her, but tensions soon develop between the two. As Hudson creates, scenes from his play are dramatized and interpolated. The play being created is Dennis Potter's Angels Are So Few, seen with a totally different cast from the 1970 BBC production.

Season 3, Episode 17: For Sylvia, or the Air Show

Original Air Date—19 February 1973

Season 3, Episode 18: The Operation

Original Air Date—26 February 1973

Season 3, Episode 19: Access to the Children

Original Air Date—5 March 1973

Season 3, Episode 20: Hard Labour

Original Air Date—12 March 1973
A quiet and put-upon house cleaner breaks her silence.

Season 3, Episode 21: Man Above Men

Original Air Date—19 March 1973

Season 3, Episode 22: Speech Day

Original Air Date—26 March 1973

Season 3, Episode 23: Steps Back

Original Air Date—14 May 1973

Season 3, Episode 24: Three's One

Original Air Date—4 June 1973

Season 3, Episode 25: Edward G: Like the Filmstar

Original Air Date—11 June 1973

Season 3, Episode 26: Blooming Youth

Original Air Date—18 June 1973

Season 3, Episode 27: The Stretch

Original Air Date—25 June 1973

Season 3, Episode 28: Making the Play

Original Air Date—2 July 1973

Season 4


Season 4, Episode 1: Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont

Original Air Date—18 October 1973

Season 4, Episode 2: Her Majesty's Pleasure

Original Air Date—25 October 1973

Season 4, Episode 3: Jack Point

Original Air Date—1 November 1973

Season 4, Episode 4: The Emergency Channel

Original Air Date—8 November 1973

Season 4, Episode 5: Mummy and Daddy

Original Air Date—15 November 1973

Season 4, Episode 6: Private Practice

Original Air Date—22 November 1973

Season 4, Episode 7: Shutdown

Original Air Date—29 November 1973

Season 4, Episode 8: Baby Blues

Original Air Date—6 December 1973

Season 4, Episode 9: Jingle Bells

Original Air Date—13 December 1973

Season 4, Episode 10: The Lonely Man's Lover

Original Air Date—17 January 1974

Season 4, Episode 11: All Good Men

Original Air Date—31 January 1974

Season 4, Episode 12: Joe's Ark

Original Air Date—14 February 1974
The religious beliefs of pet shop owner Joe (Freddie Jones) are shaken by the terminal illness of his daughter Lucy (Angharad Rees). For Potter, this play "makes more than a wry nod at possibilities which can comprehend pain, or disgust, or the implacable presence of death itself."

Season 4, Episode 13: Hot Fat

Original Air Date—21 February 1974

Season 4, Episode 14: Easy Go

Original Air Date—7 March 1974

Season 4, Episode 15: Headmaster

Original Air Date—14 March 1974

Season 4, Episode 16: Penda's Fen

Original Air Date—21 March 1974
Through a series of real and imagined encounters with angels, demons, and England's pagan past, a pastor's son begins to question his religion and politics, and comes to terms with his sexuality.

Season 4, Episode 17: Pidgeon: Hawk or Dove?

Original Air Date—28 March 1974

Season 4, Episode 18: Three for the Fancy

Original Air Date—11 April 1974

Season 4, Episode 19: The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil

Original Air Date—6 June 1974
Drama documentary adaptation of John McGrath's play staged by the 7:84 theatre company dealing with the exploitation of the Scottish people throughout history, from the brutal evictions of the Highland crofters by landowners to make way for the more economically viable Cheviot sheep in the 18th century, the development of stag hunts in Highland game parks in the 19th century and finally the exploitation of resources during the oil boom of the 1970's.

Season 4, Episode 20: Schmoedipus

Original Air Date—20 June 1974
Another Dennis Potter "visitation drama" focusing on a mother and son: When a stranger, Glen (Tim Curry), appears at the door of middle-aged Elizabeth Carter (Anna Cropper), he claims to be the illegitimate son she gave away at birth, and she accepts his story.

Season 4, Episode 21: The Childhood Friend

Original Air Date—27 June 1974

Season 4, Episode 22: A Follower for Emily

Original Air Date—4 July 1974

Season 5


Season 5, Episode 1: Leeds United

Original Air Date—31 October 1974
The true story of a strike by textile-factory workers in Leeds.

Season 5, Episode 2: Baby Love

Original Air Date—7 November 1974

Season 5, Episode 3: Back of Beyond

Original Air Date—14 November 1974

Season 5, Episode 4: The Bevellers

Original Air Date—21 November 1974

Season 5, Episode 5: Taking Leave

Original Air Date—28 November 1974

Season 5, Episode 6: Fugitive

Original Air Date—5 December 1974

Season 5, Episode 7: Eleanor

Original Air Date—12 December 1974

Season 5, Episode 8: Gangsters

Original Air Date—9 January 1975
Birmingham is a melting pot of races and every community has a stake in the city's underworld. When John Kline is released from prison after serving a sentence for murder, he becomes the unwilling catalyst in a gang war.

Season 5, Episode 9: The After Dinner Game

Original Air Date—16 January 1975

Season 5, Episode 10: Breath

Original Air Date—23 January 1975

Season 5, Episode 11: The Death of a Young, Young Man

Original Air Date—30 January 1975

Season 5, Episode 12: Sunset Across the Bay

Original Air Date—20 February 1975

Season 5, Episode 13: Funny Farm

Original Air Date—27 February 1975

Season 5, Episode 14: Goodbye

Original Air Date—6 March 1975

Season 5, Episode 15: Just Another Saturday

Original Air Date—13 March 1975
It's the day of the Orange Parade in Glasgow, but for Jon, the thrill of leading the parade and swinging the mace soon turns to horror as he learns the truth behind the costumes and songs.

Season 5, Episode 16: A Child of Hope

Original Air Date—24 April 1975

Season 5, Episode 17: The Saturday Party

Original Air Date—1 May 1975

Season 5, Episode 18: Wednesday Love

Original Air Date—30 May 1975

Season 5, Episode 19: The Dandelion Clock

Original Air Date—15 May 1975

Season 5, Episode 20: Brassneck

Original Air Date—22 May 1975

Season 5, Episode 21: The Floater

Original Air Date—29 May 1975

Season 5, Episode 22: By Common Consent

Original Air Date—5 June 1975
Adapted from Paul Thompson's celebrated play for The National Youth Theatre.By Common Consent is set in an unnamed country sometime in the future where a League of Youth has been established to restore moral and political order.The Boys of City Zone 8 are in disgrace when four of their members desert to join the 'terrorists' in the North.

Season 6


Season 6, Episode 1: Plaintiffs and Defendants

Original Air Date—14 October 1975

Season 6, Episode 2: Two Sundays

Original Air Date—21 October 1975

Season 6, Episode 3: Moss

Original Air Date—28 October 1975

Season 6, Episode 4: 84 Charing Cross Road

Original Air Date—4 November 1975
True story of a transatlantic business correspondence about used books that developed into a close friendship.

Season 6, Episode 5: Keep an Eye on Albert

Original Air Date—11 November 1975

Season 6, Episode 6: Children of the Sun

Original Air Date—18 November 1975

Season 6, Episode 7: After the Solo

Original Air Date—25 November 1975

Season 6, Episode 8: Through the Night

Original Air Date—2 December 1975

Season 6, Episode 9: A Passage to England

Original Air Date—9 December 1975

Season 6, Episode 10: Rumpole of the Bailey

Original Air Date—16 December 1975

Season 6, Episode 11: The Other Woman

Original Air Date—6 January 1976

Season 6, Episode 12: Nuts in May

Original Air Date—13 January 1976
A middle-class couple go camping in Dorset, but peace and quiet elude them.

Season 6, Episode 13: Doran's Box

Original Air Date—20 January 1976

Season 6, Episode 14: Packman's Barn

Original Air Date—27 January 1976

Season 6, Episode 15: A Story to Frighten the Children

Original Air Date—3 February 1976
Carol Mclain hurries home late one night, and encounters trouble. No one on the nearby estate claims to have seen or heard anything. And why should they care. A woman out so late on her own. She's asking for trouble. Isn't she?

Season 6, Episode 16: The Happy Hunting Ground

Original Air Date—10 February 1976

Season 6, Episode 17: The Jumping Bean Bag

Original Air Date—17 February 1976

Season 6, Episode 18: Clay, Smeddum and Greenden

Original Air Date—24 February 1976

Season 6, Episode 19: Love Letters on Blue Paper

Original Air Date—2 March 1976

Season 6, Episode 20: Willie Rough

Original Air Date—9 March 1976

Season 6, Episode 21: Tiptoe Through the Tulips

Original Air Date—16 March 1976

Season 6, Episode 22: The Peddler

Original Air Date—23 March 1976

Season 6, Episode 23: Early Struggles

Original Air Date—30 March 1976

Season 6, Episode 24: Double Dare

Original Air Date—6 April 1976
For the BBC's PLAY FOR TODAY series, Dennis Potter wrote this reflexive commentary on writers and actresses, the first Potter production to be done entirely on film. Playwright Martin Ellis (Alan Dobie) intends to write a play about a call girl visiting a client at a hotel. So he invites the actress (Kika Markham) he plans for the part to join him for a drink at a hotel, hoping this will give him some material to work with. As they talk in the hotel lobby, the boundaries between fantasy and reality begin to blur and overlap.

Season 6, Episode 25: The House of Bernarda Alba

Original Air Date—28 July 1976

Season 7


Season 7, Episode 1: Bar Mitzvah Boy

Original Air Date—14 September 1976

Season 7, Episode 2: Bet Your Life

Original Air Date—21 September 1976

Season 7, Episode 3: Rocky Marciano Is Dead

Original Air Date—28 September 1976

Season 7, Episode 4: The Elephant's Graveyard

Original Air Date—12 October 1976
Bunny has told his wife he is working as a postman, but in fact is wandering the hills all day, wondering why he doesn't want to work. He meets Jody, an odlder man who has told his wife he's working in a factory, but is in fact doing the same thing. The two men spend a day of friendship together, but what does the future offer them? And tonight is supposed to be pay night...

Season 7, Episode 5: Housewives' Choice

Original Air Date—19 October 1976

Season 7, Episode 6: Your Man from Six Counties

Original Air Date—26 October 1976

Season 7, Episode 7: Buffet

Original Air Date—2 November 1976

Season 7, Episode 8: Love on a Gunboat

Original Air Date—4 January 1977

Season 7, Episode 9: The Kiss of Death

Original Air Date—11 January 1977
Trevor is an extremely shy undertaker's assistant. He always tags along with his good friend Ronnie, when he goes to the pub with his girlfriend Sandra. Sandra introduces Trevor to her more forward friend Linda. Linda has a difficult time getting Trevor to go out with her, but she finally gets him to go to a disco; he won't dance, so Linda dances with Ronnie.

Season 7, Episode 10: Our Flesh and Blood

Original Air Date—18 January 1977

Season 7, Episode 11: Do as I Say

Original Air Date—25 January 1977

Season 7, Episode 12: Spend Spend Spend

Original Air Date—15 March 1977

Season 7, Episode 13: A Photograph

Original Air Date—22 March 1977

Season 7, Episode 14: The Price of Coal: Part 1

Original Air Date—29 March 1977

Season 7, Episode 15: The Price of Coal: Part 2

Original Air Date—5 April 1977

Season 7, Episode 16: Gotcha

Original Air Date—12 April 1977

Season 7, Episode 17: Campion's Interview

Original Air Date—12 April 1977

Season 7, Episode 18: A Choice of Evils

Original Air Date—19 April 1977

Season 7, Episode 19: The Country Party

Original Air Date—26 April 1977

Season 8


Season 8, Episode 1: Stronger Than the Sun

Original Air Date—18 October 1977

Season 8, Episode 2: Come the Revolution

Original Air Date—25 October 1977

Season 8, Episode 3: Abigail's Party

Original Air Date—1 November 1977
A TV play based on the Hampstead Theatre production. Beverly has invited her new neighbours, Angela and Tony, over for drinks. She has also asked her divorced neighbour, Sue, because Sue's fifteen year-old daughter, Abigail, was holding a party in their house. Beverly's husband, Lawrence comes home late from work, just before the guests arrive. The gathering starts off in a stiff insensitive British middle class way with people who do not know each other, until Beverly and Lawrence start sniping at each other.

Season 8, Episode 4: Oy Vay Maria

Original Air Date—8 November 1977

Season 8, Episode 5: Nipper

Original Air Date—15 November 1977

Season 8, Episode 6: One Day at a Time

Original Air Date—22 November 1977

Season 8, Episode 7: The Mayor's Charity

Original Air Date—29 November 1977

Season 8, Episode 8: Catchpenny Twist

Original Air Date—6 December 1977

Season 8, Episode 9: Charades

Original Air Date—13 December 1977

Season 8, Episode 10: The Thin End of the Wedge

Original Air Date—20 December 1977

Season 8, Episode 11: Scully's New Year's Eve

Original Air Date—3 January 1978

Season 8, Episode 12: Licking Hitler

Original Air Date—10 January 1978
During World War II, a young woman is drafted into a propaganda unit.

Season 8, Episode 13: Red Shift

Original Air Date—17 January 1978
Three men at three different times in history come to Mow Top hill in search of sanctuary from their troubles. A Roman soldier, a medieval rebel and a 1970's young man. Somehow they seem linked through a energy within the hill and an axe. Is history doomed to repeat itself or can loving another person free them?

Season 8, Episode 14: The Spongers

Original Air Date—24 January 1978

Season 8, Episode 15: Destiny

Original Air Date—31 January 1978

Season 8, Episode 16: Our Day Out

Original Air Date—7 February 1978

Season 8, Episode 17: The After-Dinner Joke

Original Air Date—14 February 1978

Season 8, Episode 18: The Legion Hall Bombing

Original Air Date—22 August 1978
The story of the trial of Willie Gallagher, convicted of bombing the Strabane (Northern Ireland) British Legion Hall in 1976.

Season 9


Season 9, Episode 1: Nina

Original Air Date—17 October 1978

Season 9, Episode 2: Victims of Apartheid

Original Air Date—24 October 1978

Season 9, Episode 3: A Touch of the Tiny Hacketts

Original Air Date—31 October 1978

Season 9, Episode 4: Dinner at the Sporting Club

Original Air Date—7 November 1978
John Thaw plays Vinny Mathews a small time boxing promoter who struggles with his conscience as to whether or not to provide a fighter for a Sporting Club promotion, a fighter he knows is unfit against an opponent who is way out of his league. However Mathews needs sponsorship and this would be the ideal opportunity to mix with the "frilly shirted" sportsmen who enjoy their lavish lifestyle as fighters slug it out as the steak is served!

Season 9, Episode 5: Donal and Sally

Original Air Date—14 November 1978

Season 9, Episode 6: Sorry

Original Air Date—21 November 1978

Season 9, Episode 7: Butterflies Don't Count

Original Air Date—28 November 1978

Season 9, Episode 8: Soldiers Talking Cleanly

Original Air Date—5 December 1978

Season 9, Episode 9: One Bummer Newsday

Original Air Date—12 December 1978

Season 9, Episode 10: The Out of Town Boys

Original Air Date—2 January 1979

Season 9, Episode 11: Vampires

Original Air Date—9 January 1979
Three boys watch horror films on late night tv and see a man in a local cemetry who they believe to be a Vampire.

Season 9, Episode 12: The Chief Mourner

Original Air Date—16 January 1979

Season 9, Episode 13: Waterloo Sunset

Original Air Date—23 January 1979

Season 9, Episode 14: Blue Remembered Hills

Original Air Date—30 January 1979
The title is taken from A.E. Housman's 1896 poem: "Into my heart an air that kills; From yon far country blows; What are those blue remembered hills..." It's 1943 on a summer's afternoon and 7 children play in the fields & woods of old England. The children's roles are all played by adults to act as "A magnifying glass to show what it's like to be a child."

Season 9, Episode 15: Who's Who

Original Air Date—6 February 1979
Slice-of-life look at class divisions among employees at a brokerage house.

Season 9, Episode 16: The Last Window Cleaner

Original Air Date—13 February 1979

Season 9, Episode 17: Ploughman's Share

Original Air Date—27 February 1979

Season 9, Episode 18: Degree of Uncertainty

Original Air Date—6 March 1979

Season 9, Episode 19: Light

Original Air Date—13 March 1979

Season 9, Episode 20: Coming Out

Original Air Date—10 April 1979

Season 9, Episode 21: Don't Be Silly

Original Air Date—24 July 1979

Season 10


Season 10, Episode 1: Long Distance Information

Original Air Date—11 October 1979

Season 10, Episode 2: Cries from a Watchtower

Original Air Date—18 October 1979

Season 10, Episode 3: Comedians

Original Air Date—25 October 1979

Season 10, Episode 4: Even Solomon

Original Air Date—1 November 1979

Season 10, Episode 5: Just a Boys' Game

Original Air Date—8 November 1979
Jake lives in the shadow of his dying grandfather, who was once the town's toughest hard man. Despite their hatred of each other, Jake's sole aim is to be as tough as the old man was. One day in Jake's life, as he drifts, drinks and fights, leads to a bleak realisation.

Season 10, Episode 6: Billy

Original Air Date—15 November 1979

Season 10, Episode 7: A Hole in Babylon

Original Air Date—29 November 1979
A siege situation develops when an attempted robbery of a restaurant goes wrong.

Season 10, Episode 8: The Slab Boys

Original Air Date—6 December 1979

Season 10, Episode 9: Katie: The Year of a Child

Original Air Date—13 December 1979

Season 10, Episode 10: The Network

Original Air Date—20 December 1979

Season 10, Episode 11: Chance of a Lifetime

Original Air Date—3 January 1980

Season 10, Episode 12: Keep Smiling

Original Air Date—10 January 1980

Season 10, Episode 13: Dreams of Leaving

Original Air Date—17 January 1980

Season 10, Episode 14: Thicker Than Water

Original Air Date—1980
Various characters have adventures on the way to a black pudding festival in Normandy!( Black pudding is a traditional sausage, ingredients of which include blood !- very popular in the North of England)

Season 10, Episode 15: Murder Rap

Original Air Date—31 January 1980

Season 10, Episode 16: Instant Enlightenment Including V.A.T.

Original Air Date—7 February 1980

Season 10, Episode 17: No Defence

Original Air Date—14 February 1980

Season 10, Episode 18: That Crazy Woman

Original Air Date—21 February 1980

Season 10, Episode 19: A Gift from Nessus

Original Air Date—28 February 1980

Season 10, Episode 20: Kate the Good Neighbour

Original Air Date—6 March 1980
An elderly English spinster lady lives alone, is heartily disliked, and will not accept aid from anyone. She has lived a life of total denial, but preserves her past in the diaries she keeps on her shelf, one for each year. We learn that her memories of one particular year continue to haunt her. She picks the journal up from time to time, revisiting the early war years, when she met and came to know the one love of her life, an RAF pilot during the Battle of Britain, and how it ended in pregnancy and ultimately grief. At the end, she learns to adjust to the idea that managed care can indeed bring new ways to deal with life's disappointments.

Season 10, Episode 21: Buses

Original Air Date—13 March 1980

Season 10, Episode 22: Shadows on Our Skin

Original Air Date—20 March 1980

Season 10, Episode 23: Ladies

Original Air Date—27 March 1980

Season 10, Episode 24: The Vanishing Army

Original Air Date—3 April 1980

Season 10, Episode 25: Not for the Likes of Us

Original Air Date—10 April 1980

Season 10, Episode 26: The Executioner

Original Air Date—17 April 1980

Season 10, Episode 27: The Imitation Game

Original Air Date—24 April 1980

Season 10, Episode 28: A Walk in the Forest

Original Air Date—14 May 1980

Season 11


Season 11, Episode 1: Pasmore

Original Air Date—21 October 1980

Season 11, Episode 2: C2 H5 OH

Original Air Date—28 October 1980

Season 11, Episode 3: The Adventures of Frank: Everybody's Fiddling Something

Original Air Date—4 November 1980

Season 11, Episode 4: The Adventures of Frank: Seeds of Ice

Original Air Date—11 November 1980

Season 11, Episode 5: Minor Complications

Original Air Date—18 November 1980

Season 11, Episode 6: Number on End

Original Air Date—25 November 1980

Season 11, Episode 7: Jude

Original Air Date—2 December 1980

Season 11, Episode 8: The Flipside of Dominick Hide

Original Air Date—9 December 1980
Dominick Hide, a time traveller from the year 2130, is studying the London transport system of 1980. Time travellers are supposed to be observers, and are strictly forbidden to land their flying saucers. One time traveller who broke this rule accidentally killed a dog, changing history and causing many future people to disappear. Inspired by his Great Aunt Mavis, Dominick decides to find his great great grandfather. He begins to land in 1980, where his strange clothes and speech make him seem an eccentric oddball. His quest brings him into contact with beautiful boutique owner Jane, and they fall in love. As Dominick's visits become more frequent and more prolonged, he increasingly risks his indiscretion being discovered by his boss, Caleb Line, and every moment he spends in the past increases the danger that he will catastrophically change the future.

Season 11, Episode 9: Name for the Day

Original Air Date—16 December 1980

Season 11, Episode 10: Jessie

Original Air Date—23 December 1980
A woman starts work as a nanny to a mute boy in a Victorian household. The boy's growing attachment to her, however, causes far more problems than his original detachment from his family.

Season 11, Episode 11: Beyond the Pale

Original Air Date—6 January 1981

Season 11, Episode 12: The Muscle Market

Original Air Date—13 January 1981

Season 11, Episode 13: A Brush with Mr Porter on the Road to Eldorado

Original Air Date—20 January 1981

Season 11, Episode 14: Dear Brutus

Original Air Date—27 January 1981

Season 11, Episode 15: The Cause

Original Air Date—3 February 1981

Season 11, Episode 16: Beloved Enemy

Original Air Date—10 February 1981

Season 11, Episode 17: The Kamikaze Ground Staff Reunion Dinner

Original Air Date—17 February 1981
On August the 15th, 1945, after the official surrender of the Empire of Japan, Admiral Matome Ugaki led the last Special Attack Force pilots across the Pacific, to crash into American ships. Thirty-five years later, the men who serviced the aeroplanes are still meeting up for their annual dinner. Now settled into civilian jobs - dentist, baker, taxi-driver, insurance salesman - and with children and grandchildren, they bemoan the decay of traditional Japanese values. Hard liquor is imbibed, toasts raised to the memory of the heroic dead, and old rivalries resurface. The survivors' dissatisfaction with post-war life comes to a head when, in a moment of drunken inspiration, Tokkotai the airline pilot decides on a symbolic gesture to show that the kamikaze spirit lives on.

Season 11, Episode 18: The Union

Original Air Date—24 February 1981

Season 11, Episode 19: Sorry

Original Air Date—3 March 1981

Season 11, Episode 20: The Garland

Original Air Date—10 March 1981

Season 11, Episode 21: The Sin Bin

Original Air Date—17 March 1981

Season 11, Episode 22: Before Water Lilies

Original Air Date—24 March 1981

Season 11, Episode 23: Bavarian Night

Original Air Date—31 March 1981

Season 11, Episode 24: The Good Time Girls

Original Air Date—7 April 1981

Season 11, Episode 25: Baby Talk

Original Air Date—14 April 1981

Season 11, Episode 26: A Turn for the Worse

Original Air Date—28 April 1981

Season 11, Episode 27: Psy-Warriors

Original Air Date—12 May 1981
Soldiers are captured and interrogated by terrorists: but is it real or only a sadistic form of psychological training exercise?

Season 12


Season 12, Episode 1: Country

Original Air Date—20 October 1981
In 1945, the Carlions assemble at an English country house for a family gathering. During the event, they must determine who is to take over the family brewing empire, since the present head of the business, Sir Frederick, is getting old. The results of the 1945 general election causes a major stir, and some angry farmers occupy a barn.

Season 12, Episode 2: London Is Drowning

Original Air Date—27 October 1981

Season 12, Episode 3: A Room for the Winter

Original Air Date—3 November 1981
A former South African anti-apartheid campaigner deals with life as an expatriate in London.

Season 12, Episode 4: No Visible Scar

Original Air Date—17 November 1981

Season 12, Episode 5: Iris in the Traffic, Ruby in the Rain

Original Air Date—24 November 1981

Season 12, Episode 6: Protest

Original Air Date—1 December 1981

Season 12, Episode 7: United Kingdom

Original Air Date—8 December 1981

Season 12, Episode 8: PQ17

Original Air Date—15 December 1981

Season 12, Episode 9: The Factory

Original Air Date—22 December 1981

Season 12, Episode 10: England's Greens and Peasant Land

Original Air Date—5 January 1982

Season 12, Episode 11: A Cotswold Death

Original Air Date—12 January 1982

Season 12, Episode 12: Under the Skin

Original Air Date—19 January 1982

Season 12, Episode 13: Commitments

Original Air Date—26 January 1982

Season 12, Episode 14: Life After Death

Original Air Date—2 February 1982

Season 12, Episode 15: The Silly Season

Original Air Date—9 February 1982

Season 12, Episode 16: Too Late to Talk to Billy

Original Air Date—16 February 1982

Season 12, Episode 17: Willie's Last Stand

Original Air Date—23 February 1982

Season 12, Episode 18: Tishoo

Original Air Date—9 March 1982

Season 12, Episode 19: Home Sweet Home

Original Air Date—16 March 1982
Three postal workers and their dysfunctional families interact over cups of tea and Sunday dinner.

Season 12, Episode 20: A Sudden Wrench

Original Air Date—23 March 1982

Season 12, Episode 21: Eve Set the Balls of Corruption Rolling

Original Air Date—30 March 1982

Season 12, Episode 22: Whistling Wally

Original Air Date—6 April 1982

Season 13


Season 13, Episode 1: Soft Targets

Original Air Date—19 October 1982

Season 13, Episode 2: Three Minute Heroes

Original Air Date—26 October 1982

Season 13, Episode 3: The Remainder Man

Original Air Date—2 November 1982

Season 13, Episode 4: Intensive Care

Original Air Date—9 November 1982
When Denis Midgley's father is rushed to hospital, Midgley drops everything to be by his side. They've never really got on, so Midgley wants to be sure he's there if his father ever regains consciousness. As he hates his job as a schoolteacher, and his home-life with his wife, her senile mother and their insolent teenage son, he has no qualms about lingering around the hospital. But as days turn into weeks, his father obstinately refuses to 'slip away', and Denis' motivation for staying by his father's bedside has more and more to do with Valery, a young nurse.

Season 13, Episode 5: A Mother Like Him

Original Air Date—16 November 1982

Season 13, Episode 6: John David

Original Air Date—23 November 1982

Season 13, Episode 7: Aliens

Original Air Date—30 November 1982

Season 13, Episode 8: Another Flip for Dominick

Original Air Date—14 December 1982
Sequel to "Play for Today: The Flipside of Dominick Hide (#11.8)" (1980). Now a respected teacher of temporal observers, Dominick has not visited the past for several years. He is content with his lot, resigned to the idea that he will never again see Jane, the lover he left in 1980, or their son. Then his boss gives him a new mission: to find out what has become of one of Dominick's students, Pyrus Bonnington, who has gone missing in 1982. Pyrus, who idolises Dominick, is attempting to emulate his exploits in the past. Dominick's search reunites him with Jane who now lives with a musician (conveniently on a six-month stint in Brazil) and allows him to meet his son for the first time. Pyrus is attempting to rescue a foreign princess being held to ransom by terrorists, which might have a disastrous affect on future history if he succeeds. Matters become even more complicated when Dominick and Jane quarrel, and he decides to use his time machine to revisit the previous day, and try to repair the rift. Meanwhile, in Dominick's own time, his wife becomes increasingly disenchanted with his dalliance in the past, and runs off with their baby-sitter.

Season 13, Episode 9: Last Love

Original Air Date—1 March 1983

Season 13, Episode 10: Gates of Gold

Original Air Date—8 March 1983

Season 13, Episode 11: Wayne and Albert (TV Movie)

Original Air Date—15 March 1983

Season 13, Episode 12: Atlantis

Original Air Date—22 March 1983

Season 13, Episode 13: The Last Term

Original Air Date—5 April 1983

Season 13, Episode 14: Reluctant Chickens

Original Air Date—12 April 1983

Season 13, Episode 15: Shall I Be Mother?

Original Air Date—19 April 1983

Season 13, Episode 16: The Falklands Factor

Original Air Date—26 April 1983

Season 13, Episode 17: A Matter of Choice for Billy

Original Air Date—10 May 1983

Season 13, Episode 18: Floating Off

Original Air Date—24 August 1983
Businessman Jack Humpage and his secretary Janice try to make an unconventional deal with a merchant bank before Humpage's son finds out.

Season 14


Season 14, Episode 1: Stan's Last Game

Original Air Date—25 October 1983

Season 14, Episode 2: Young Shoulders

Original Air Date—14 February 1984

Season 14, Episode 3: A Coming to Terms for Billy

Original Air Date—21 February 1984

Season 14, Episode 4: Z for Zachariah

Original Air Date—28 February 1984
Based on a book of the same name, depicting events in a Welsh valley after a nuclear holocaust, in which almost everyone has dies, leaving just two families. Eventually just one girl and one man are left, and the majority of the film is about how they cope with the situation and each other.

Season 14, Episode 5: Moving on the Edge

Original Air Date—6 March 1984

Season 14, Episode 6: Desert of Lies

Original Air Date—13 March 1984

Season 14, Episode 7: Hard Feelings

Original Air Date—20 March 1984

Season 14, Episode 8: Under the Hammer

Original Air Date—27 March 1984

Season 14, Episode 9: King

Original Air Date—3 April 1984

Season 14, Episode 10: Rainy Day Women

Original Air Date—10 April 1984
A film about the cruelty of war. Charles Dance plays an officer who is sent out to investigate a rumour about German spies during the chaotic days of 1940. At the same time three land girls are arriving at a sleepy little village. These three together with a German refugee family and the local doctor falls victims to war hysteria and is killed by a local mob - while Charles Dance is trying to rescue them.

Season 14, Episode 11: Dog Ends

Original Air Date—17 July 1984

Season 14, Episode 12: The Groundling and the Kite

Original Air Date—24 July 1984

Season 14, Episode 13: The Cry

Original Air Date—21 July 1984

Season 14, Episode 14: It Could Happen to Anybody

Original Air Date—14 August 1984

Season 14, Episode 15: Only Children

Original Air Date—21 August 1984

Season 14, Episode 16: The Amazing Miss Stella Estelle

Original Air Date—28 August 1984

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Brimstone and Treacle

Original Air Date—25 August 1987

Talk to Me

Original Air Date—1984

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