Peter boards a train to attend an important business meeting across Europe. His trip is complicated by two women also assigned to his compartment. One is an independent American whom Peter finds attractive. The other is Frau Messner, an extremely particular and demanding older European woman. Between the two of them, they try different aspects of Peter's patience...
Guest Stars:
Michael Kitchen, Peggy Ashcroft, Wendy Raebeck, Michael Sheard, Ingo Mogendorf
Using a remarkable blend of dramatic techniques, this study of three English poets – also three courageous soldiers – gradually develops towards their historical and crucial meeting.
Guest Stars:
David Sibley, Charles Dance, Michael Troughton, Aubrey Morris, Martin Friend
Lou Parker feels very strongly that she and her husband, Ray, are different from the Farrells and the Ackerleys. With them it's all television. But she and Ray have the local library and The Observer. They keep abreast. They're different.
Guest Stars:
Helen Parker, Edward Peel, Al Matthews, Trevor Thomas, Sheila Manahan
Guest Stars:
Gillian Blake, Judy Campbell, Desmond Llewelyn, Stephen Moore, Felicity Dean
Young working class couple Dick and Mandy move into a council house in Canterbury, and find Mr. Butcher, one of their former teachers, living next door. Mandy's unmarried sister, Gloria, is constantly dropping in, and will not take any hints that the couple would prefer to be left alone, until her presence finally goads them to action.
Guest Stars:
Phil Davis, Lesley Manville, Brenda Blethyn, Janine Duvitski, Lindsay Duncan
Guest Stars:
Eleanor Bron, Mandy McIlwaine, Liam Neeson, Edward Byrne, Declan McBrien
Guest Stars:
Veronica Roberts, Dinah Stabb, Caroline Hutchison, Gerard Murphy, Margaret Ford
At a Nottingham advertising agency, young graphic designer Graham is recruited as a temporary replacement for the iconic Henry. The agency are desperate to be part of the Swinging Sixties but not without Henry. Can Graham replace him?
Guest Stars:
Simon Cowell-Parker, Chris Jagger, Phillip Sully, Bill Nighy, Barbara Flynn
John Fothergill, aesthete and scholar, becomes the proprietor of the Spread Eagle, in Thame, Oxfordshire, with the intent of turning it into the most celebrated Inn in England, catering to the brightest lights in London's literati.
Guest Stars:
Robert Hardy, Patrick Newell, John Bird, David de Keyser, Jeremy Sinden
A darts tournament is put in peril when the players' wives stage a sit-in in the pub.
Guest Stars:
Ashley Barker, Howard Crossley, Alan Starkey, Paul Butterworth
A day in the life of Mrs Radcliffe, who believes that the advice she so freely gives is done only out of kindness.
Guest Stars:
Elizabeth Spriggs, Leon Sinden, Annie Leon, Kathryn Pogson, Rosalind Knight
In prison the night before his execution, Republican preacher Hugh Peter prepares to be hanged, drawn and quartered for treason.
Guest Stars:
Peter Vaughan, Michael Pennington, Sylvia Kay, Richard Bebb, John Gillett
An Irishwoman married to a German in pre-WWI Liverpool prepares to meet her brother-in-law, a young man named Adolf Hitler.
Guest Stars:
Siobhán McKenna, Maurice Roëves, Denis Lill, Julian Glover, Alan Chuntz
In 1920, a trio of British soldiers have to guard an unexploded mine that has washed up on a beach.
Guest Stars:
Sam Kelly, Stephen Bill, Mark Aspinall, Julie Walters, Charles McKeown
In 1978, Changes Magazine journalist Neville Morris writes an essay about Bob Dylan called 'A Jewish Massiah'. Dylan's publicist Elle Smith reaches out that The Bard wants to meet him at Earl's Court.
Guest Stars:
Philip Sayer, Mary Maddox, Michael Angelis, Andrew Schofield, Steve Barratt
A mother, waiting for a visit through a hospital day, reflects on her life. Dreams haunt her, fantasies seduce her, memories crowd in on her, distorting the drab reality of her day to day existence. Must her daughter follow in her footsteps? How can she find a way to guide her towards a brighter future?
Guest Stars:
Anna Calder-Marshall, Hilary Mason, Amanda Wissler, Terry Molloy, Hywel Williams-Ellis
VE Night, 1945: In a Yorkshire pub, not everyone is in a mood to celebrate. Lorna Thorpe's 'All-Star' dance band is down two members, the beer has run out, and some influential friends on the city council have booked flights to Buenos Aires.
Guest Stars:
John Savident, David Bradley, Maggie Steed, Lynn Farleigh, Fred Pearson
An exploration of the personal and professional conflicts of a string quartet who have been playing together for many years, but are on the point of disintegrating.
Guest Stars:
Frederick Jaeger, Tim Charrington, Clive Swift, Hugh Dickson, Jerome Willis
The true story of Unity Mitford who, in the 1930s, moves to Germany, where she befriends Adolf Hitler.
Guest Stars:
Lesley-Anne Down, Ernst Jacobi, Ingrid Pitt, Clare Higgins, Sarah Berger
Guest Stars:
Wendy Morgan, David Sibley, John Moulder-Brown, Shelagh McLeod, Graham Seed
After nineteen years of marriage, three children, and a brief but passionate affair followed by a quick divorce, Elizabeth Aidallbery has to go for an emergency operation. From her bed, she has the leisure to take stock of her life, and frankly, it doesn't look very edifying: there's the 17-year-old daughter who's run off to a commune with her boyfriend; an old hopeless suitor who continues to press his claims; and of course the memory of the havoc caused by the affair. No doubt she could put her life back in order. But need that involve all those people who cause her so much heartache?
Guest Stars:
Doreen Mantle, Barbara Ferris, David Neal, Joss Ackland, Maggie Wilkinson
After nineteen years of marriage, three children, and a brief but passionate affair followed by a quick divorce, Elizabeth Aidallbery has to go for an emergency operation. From her bed, she has the leisure to take stock of her life, and frankly, it doesn't look very edifying: there's the 17-year-old daughter who's run off to a commune with her boyfriend; an old hopeless suitor who continues to press his claims; and of course the memory of the havoc caused by the affair. No doubt she could put her life back in order. But need that involve all those people who cause her so much heartache?
Guest Stars:
Doreen Mantle, Barbara Ferris, David Neal, Maggie Wilkinson, Brenda Fricker
After nineteen years of marriage, three children, and a brief but passionate affair followed by a quick divorce, Elizabeth Aidallbery has to go for an emergency operation. From her bed, she has the leisure to take stock of her life, and frankly, it doesn't look very edifying: there's the 17-year-old daughter who's run off to a commune with her boyfriend; an old hopeless suitor who continues to press his claims; and of course the memory of the havoc caused by the affair. No doubt she could put her life back in order. But need that involve all those people who cause her so much heartache?
Guest Stars:
Barbara Ferris, David Neal, Maggie Wilkinson, Simon Coady, Ralph G. Morse
Albie Warren and his girlfriend Carla are second on the bill of variety artists and musicians performing to half empty venues. Albie impersonates wartime comic Rob Wilton to people who don't know him. Will he take the chance to top the bill?
Guest Stars:
Kenneth MacDonald, Dee Anderson, David Hatton, Arthur Nightingale, Stephen Novak
Guest Stars:
Barry Foster, Zena Walker, T. P. McKenna, Gillian Raine, Donald Gee
Two men sharing a hospital room after their diagnoses of terminal cancer struggle with fear, physical pain, the difficulties of being in hospital, family members unable to cope, loneliness, and their unusual friendship.
Guest Stars:
Norman Wisdom, Judi Dench, Fulton Mackay, Stephanie Cole, Peter Attard

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