A story exploring the emotions of a boy undrgoing the traditional Jewish ceremony
Guest Stars:
Maria Charles, Harry Landis
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.
Guest Stars:
Reginald Stewart, Richard Wilson
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?
Guest Stars:
Ron Moody, Stephen Greif, Jeffery Kissoon, Lesley Dunlop, Phil Daniels
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.
Guest Stars:
Billy Connolly, Jon Morrison
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.
Guest Stars:
Frances de la Tour, Sharon Duce, Bernard Hill
A young man from Belfast is sent south to stay with relatives in an attempt to keep him out of trouble.
Guest Stars:
Brenda Fricker
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.
Guest Stars:
Amanda Barrie, Tony Britton, Nigel Hawthorne, Clive Swift, Phyllida Law
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.
Guest Stars:
John Salthouse, Stephen Moore, Barbara Flynn, Gerard Ryder, Josephine Welcome
A young man's chances at romance are thwarted by his own shyness.
How Mums and Dads feel when they have one.
Guest Stars:
Bernard Hill, Alison Steadman, Richard Briers, Jamila Massey
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.
Guest Stars:
Angela Down, Kate Nelligan, Gerry Cowper, Constance Chapman
The rags-to-riches-to-rags story of a 1960s football pools winner, based on a true story
Guest Stars:
John Duttine, Liz Smith
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.
Guest Stars:
Stephanie Turner, Graham Ashley, John Stride, Freda Bamford
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.
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.
A student holds his teacher hostage in the classroom on the last day of school.
Guest Stars:
Phil Davis
A story about school.
Guest Stars:
Trevor Peacock, Julian Curry
The story of Father Borelli who in Rome during World War II must choose between freedom and his principles
Guest Stars:
David Burke, Trevor Peacock, Tim Pigott-Smith
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.
Guest Stars:
Peter Barkworth, Sheila Gish, Jan Waters, Judi Bowker, Robin Davies

18 Episodes