Sunday PremiereStaffel 1988

Sunday night dramas on subjects as diverse as a dodgy doctor and a tale of cat lovers and the social circle they inhabit.

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  • Tumbledown
    F1
    TumbledownApril 1982. The British task force sails for the South Atlantic. Among their number is 22-year-old Robert Lawrence , an officer in the elite regiment of Scots Guards. On the bleak hills of the Falkland Islands, they fight and win a series of bloody battles. For many of the soldiers it is a violent initiation into active combat, but for Robert, wounded hours before the Argentine surrender, the real battle begins when he returns home. Having been shot in the head by an Argentine sniper in the Battle of Mount Tumbledown, and left paralyzed on his left side, he must now learn to adjust to his new disability.
  • Across The Lake
    F2
    Across The LakeStarring Anthony Hopkins as speed king Donald Campbell. Set in 1967, Campbell broke the 300mph water speed barrier in his beloved Bluebird K7.
  • Deadline
    F3
    DeadlineIn a small (fictional) emirate of the Persian Gulf a world-weary journalist (Granville Jones , one of the forgotten 'greats' of old-time Fleet Street) is caught up in a coup where the Emir’s son, under the influence of a political renegade, attempts to depose his father - the ruling monarch. Flashbacks of the journalist’s life show us how his relationships with the Emir and a beautiful young woman (archaeologist Romy Burton) develop and flourish. Can events also recall the journalistic skills that could save his old friend, the Emir, and save the peace of the whole region?
  • The Most Dangerous Man In The World
    F4
    The Most Dangerous Man In The WorldIn May 1981 a young Turk, Mehmet Ali Ağca, shot Pope John Paul II. Who was Ağca? Why did he do it? What made him want to be a killer?
  • The Bell-Run
    F5
    The Bell-RunDeep-sea diving is well paid and glamorous. But the strain is huge, living in a tiny compression chamber for four weeks at a time. And if anything goes wrong, you’re a dead man.No wonder Joe can’t sleep easy at nights. His nightmares might become reality.
  • Coppers
    F6
    CoppersTo Robert, Graham seems a rather peculiar sort of copper. It is only when Robert joins forces with him that he realises just how extraordinary. Two bored twentysomethings buy a Vauxhall Cavalier kit it out with a siren and spend their evenings masquerading as police officers.
  • Number 27
    F7
    Number 27Television play by Michael Palin. Ninety-year-old Miss Barwick has lived peacefully in the same house all her life, that is until a young property developer arrives at her front door to make her an offer.
  • The Four Minute Mile
    F8
    The Four Minute MileFor two brilliant young athletes - Roger Bannister of England and John Landy of Australia - the 1952 Helsinki Olympics present an exciting challenge. But events help set them on the path to something even more memorable than an Olympic gold medal - the race to break the four-minute mile…

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