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Series 14

21 episodes · 1983

  1. 1

    Stan's Last Game

    Oct 25, 198375 min★ 7.6

    James 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.

  2. 2

    Young Shoulders

    Feb 14, 198475 min★ 7.7

    Cynical teenager Andrew Groves re-evaluates his attitude to life and his parents after his sister dies in a plane crash.

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    A Coming to Terms for Billy

    Feb 21, 198475 min★ 6.3

    When his father comes home to Belfast after more than 2 years in England, conflicts arise with Billy

  4. 4

    Z for Zachariah

    Feb 28, 198475 min★ 6.8

    After a nuclear holocaust, only a man and a woman survive in a Welsh valley.

  5. 5

    Moving on the Edge

    Mar 6, 198475 min★ 6.6

    A woman in a state of personal crisis finds it hard to communicate with her husband and family.

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    Desert of Lies

    Mar 13, 198475 min★ 6.6

    An expedition tracing the path of long-lost missionaries meets with tragedy in the Kalahari Desert.

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    Hard Feelings

    Mar 20, 198475 min★ 7.0

    A group of unemployed Oxford drop-outs living in a Brixton commune get their come-uppance by one of them.

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    Under the Hammer

    Mar 27, 198475 min★ 8.2

    Concerning the life of the artist Vincent Van Gogh

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    King

    Apr 3, 198475 min★ 7.2

    A 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.

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    Rainy Day Women

    Apr 10, 198475 min★ 7.1

    In 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

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    Dog Ends

    Jul 17, 198475 min★ 6.2

    In a future society where euthansia is common, a man signs papers to have his father put down

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    The Groundling and the Kite

    Jul 24, 198475 min★ 6.4

    Peter 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?

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    The Cry

    Jul 31, 198475 min★ 7.1

    In 1959 Ulster, a journalist witnesses the beating of a youth

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    It Could Happen to Anybody

    Aug 14, 198475 min★ 6.4

    A 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.

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    Only Children

    Aug 21, 198475 min★ 6.8

    A young woman's comfortable life is turned upside down when she has a baby.

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    The Amazing Miss Stella Estelle

    Aug 28, 198475 min

    Miss 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.

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    The Long March

    Nov 20, 198490 min

    A woman returns to Belfast after ten years in England and becomes involved in the Maze prison protest.

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    Punters

    Nov 27, 198475 min

    What is the secret of Joey and Spansky's success at the races?

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    Talk To Me

    Dec 11, 198475 min

    Matthew and his wife are deeply suspicious of psychoanalysis. It's not their sort of thing at all.

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    Bird Fancier

    Jan 15, 198575 min

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    Brigadista

    Feb 5, 198575 min

    When 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.