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Season: 1 | 2
Year: 1977 | 1978 | 1979 | unknown

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Season 1

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Season 1, Episode 1: Professional Foul

21 September 1977
Three philosophy professors travel to Prague for a conference. One of them, Anderson, is forced to rethink his ideas on ethics when a former student is arrested by the Czech authorities for writing about individualist approaches to morality.

Season 1, Episode 2: Exiles

28 September 1977

Season 1, Episode 3: Able's Will

5 October 1977

Season 1, Episode 4: The Sinking of HMS Victoria

12 October 1977
Dramatization of events surrounding the loss of the turret ship HMS Victoria during fleet exercises off Tripoli on June 22, 1893.

Season 1, Episode 5: True Patriot

19 October 1977

Season 1, Episode 6: Shooting the Chandelier

26 October 1977

Season 1, Episode 7: The Kitchen

2 November 1977

Season 1, Episode 8: Episode #1.8

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Season 1, Episode 9: Forgotten Love Songs

4 January 1978

Season 1, Episode 10: A Visit from Miss Protheroe

11 January 1978
Arthur Dodsworth has recently retired. He lives alone except for his budgie and memories of his late wife Winnie. One afternoon his nap is interrupted by the doorbell; his former secretary, Peggy Prothero, has come to visit. A brash, charmless woman who seems to take no pleasure in anything but putting people down, Miss Prothero wants to fill her old boss in on all the changes that have taken place at work since he left. Dodsworth isn't very curious, and as the visit wears on it puts a little strain on his politeness and patience. Miss Prothero doesn't enjoy it much either, but lingers on as there's a bombshell she wants to drop. The docketing system Dodsworth introduced thirty years earlier, which revolutionised the firm, has been scrapped by her adored new boss Mr Skinner. The crowning achievement of Dodsworth's career has just become obsolete, and she wants to tell him all about it.

Season 1, Episode 11: Mr. & Ms. Bureaucrat

18 January 1978

Season 1, Episode 12: Foreign Affairs

25 January 1978

Season 1, Episode 13: The Dissolution of Marcus Fleischman

1 February 1978

Season 1, Episode 14: The O'Hooligan File

8 February 1978

Season 1, Episode 15: The Turkey Who Lives on the Hill

15 February 1978

Season 1, Episode 16: Flayed

22 February 1978

Season 1, Episode 17: She Fell Among Thieves

1 March 1978
A villainess concocts a nefarious plot around her stepdaughter and matches wits with an English gentleman adventurer.

Season 1, Episode 18: Stargazy on Zummerdown

15 March 1978
In the 23rd century, Britain (now called Albion) is made up of two distinct communities - the Aggros (farm workers) and the Toonies (industrial workers). They meet at Zummerdown for the annual midsummer festival of Stargazy.

Season 1, Episode 19: Liza

22 March 1978

Season 1, Episode 20: For Tea on Sunday

29 March 1978

Season 1, Episode 21: When the Actors Come

3 May 1978

Season 1, Episode 22: Ice Age

17 May 1978

Season 1, Episode 23: The Copyist

24 May 1978

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Season 2

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Season 2, Episode 1: Langrishe Go Down

20 September 1978
In the late 1930s, three reclusive middle-aged spinster sisters live on their run down family estate in Ireland. Otto Beck, a perpetual graduate student from Bavaria with a habit of making pompous declamations, rents the back lodge to work on his esoteric thesis. Imogen Langrishe, the least repressed of the sisters, begins an affair with Otto. Imogen takes the love affair seriously, but Otto just enjoys the cheap lodging and the comfort of Imogen.

Season 2, Episode 2: Fairies

27 September 1978

Season 2, Episode 3: Fearless Frank

4 October 1978

Season 2, Episode 4: Episode #2.4

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Season 2, Episode 5: Episode #2.5

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Season 2, Episode 6: Episode #2.6

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Season 2, Episode 7: Return Fare

1 November 1978

Season 2, Episode 8: Another Day

22 November 1978

Season 2, Episode 9: Episode #2.9

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Season 2, Episode 10: Night People

6 December 1978

Season 2, Episode 11: Renoir, My Father

13 December 1978
A play about the life and work of the artist Auguste Renoir, based on the book by his film director son, Jean Renoir.

Season 2, Episode 12: On Giant's Shoulders

28 March 1979
Len and Hazel Wiles, a middle-aged childless couple who live on a remote farm, decide to adopt a coloured boy, Terry, who has no limbs because of the effects of Thalidomide. They encounter a great deal of resistance and scepticism from their friends and neighbours. Terry Wiles plays himself in this play.

Season 2, Episode 13: Stepping Out

4 April 1979

Season 2, Episode 14: A Light That Shines

11 April 1979

Season 2, Episode 15: In England's Green and Pleasant Land

16 May 1979