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Episodes: All (107)

Season: 1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  unknown
Year: 1974  |  1975  |  1976  |  1977  |  1978  |  1979  |  1980  |  1981  |  1982  |  1983


Season 1


Season 1, Episode 1: Sizwe Bansi Is Dead

Original Air Date—13 March 1974

Season 1, Episode 2: The Joke

Original Air Date—6 August 1974

Season 1, Episode 3: The Cafeteria

Original Air Date—13 August 1974

Season 2


Season 2, Episode 1: The Breakthrough

Original Air Date—8 January 1975

Season 2, Episode 2: Mrs. Acland's Ghosts

Original Air Date—15 January 1975

Season 3


Season 3, Episode 1: Kites

Original Air Date—19 March 1976

Season 3, Episode 2: An Accident of Class and Sex

Original Air Date—26 March 1976

Season 3, Episode 3: A Martyr to the System

Original Air Date—2 April 1976

Season 3, Episode 4: The Button Man

Original Air Date—9 April 1976

Season 3, Episode 5: Practical Experience

Original Air Date—16 April 1976

Season 3, Episode 6: Dad

Original Air Date—23 April 1976

Season 3, Episode 7: The Chauffeur

Original Air Date—30 April 1976

Season 3, Episode 8: Play Things

Original Air Date—7 May 1976

Season 3, Episode 9: Jumbo

Original Air Date—14 May 1976

Season 4


Season 4, Episode 1: The Mind Beyond: Meriel, the Ghost Girl

Original Air Date—29 September 1976
Livingston, a psychic investigator, is asked to attend a seance. Can it be that he has finally discovered a genuine supernatural phenomena!?

Season 4, Episode 2: The Mind Beyond: Double Echo

Original Air Date—6 October 1976

Season 4, Episode 3: The Mind Beyond: The Love of a Good Woman

Original Air Date—13 October 1976

Season 4, Episode 4: The Mind Beyond: The Daedalus Equations

Original Air Date—20 October 1976

Season 4, Episode 5: The Mind Beyond: Stones

Original Air Date—27 October 1976

Season 4, Episode 6: The Mind Beyond: The Man with the Power

Original Air Date—3 November 1976
An ordinary man suddenly finds that he has psychic powers.

Season 5


Season 5, Episode 1: The Achurch Letters

Original Air Date—12 January 1977

Season 6


Season 6, Episode 1: School Play

Original Air Date—7 November 1979

Season 6, Episode 2: Every Good Boy Deserves Favour

Original Air Date—14 November 1979

Season 6, Episode 3: The Brylcreem Boys

Original Air Date—21 November 1979

Season 6, Episode 4: An Affinity with Dr. Still

Original Air Date—28 November 1979

Season 6, Episode 5: Home Movies

Original Air Date—5 December 1979

Season 6, Episode 6: Sweet Wine of Youth

Original Air Date—12 December 1979

Season 6, Episode 7: Speed King

Original Air Date—19 December 1979

Season 6, Episode 8: Pews

Original Air Date—12 January 1980

Season 6, Episode 9: Gentle Folk

Original Air Date—19 January 1980

Season 6, Episode 10: Trouble with Gregory

Original Air Date—23 January 1980

Season 6, Episode 11: Lifelike

Original Air Date—26 January 1980

Season 6, Episode 12: The Enigma

Original Air Date—9 February 1980

Season 6, Episode 13: Hesther for Example

Original Air Date—16 February 1980

Season 6, Episode 14: The Best of Friends

Original Air Date—8 March 1980

Season 6, Episode 15: In Hiding

Original Air Date—15 March 1980
A teenager learns about life and death while staying with his aunt during the school holidays.

Season 6, Episode 16: Rottingdean

Original Air Date—22 March 1980

Season 6, Episode 17: The Dig

Original Air Date—18 April 1980

Season 6, Episode 18: Happy

Original Air Date—25 April 1980

Season 6, Episode 19: Mary's Wife

Original Air Date—2 May 1980

Season 6, Episode 20: Games Without Frontiers

Original Air Date—9 May 1980

Season 6, Episode 21: The Unborn

Original Air Date—16 May 1980
A physicist has visions of his unborn baby - it turns out that the child will grow up to become a Hitler-like dictator responsible for World War III.

Season 6, Episode 22: Electric in the City

Original Air Date—23 May 1980

Season 6, Episode 23: Hallelujah, Mary Plum

Original Air Date—13 July 1980

Season 6, Episode 24: Dalhousie's Luck

Original Air Date—3 August 1980

Season 6, Episode 25: An Ordered Life

Original Air Date—10 August 1980

Season 7


Season 7, Episode 1: Caught on a Train

Original Air Date—31 October 1980
Peter boards a train to attend an important business meeting across Europe. His train trip is made more complicated by two women also assigned to his train compartment. One is an independent American whom Peter finds attractive. The other is Frau Messner - an extremely particular and demanding older European woman. Between the two of them, they try different aspects of Peter's patience...

Season 7, Episode 2: Fatal Spring

Original Air Date—7 November 1980

Season 7, Episode 3: The Black Madonna

Original Air Date—14 November 1980

Season 7, Episode 4: The Happy Autumn Fields

Original Air Date—21 November 1980

Season 7, Episode 5: Grown-Ups

Original Air Date—28 November 1980
Dick and Mandy, a young working class couple, move into a council house in Canterbury, and find Mr. Butcher, one of their former teachers, living next door. Mandy's unmarried sister, Gloria, is constantly dropping in, and will not take any hints that the couple would prefer to be left alone, until her presence finally goads them to action.

Season 7, Episode 6: My Dear Palestrina

Original Air Date—5 December 1980

Season 7, Episode 7: Shaping Up

Original Air Date—12 December 1980

Season 7, Episode 8: Standing in for Henry

Original Air Date—19 December 1980

Season 7, Episode 9: Fothergill

Original Air Date—9 January 1981

Season 7, Episode 10: One Hundred and Eighty!!!

Original Air Date—16 January 1981

Season 7, Episode 11: The Kindness of Mrs. Radcliffe

Original Air Date—23 January 1981

Season 7, Episode 12: A Last Visitor for Mr. Hugh Peter

Original Air Date—30 January 1981

Season 7, Episode 13: Journal of Bridget Hitler

Original Air Date—6 February 1981

Season 7, Episode 14: Days at the Beach

Original Air Date—13 February 1981
In 1920, a trio of British soldiers have to guard an unexploded mine that has washed up on a beach.

Season 7, Episode 15: Bobby Wants to Meet Me

Original Air Date—20 February 1981

Season 7, Episode 16: Days

Original Air Date—27 February 1981

Season 7, Episode 17: Clapperclaw

Original Air Date—6 March 1981

Season 7, Episode 18: Unity

Original Air Date—20 March 1981
Period Drama. The true story of Unity Mitford who in the 1930's went to live in Germany and was friends with Adolf Hitler.

Season 7, Episode 19: Skylark

Original Air Date—27 March 1981

Season 7, Episode 20: Elizabeth Alone: Part 1

Original Air Date—3 April 1981

Season 7, Episode 21: Elizabeth Alone: Part 2

Original Air Date—10 April 1981

Season 7, Episode 22: Elizabeth Alone: Part 3

Original Air Date—17 April 1981

Season 7, Episode 23: The Man Who Almost Knew Eamonn Andrews

Original Air Date—24 April 1981

Season 7, Episode 24: You're All Right, How Am I?

Original Air Date—1 May 1981

Season 7, Episode 25: The Day War Broke Out

Original Air Date—15 May 1981

Season 7, Episode 26: Random Moments in a May Garden

Original Air Date—22 May 1981

Season 7, Episode 27: Going Gently

Original Air Date—5 June 1981
Play about two elderly cancer patients suffering in hospital.

Season 7, Episode 28: Marriage

Original Air Date—10 July 1981

Season 8


Season 8, Episode 1: Mrs. Reinhardt

Original Air Date—30 October 1981

Season 8, Episode 2: Last Summer's Child

Original Air Date—6 November 1981

Season 8, Episode 3: Autumn Sunshine

Original Air Date—13 November 1981

Season 8, Episode 4: The Grudge Fight

Original Air Date—27 November 1981

Season 8, Episode 5: Virginia Fly Is Drowning

Original Air Date—4 December 1981

Season 8, Episode 6: Findings on a Late Afternoon

Original Air Date—11 December 1981

Season 8, Episode 7: Dancing Country

Original Air Date—18 December 1981

Season 8, Episode 8: A Silly Little Habit

Original Air Date—15 January 1982

Season 8, Episode 9: Aubrey

Original Air Date—22 January 1982

Season 8, Episode 10: Preview

Original Air Date—29 January 1982

Season 8, Episode 11: Out of Step

Original Air Date—5 February 1982

Season 8, Episode 12: A Shilling Life

Original Air Date—12 February 1982

Season 8, Episode 13: The Workshop

Original Air Date—19 February 1982

Season 8, Episode 14: How Many Miles to Babylon?

Original Air Date—26 February 1982

Season 8, Episode 15: The Pigman's Protege

Original Air Date—5 March 1982

Season 8, Episode 16: A Pocketful of Dreams

Original Air Date—7 November 1980

Season 8, Episode 17: Keeping in Touch

Original Air Date—19 March 1982

Season 8, Episode 18: The Guest

Original Air Date—26 March 1982

Season 8, Episode 19: The Queen of Annagh

Original Air Date—16 April 1982

Season 8, Episode 20: By George

Original Air Date—23 April 1982

Season 8, Episode 21: Lunch

Original Air Date—30 April 1982

Season 8, Episode 22: Passing Through

Original Air Date—7 May 1982

Season 8, Episode 23: Jake's End

Original Air Date—14 May 1982

Season 8, Episode 24: Housewarming

Original Air Date—21 May 1982

Season 8, Episode 25: Easy Money

Original Air Date—28 May 1982

Season 8, Episode 26: Potatohead Blues

Original Air Date—4 June 1982

Season 8, Episode 28: Chains

Original Air Date—18 June 1982

Season 8, Episode 29: Come Into the Garden, Maud

Original Air Date—7 July 1982

Season 8, Episode 30: A Song at Twilight

Original Air Date—9 July 1982

Unknown Season


Diane

Original Air Date—9 July 1975

Perfect Shadows

Original Air Date—1983

Thank You, Comrades

Original Air Date—19 December 1978

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