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Series 14
1983 · 21 episodes
1. Stan's Last Game
1983-10-25 · 75m
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. Young Shoulders
1984-02-14 · 75m
Cynical teenager Andrew Groves re-evaluates his attitude to life and his parents after his sister dies in a plane crash.
3. A Coming to Terms for Billy
1984-02-21 · 75m
When his father comes home to Belfast after more than 2 years in England, conflicts arise with Billy
4. Z for Zachariah
1984-02-28 · 75m
After a nuclear holocaust, only a man and a woman survive in a Welsh valley.
5. Moving on the Edge
1984-03-06 · 75m
A woman in a state of personal crisis finds it hard to communicate with her husband and family.
6. Desert of Lies
1984-03-13 · 75m
An expedition tracing the path of long-lost missionaries meets with tragedy in the Kalahari Desert.
7. Hard Feelings
1984-03-20 · 75m
A group of unemployed Oxford drop-outs living in a Brixton commune get their come-uppance by one of them.
8. Under the Hammer
1984-03-27 · 75m
Concerning the life of the artist Vincent Van Gogh
9. King
1984-04-03 · 75m
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.
10. Rainy Day Women
1984-04-10 · 75m
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
11. Dog Ends
1984-07-17 · 75m
In a future society where euthansia is common, a man signs papers to have his father put down
12. The Groundling and the Kite
1984-07-24 · 75m
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?
13. The Cry
1984-07-31 · 75m
In 1959 Ulster, a journalist witnesses the beating of a youth
14. It Could Happen to Anybody
1984-08-14 · 75m
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.
15. Only Children
1984-08-21 · 75m
A young woman's comfortable life is turned upside down when she has a baby.
16. The Amazing Miss Stella Estelle
1984-08-28 · 75m
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.
17. The Long March
1984-11-20 · 90m
A woman returns to Belfast after ten years in England and becomes involved in the Maze prison protest.
18. Punters
1984-11-27 · 75m
What is the secret of Joey and Spansky's success at the races?
19. Talk To Me
1984-12-11 · 75m
Matthew and his wife are deeply suspicious of psychoanalysis. It's not their sort of thing at all.
20. Bird Fancier
1985-01-15 · 75m
21. Brigadista
1985-02-05 · 75m
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.
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