Play for Today (1970)
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Graeme MacDonald — Producer
Episodes 282
The Long Distance Piano Player
A man tries to break the world's record for nonstop piano playing
Read MoreThe Right Prospectus
A couple look for the proper school, not for their children but for themselves.
Read MoreAngels Are So Few
A man claiming to be an angel enters the household of a bored housewife and teaches the family a few lessons.
Read MoreThe Write-Off
A man is made redundant but can't bring himself to let anyone know, plunging into a web of deceit as he keeps up the charade he is still in work.
Read MoreI Can't See My Little Willie
A man has a mid-life crisis in his brother's pub where sees life as a game show
Read MoreA Distant Thunder
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Hearts and Flowers
A TV host and his architect brother attend their father's funeral
Read MoreRobin Redbreast
A woman living in a country cottage thinks that someone is trying to get her.
Read MoreThe Hallelujah Handshake
A petty thief and social misfit finagles his way into a church congregation
Read MoreAlma Mater
A civil servant working abroad revisits his old school
Read MoreCircle Line
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Hell's Angel
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Billy's Last Stand
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The Rainbirds
A man who attempted suicide by jumping out a window is saved only to live in a coma, in which he has fantasies about his relatives and nightmare creatures.
Read MoreThe Foxtrot
An odd menage a trois results when a woman and her lover are visited by her long-lost husband
Read MoreWhen the Bough Breaks
When an injured baby arrives at the hospital, a social worker looks for the parents
Read MoreThe Rank and File
The story of the Pilkington glass workers strike of 1970
Read MoreThe Man in the Sidecar
A succesful novelist Edith lives with her husband and his friend, but she decides to ask the friend to leave.
Read MoreEverybody Say Cheese
The story of a disintegrating marriage told through family photos
Read MoreThe Cellar and the Almond Tree
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Edna, the Inebriate Woman
Edna, the Inebriate Woman is a British television drama written by Jeremy Sandford which was transmitted by the BBC as part of the Play for Today series on 21 October 1971. Directed by Ted Kotcheff, Irene Shubik produced it.
The play deals with an elderly woman, Edna, who wanders through life in an alcoholic haze without a home, a job or any money. A rambling, pathetic yet defiant woman, Edna sleeps rough and begs for food and shelter and the drama follows her progress as she moves from hostel to hostel, going to a psychiatric ward and then prison along the way. Jeremy Sandford, who had previously written Cathy Come Home, researched the play by living rough himself for two weeks.
A great deal of the dialogue and the incidents in the play come from the book, 'Down and Out in Britain' published by Jeremy Sandford in 1971; although the majority of the speakers in the book are male, Jeremy Sandford puts much of their speech into the mouth of the female character.
The film features the only notable acting role of British actor Vivian MacKerrell, the real-life inspiration for the character Withnail in Withnail and I.
At the 1972 British Academy Television Awards, the play won the Best Drama Production category, with Patricia Hayes receiving the award for Best Actress.
Read MoreEvelyn
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O Fat White Woman
The wife of a headmaster discovers that he has been physically abusing his students
Read MoreThank You Very Much
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Michael Regan
A man gets revenge on a pub owner
Read MoreSkin Deep
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Pal
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The Pigeon Fancier
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Still Waters
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Stocker's Copper
In Cornwall, just before World War I, a striking miner befriends a cop
Read MoreThe House on Highbury Hill
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In the Beautiful Caribbean
A story about unemployment and the Black Movement in Jamaica
Read MoreAckerman, Dougall and Harker
A salesman learns a few lessons from the locals when he goes to Yorkshire for a business course
Read MoreThe Villa Maroc
A couple and their daughter take a trip to Africa
Read MoreCows
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A Time to Keep
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The Fishing Party
The adventures of three Derbyshire miners going fishing
Read MoreThe Reporters
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A Life Is for Ever
The story of a man serving a 30-year prison sentence for killing a cop
Read MoreCarson Country
A story about the origin of the Stormont state
Read MoreMan Friday
The story of Robinson Crusoe from Man Friday's viewpoint
Read MoreTriple Exposure
A hippie breaks into the house of a middle-aged couple and forms a relationship with them
Read MoreBetter than the Movies
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The General's Day
An elderly general woos a shy school teacher.
Read MoreThe Bankrupt
A washed-up executive is on the verge of bankruptcy.
Read MoreJust Your Luck
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The Bouncing Boy
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Shakespeare or Bust
The adventures of three Derbyshire miners going to Stratford-upon-Avon on a barge
Read MoreLand of Green Ginger
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Kisses at Fifty
A long-married husband leaves his family for a barmaid.
Read MoreHighway Robbery
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Song at Twilight
The story of a defiant football manager in terminal decline
Read MoreOnly Make Believe
As a playwright dictates notes about his newest play to his secretary, scenes from the play are acted out.
Read MoreFor Sylvia or The Air Show
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The Operation
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Access to the Children
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Hard Labour
The trials of an overworked and underappreciated housecleaner
Read MoreMan Above Men
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Speech Day
Three underachievers have fun at a school speech day
Read MoreSteps Back
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Three's One
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Edward G.--Like the Film Star
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Blooming Youth
The problems of four people sharing an apartment
Read MoreThe Stretch
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Making the Play
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Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
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Her Majesty's Pleasure
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Jack Point
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The Emergency Channel
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Mummy and Daddy
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Private Practice
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Shutdown
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Baby Blues
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Jingle Bells
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The Lonely Man's Lover
A young farmgirl begins a romance with an artist
Read MoreAll Good Men
An elderly politician looks back over his career while being interviewed by a TV producer.
Read MoreHot Fat
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Easy Go
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Headmaster
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Penda's Fen
Penda's Fen is a British television play which was written by David Rudkin and directed by Alan Clarke. Commissioned by BBC producer David Rose, it was transmitted as part of the corporation's Play for Today series.
Read MorePigeon--Hawk or Dove?
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Three for the Fancy
Further adventures of three Derbyshire miners
Read MoreThe Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil
The exploitation of the Scottish land and its people from the 18th century to the present
Read MoreSchmoedipus
A young man persuades a woman that he is her son.
Read MoreThe Childhood Friend
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A Follower for Emily
The friendship of two residents of a retirement home ends up in marriage
Read MoreLeeds--United!
About a strike in a textile factory, based on a true story
Read MoreBack of Beyond
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The Bevellers
The first (and last) day at work of a young apprentice in a bevelling shop at a Glasgow glass factory
Read MoreTaking Leave
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Fugitive
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Eleanor
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The After Dinner Game
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The Death of a Young, Young Man
Three young students suspended from school face various problems.
Read MoreSunset Across the Bay
A elderly couple become disillusioned when they retire to their favorite holiday resort.
Read MoreFunny Farm
One day in the life a nurse in a mental hospital
Read MoreGoodbye
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Just Another Saturday
A young man participating in the Orange Parade in Glasgow becomes disillusioned with the pageant when he discovers its unpleasant and violent history and witnesses the participants' attacks on Catholics.
Read MoreA Child of Hope
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The Saturday Party
When a stockbroker loses his job, he decides to throw a party.
Read MoreWednesday Love
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The Dandelion Clock
In Belfast, a girl awaits the return of her missing father.
Read MoreBrassneck
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The Floater
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By Common Consent
Political fantasy about a fascist regime
Read MorePlaintiffs and Defendants
A married barrister's life begins to unravel when it seems that his high-strung mistress may reveal all.
Read MoreTwo Sundays
An author tells an old school chum that he is about to publish a novel revealing their old relationship.
Read MoreMoss
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84 Charing Cross Road
An American woman corresponds with a London bookshop owner over a period of 20 years
Read MoreKeep an Eye on Albert
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Children of the Sun
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After the Solo
A boy enjoys success in the choir until his voice breaks at puberty.
Read MoreThrough the Night
A woman goes into hospital to receive treatment for breast cancer.
Read MoreA Passage to England
A group of Asians plans to sneak into England using a fishing boat
Read MoreRumpole of the Bailey
Rumpole defends a young West Indian boy accused of attempted murder.
Read MoreThe Other Woman
An aggressive lesbian disrupts the lives of those around her.
Read MoreNuts in May
Smug married couple Keith and Candice Marie “keen exponents of their belief in organic health food, exercise and the environment” are on a camping holiday, where they find that it is not always easy to be tolerant of others when they don't share the same enthusiasms.
Read MoreDoran's Box
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Packman's Barn
John Barrett returns to his remote hill farm after 20 years to deal with some unfinished business, and finds himself once again in conflict with the locals.
Read MoreA Story to Frighten the Children
A woman encounters trouble when she arrives home late at night, but her neighbors on a nearby estate claim to have seen and heard nothing.
Read MoreThe Happy Hunting Ground
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The Jumping Bean Bag
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Clay, Smeddum and Greenden
A play based on three short stories about the Scottish people and their relationship with the land: ""Clay"" concerns a farmer's obsession with his fields to the exclusion of his dying wife; ""Smeddum"" is about an indomitable woman and her large family; and ""Greenden"" tells the story of an unhappy woman from the city living with her indifferent husband in the country.
Read MoreLove Letters on Blue Paper
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Willie Rough
A story depicting life in a shipyard
Read MoreTiptoe through the Tulips
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The Peddler
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Early Struggles
A story about a father's attempts at single parenthood
Read MoreDouble Dare
A playwright spends an afternoon in a hotel room with an actress who takes on the role of call girl for research purposes.
Read MoreThe House of Bernarda Alba
The eldest daughter of a domineering, overprotective mother becomes engaged to an unprincipled young man who has money.
Read MoreThe Bar Mitzvah Boy
A story exploring the emotions of a boy undrgoing the traditional Jewish ceremony
Read MoreBet Your Life
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Rocky Marciano Is Dead
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The Elephants' Graveyard
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.
Read MoreHousewives' Choice
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Your Man from Six Counties
A young man from Belfast is sent south to stay with relatives in an attempt to keep him out of trouble.
Read MoreBuffet
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Love on a Gunboat
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The Kiss of Death
A young man's chances at romance are thwarted by his own shyness.
Read MoreOur Flesh and Blood
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Do As I Say
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Spend, Spend, Spend
The rags-to-riches-to-rags story of a 1960s football pools winner, based on a true story
Read MoreA Photograph
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The Price of Coal (1)
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.
Read MoreThe Price of Coal (2)
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.
Read MoreCampion's Interview
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A Choice of Evils
The story of Father Borelli who in Rome during World War II must choose between freedom and his principles
Read MoreThe Country Party
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.
Read MoreStronger than the Sun
A worker discovers a radioactive leak at the nuclear power plant where she works and tries to make it public knowledge.
Read MoreCome the Revolution
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Abigail's Party
Comedy of manners focusing on the bourgeois affectation and sexual frustration of a young married couple. Abigail's mother Sue is invited to take refuge from her teenage daughter's party with a neighbouring couple, Beverly and Laurence. They have also invited Angela and Tony, new arrivals in the street. Beverly plies her guests with alcohol as Sue becomes increasingly withdrawn and embarrassed by the pretentious goings-on. Slowly, marital tensions emerge and the evening is breaking up in disarray.
Read MoreOy Vay Maria
The story of the romance between a Jewish boy and an Irish Catholic girl
Read MoreNipper
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One Day at a Time
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The Mayor's Charity
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Catchpenny Twist
Three schoolteachers in Belfast give up teaching to become singers/songwriters.
Read MoreCharades
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The Thin End of the Wedge
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Scully's New Year's Eve
A Liverpool teenager has a hectic night out on New Year's Eve.
Read MoreLicking Hitler
During World War II, a young woman joins the propaganda department and makes radio broadcasts to Germany from a British country house.
Read MoreThe Spongers
The story of a single mother of four living on welfare
Read MoreOur Day Out
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The After-Dinner Joke
The story of a well-meaning charity worker
Read MoreThe Legion Hall Bombing
The story of the trial of Willie Gallagher, convicted of bombing the Strabane British Legion Hall in 1976.
Read MoreVictims of Apartheid
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A Touch of the Tiny Hacketts
A young man is declared a hero when he catches a burglar until it's discovered that the burglar is a dwarf.
Read MoreDinner at the Sporting Club
A story about young boxers whose fighting provides entertainment for diners at a sporting club
Read MoreDonal and Sally
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Butterflies Don't Count
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Soldiers Talking Cleanly
A freelance TV presenter has been hired by the BBC to film a documentary about the British army stationed in Germany. Unfortunately the budget is so low he is only allowed to film soldiers talking, and all bad language must be censored.
Read MoreOne Bummer Newsday
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The Out of Town Boys
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Vampires
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The Chief Mourner
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Waterloo Sunset
A young man and an old woman try to fit in when their neighborhood goes West Indian
Read MoreBlue Remembered Hills
The play activities of seven children living in the countryside during the summer of 1943 end in tragedy; the children were played by adults in childrens clothing.
The title is taken from A.E. Housman's 1896 poem: "Into my heart an air that kills; From yon far country blows; What are those blue remembered hills..." It's 1943 on a summer's afternoon and 7 children play in the fields & woods of old England. The children's roles are all played by adults to act as "A magnifying glass to show what it's like to be a child."
"When we dream of childhood," said Dennis Potter, "we take our present selves with us. It is not the adult world writ small; childhood is the adult world writ large." Since Potter viewed childhood as "adult society without all the conventions and the polite forms which overlay it," he repeated the device he had introduced 14 years earlier (in "Stand Up, Nigel Barton"); children's roles were cast with adult actors in this naturalistic memory drama of a "golden day" that turns to tragedy. On a sunny, summer afternoon in bucolic England of 1943, seven West Country children (two girls, five boys) play in the Forest of Dean. Their games and spontaneous actions (continuous and in real time) reflect their awareness of WWII, but no adults are present to intrude. As the group moves through the woods and back to the grassy hills, their words and actions illustrate how "childhood is not transparent with innocence." When the two girls push a pram into a barn to play house, the casting concept is heightened, doubling back on itself in a remarkable moment: adults are suddenly seen to be acting as children who are pretending to be adults, and lines from Housman echo across the years: "That is the land of lost content/I see it shining plain/The happy highways where I went/And cannot come again."
Read MoreThe Last Window Cleaner
The Irish troubles as seen by residents of a boarding house called ""The Crumlin View""
Read MorePloughman's Share
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Degree of Uncertainty
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Light
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Coming Out
A closeted homosexual writer is content to lead a double life
Read MoreDon't Be Silly
A young wife tries to cope with her abusive husband.
Read MoreLong Distance Information
A fanatical Elvis Presley fan is working as a disc jockey when his idol dies
Read MoreCries from a Watchtower
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Even Solomon
Stephen Piper is a quiet young man. A virgin, he shows no interest in sex, and is cruelly scorned by an aggressive female neighbour when he rebuffs her advances. He lives with his mother, an overbearing woman who mocks him for being wet. But Stephen has a secret. An accurate and heartfelt depiction of the challenges he faces and a fascinating glimpse at the gender politics of the day.
Read MoreJust a Boy's Game
In Glasgow, a young man's sole aim is to be as tough as his dying grandfather once was
Read MoreA Hole in Babylon
Exploration of the events leading up to 1975 Spaghetti House siege in London and the motivation of its three protagonists, T-Bone Wilson, Archie Pool, and Trevor Thomas.
Read MoreThe Slab-Boys
The story of a young man who works in a carpet factory
Read MoreKatie
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The Network
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Chance of a Lifetime
A young man quits school and joins the army.
Read MoreKeep Smiling
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Dreams of Leaving
A journalist moves to London and gets caught up in the big city and his romance with a rich debutante.
Read MoreThicker Than Water
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Murder Rap
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Instant Enlightenment Including VAT
Weekend enlightenment seminars serve as a form of brainwashing.
Read MoreNo Defence
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That Crazy Woman
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A Gift from Nessus
The marital and career problems of a middle-aged, middle-class man in Glasgow in the 1960s
Read MoreKate, the Good Neighbour
A compassionate elderly woman comes to the realization that she can no longer care for herself or others.
Read MoreShadows on Our Skin
The problems of an 11-year-old boy living in the Catholic part of Londonderry
Read MoreLadies
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The Vanishing Army
A story about the highs and lows of peacetime army life
Read MoreNot for the Likes of Us
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The Executioner
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The Imitation Game
During World War II, an idealistic young woman joins the Army Transport Service
Read MoreA Walk in the Forest
A writer gets involved with a Soviet dissident
Read MorePasmore
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C2H5OH
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The Adventures of Frank: Everybody's Fiddling Something
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The Adventures of Frank: Seeds of Ice
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Minor Complications
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Number on End
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Jude
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The Flipside of Dominick Hide
Dominick Hide, a time traveller from London in the year 2130, is studying the city's transport system of 1980. Breaking the rules, he lands his craft to seek out his great-grandfather. Compared to his anaesthetised home, 80s London is filthy and polluted...and yet...it exudes an excitement that soon draws him in.
Read MoreName for the Day
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Beyond the Pale
A vacation at a seaside hotel in Ireland changes the lives of four friends.
Read MoreThe Muscle Market
The problems of an owner of a building contractor company in Liverpool
Read MoreA Brush with Mr. Porter on the Road to El Dorado
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Dear Brutus
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The Cause
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Beloved Enemy
The head of a multinational corporation wants to do business with the Soviets
Read MoreThe Kamikaze Ground Staff Reunion Dinner
A group of men hold a reunion dinner in Tokyo
Read MoreThe Union
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Sorry
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The Garland
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The Sin Bin
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Before Water Lillies
An evening with the Parent-Teacher Association gets out of hand.
Read MoreBavarian Night
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The Good Time Girls
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Baby Talk
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A Turn for the Worse
Soldiers are subjected to a brutal and sadistic kind of psychological training exercise
Read MorePsy-Warriors
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London Is Drowning
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A Room for the Winter
James, an expatriate South African anti-apartheid fighter, deals with his nightmares and his complaining landlady in a run-down area of London, while dreaming of his lover Stephen, left behind.
Read MoreNo Visible Scar
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Iris in the Traffic, Ruby in the Rain
In Belfast, Ruby has a cold and is caught in the rain while Iris is looking for work and gets caught in traffic
Read MoreProtest
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United Kingdom
Two men on a local council fight the system when forced with massive spending cuts.
Read MoreThe Factory
A manager, a foreman, and two workers are all that remains of a factory yet labor relations stay the same
Read MoreEngland's Green and Pleasant Land
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A Cotswold Death
A police inspector investigates the murder of an Arab sheik who had become a village's Lord of the Manor.
Read MoreUnder the Skin
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Commitments
Politics and relationships during the last years of the Heath government
Read MoreLife After Death
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The Silly Season
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Too Late to Talk to Billy
A family in Belfast deals with life after the death of the mother from cancer
Read MoreWillie's Last Stand
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Tishoo
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Home Sweet Home
Home Sweet Home is a 1982 television film devised and directed by Mike Leigh, for BBC TV, 'about postmen, parenthood, social workers and sex.' It was Leigh's second collaboration with Play for Today producer Louis Marks, and cinematographer Remi Adefarasin, and with composer Carl Davis - the music score featured a quartet of basses -. It stars Timothy Spall, here working with Leigh for the first time, Eric Richard, Tim Barker, Kay Stonham, Su Elliot, Frances Barber, Sheila Kelley, and Lorraine Brunning. It was first broadcast on 16 March 1982. The film was shot on location in Hitchin, Hertfordshire. 90 minutes.
Read MoreA Sudden Wrench
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Eve Set the Balls of Corruption Going
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Whistling Wally
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Soft Targets
A story about a homesick Russian journalist in London at the end of the cold war
Read MoreThree Minute Heroes
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The Remainder Man
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Intensive Care
A man holds a lonely vigil at the bedside of his dying father.
Read MoreA Mother Like Him
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John David
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Aliens
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Another Flip for Dominick
Two years after his journey to the past, Dominick Hide has been promoted to instructor and is no longer a time traveller. Then one of his pupils, Pyrus Bonnington, goes missing during a visit to 1982 London. Hide must track him down and prevent Pyrus damaging the past, but will the temptation to re-visit his own history be too strong to resist?
Read MoreLast Love
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Gates of Gold
In 1959 County Antrim, two traveling evangelists help a mentally retarded teenager
Read MoreWayne and Albert
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Atlantis
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The Last Term
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Reluctant Chickens
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Shall I Be Mother?
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The Falklands Factor
The 18th century writer Samuel Johnson writes a political pamphlet protesting the British going to war with Spain after the 1790 invasion of the Falkland Islands.
Read MoreA Matter of Choice for Billy
When his father leaves Belfast to seek work in England, a young man looks after his sister
Read MoreFloating Off
A businessman tries to keep his son from finding out about an unconventional deal he and his secretary are making with a merchant bank.
Read MoreStan's Last Game
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.
Read MoreYoung Shoulders
Cynical teenager Andrew Groves re-evaluates his attitude to life and his parents after his sister dies in a plane crash.
Read MoreA Coming to Terms for Billy
When his father comes home to Belfast after more than 2 years in England, conflicts arise with Billy
Read MoreZ for Zachariah
After a nuclear holocaust, only a man and a woman survive in a Welsh valley.
Read MoreMoving on the Edge
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Desert of Lies
An expedition tracing the path of long-lost missionaries meets with tragedy in the Kalahari Desert.
Read MoreHard Feelings
A group of unemployed Oxford drop-outs living in a Brixton commune get their come-uppance by one of them.
Read MoreUnder the Hammer
Concerning the life of the artist Vincent Van Gogh
Read MoreRainy Day Women
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
Read MoreThe Groundling and the Kite
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It Could Happen to Anybody
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Only Children
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The Amazing Miss Stella Estelle
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Brimstone and Treacle
The Bates sadly care for their severely disabled daughter Pattie. Martin arrives at their door claiming to be her college friend. He charms them into accepting him as a lodger and carer for Pattie. But Martin is not all he seems.
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