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Series 7

19 episodes · 1976

  1. 1

    The Bar Mitzvah Boy

    Sep 14, 197675 min★ 7.6

    A story exploring the emotions of a boy undrgoing the traditional Jewish ceremony

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    Bet Your Life

    Sep 21, 197675 min★ 6.9

    Like alcoholism, gambling is a disease. Ches, a compulsive gambler, is sent for medical help. A wonder drug perhaps? Or hypnosis maybe? Ches finds that his psychiatrist has other ideas.

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    Rocky Marciano Is Dead

    Sep 28, 197675 min★ 8.1

    Harry Marcus is a former welterweight champion mourning the loss of the past and dreaming of a return to the glory years of boxing. When a squatter moves in next door, does he have what it takes to fulfil Harry's dreams?

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    The Elephants' Graveyard

    Oct 12, 197675 min★ 7.4

    Bunny’s wife thinks he is a postman, but in reality he spends his days in the Scottish hills. One day he meets Jody, a fellow walker.

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    Housewives' Choice

    Oct 19, 197675 min★ 7.2

    When Joyce appears on the door-step she looks like the perfect 'kindly, respectable lady whom Marcia needs to look after her baby. But Joyce only seems to be the average housewife.

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    Your Man from Six Counties

    Oct 26, 197675 min★ 7.8

    A young man from Belfast is sent south to stay with relatives in an attempt to keep him out of trouble.

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    Buffet

    Nov 2, 197675 min★ 5.8

    Freddie is going through an existential crisis as everyone around him seems to doubt their own identity and the entire purpose of conversation. Surrounded by inflation and extra marital affairs, his only solace is in buffet room drinking.

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    Love on a Gunboat

    Jan 4, 197775 min

    In 1956 Britain staggers through crises in Suez and Cyprus while Leslie Potter pursues and marries Monica Dobbs. Twenty years later the nation has still not recovered. Neither has Leslie.

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    The Kiss of Death

    Jan 11, 197775 min★ 6.6

    A young man's chances at romance are thwarted by his own shyness.

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    Our Flesh and Blood

    Jan 18, 197775 min★ 6.5

    How Mums and Dads feel when they have one.

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    Do As I Say

    Jan 25, 197775 min★ 7.0

    A quietly unhappy housewife finds a stranger in her house and is raped at knife-point by him. But when she turns to friends, neighbors and her parents-in-law for sympathy, they all seem preoccupied by other matters.

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    Spend, Spend, Spend

    Mar 15, 197775 min★ 8.2

    The rags-to-riches-to-rags story of a 1960s football pools winner, based on a true story

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    A Photograph

    Mar 22, 197775 min★ 7.4

    A couple receives a photograph in the mail of two girls sitting in front of a caravan and neither can identify the people or the place.

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    The Price of Coal: Meet The People

    Mar 29, 197775 min★ 7.8

    A pair of plays, broadcast over two weeks, about mining life: ""Meet the People,"" about a coal mining community preparing for a royal visit, and ""Back to Reality,"" about a coal mining disaster that brings tragedy to a community.

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    The Price of Coal: Back To Reality

    Apr 5, 197775 min★ 7.7

    A pair of plays, broadcast over two weeks, about mining life: ""Meet the People,"" about a coal mining community preparing for a royal visit, and ""Back to Reality,"" about a coal mining disaster that brings tragedy to a community.

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    Gotcha

    Apr 12, 197775 min★ 7.7

    A student holds his teacher hostage in the classroom on the last day of school.

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    Campion's Interview

    Apr 12, 197775 min★ 7.3

    A story about school.

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    A Choice of Evils

    Apr 19, 197775 min★ 7.3

    The story of Father Borelli who in Rome during World War II must choose between freedom and his principles

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    The Country Party

    Apr 26, 197775 min

    Richard Elkinson, the former stockbroker, is now running a country restaurant. His daughter decides to spring a surprise on him in an attempt to change his life for the better.