BBC anthology series featuring original plays, theatrical and literary adaptations. Over 300 episodes of varying lengths aired from 1970-1984, with some later developed into series, including Rumpole of the Bailey and Gangsters.

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21 episoder

  • Stan's Last Game
    E1
    Stan's Last GameJames Grout and Bert Parnaby are rival chairmen of a northern football club in the run-up to an important cup match. As tempers fray, retiring president Charles Lamb provides a calming voice of sanity.
  • Young Shoulders
    E2
    Young ShouldersCynical teenager Andrew Groves re-evaluates his attitude to life and his parents after his sister dies in a plane crash.
  • A Coming to Terms for Billy
    E3
    A Coming to Terms for BillyWhen his father comes home to Belfast after more than 2 years in England, conflicts arise with Billy
  • Z for Zachariah
    E4
    Z for ZachariahAfter a nuclear holocaust, only a man and a woman survive in a Welsh valley.
  • Moving on the Edge
    E5
    Moving on the EdgeA woman in a state of personal crisis finds it hard to communicate with her husband and family.
  • Desert of Lies
    E6
    Desert of LiesAn expedition tracing the path of long-lost missionaries meets with tragedy in the Kalahari Desert.
  • Hard Feelings
    E7
    Hard FeelingsA group of unemployed Oxford drop-outs living in a Brixton commune get their come-uppance by one of them.
  • Under the Hammer
    E8
    Under the HammerConcerning the life of the artist Vincent Van Gogh
  • King
    E9
    KingA man who has had a good life in England wants to retire to Jamaica, but the celebration with his daughters doesn't go as expected.
  • Rainy Day Women
    E10
    Rainy Day WomenIn 1940, during World War II, an officer is sent to investigate rumors of German spies in a sleepy village where various people are the victims of war hysteria
  • Dog Ends
    E11
    Dog EndsArthur's life is becoming miserable as he has to share his family home with an elderly dog and his incontinent father. His neighbour suggests a specialist who can help resolve the situation - but has Arthur fully understood?
  • The Groundling and the Kite
    E12
    The Groundling and the KitePeter is a songwriter, while his old friend Jimmy is an A and R (Artists and Repertoire) man. But when Jimmy tries to sell one of Peter's songs, Peter is furious. Can the friendship survive?
  • The Cry
    E13
    The CryIn 1959 Ulster, a journalist witnesses the beating of a youth
  • It Could Happen to Anybody
    E14
    It Could Happen to AnybodyA long-suffering Glasgow housewife puts up with years of her husband's violence and drunkenness - and then something happens which makes her snap and fight back.
  • Only Children
    E15
    Only ChildrenA young woman's comfortable life is turned upside down when she has a baby.
  • The Amazing Miss Stella Estelle
    E16
    The Amazing Miss Stella EstelleMiss Stella Estelle is a cabaret singer in working men's clubs, and she sings songs from the 1960s to support a large and difficult family. But how long can it go on? The backdrop is a family in decay: husband out of work, wife working and still doing the domestics, daughter the singer and hopeful star, son her "manager" but in reality going nowhere. Stella plays a crummy club circuit, singing songs for oldies for £50 a night - She's never going to be a star because of her parents' short-sighted greed.
  • The Long March
    E17
    The Long MarchA woman returns to Belfast after ten years in England and becomes involved in the Maze prison protest.
  • Punters
    E18
    PuntersWhat is the secret of Joey and Spansky's success at the races?
  • Talk To Me
    E19
    Talk To MeMatthew and his wife are deeply suspicious of psychoanalysis. It's not their sort of thing at all.
  • Bird Fancier
    E20
    Bird FancierA young boy is drawn into the world of pigeon racing in a northern English town.
  • Brigadista
    E21
    BrigadistaWhen best-selling author James Fuller Hayes comes to Glasgow to publicise his personal account of the Spanish Civil War, a surprise reunion with two of his old comrades from the Int Brigade reveals contradictory & devastating information.
  • Colin WellandForfatter
  • Graeme MacDonaldProducer

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