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Series 14

1983 · 21 episodes

  1. 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. 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. 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. 4. Z for Zachariah

    1984-02-28 · 75m

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

  5. 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. 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. 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. 8. Under the Hammer

    1984-03-27 · 75m

    Concerning the life of the artist Vincent Van Gogh

  9. 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. 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. 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. 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. 13. The Cry

    1984-07-31 · 75m

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

  14. 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. 15. Only Children

    1984-08-21 · 75m

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

  16. 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. 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. 18. Punters

    1984-11-27 · 75m

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

  19. 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. 20. Bird Fancier

    1985-01-15 · 75m

  21. 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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