Synopsis
Anthology series of dramatic works.
Episodes
1E1Park PeopleYoung Frank Brady falls in love with a woman he has only seen from a distance. He enlists his friend Peg to help him win the woman's love.2E2Bangelstein's BoysA rugby team's annual tour descends into chaos when Tommy and Jack have a fall out with their brother-in-law.3E3My Bonnie Jean4E4MacNeilCarpenter and widower MacNeil takes a blunt approach in making advances to lady executive Miss Saville who works in the same firm as himself. His belief in his instincts regarding women is contradicted by his daughter Mary, who knows him better than he thinks.5E5Cornelius6E6EmlynMary MacNeil drifts into a complex relationship with a Welsh barrister.7E7Tiger Trap in the StreetFed up with having his car stolen, Williams decides it's time to take the law into his own hands, but there is a price to pay.8E8An Hour of Love #1: The Bind9E9An Hour of Love #2: Anatomy of a Divorce10E10The Piano Tuner11E11Pig in a PokeAn effete television producer and his beautiful wife move into an old terraced house.In the basement is a sitting tenant they cannot move.The tenant starts to invade their life with increasing voracity, leading to him eventually beating up the young wife and then becoming her afternoon lover.12E12MachineTwo people (one rich, one poor) have failing kidneys, an expensive kidney machine would save them.14E14The Dirt on Lucy LaneMichael Vint, an embittered hack reporter from a Sunday newspaper, is sent down into the country to find a story in the love life of an aging has-been writer and his new glamorous young film star wife. The writer is annoyed about the intrusion into his private life, but his wife sees it as an opportunity.15E15Moonlight on the HighwayWriting for ITV Saturday Night Theatre (1969), Dennis Potter introduced the notion that popular music expresses the yearning of the human spirit for a better world. A troubled young man, David Peters (Ian Holm), claims, "Once dreams were possible, that's what the popular songs told us." Rejecting rock music of the day, Peters is immersed in the tunes of Thirties crooner Al Bowlly (killed during the London blitz). He collects Bowlly memorabilia, publishes the Bowlly fan-club newsletter, and finds pleasure in lip-synching Bowlly records but his obsession with Bowlly masks certain darker events in his past.52m16E16Hazel and Her New Gas Cooker17E17SteveSteve's maverick personality costs him his teaching job. He drops out of conventional society and earns a living by roguish means. Then he meets Paula, who makes him question his ideals and life.18E18Toys19E19Rogues Gallery: The Bright Eyed Body Snatcher20E20Rogues Gallery: The Wicked Stage21E21Rogues Gallery: The Timorous Rake22E22Rogues Gallery: The Fearful Image23E23Rogues Gallery: A Bed Full of Miracles24E24Rogues Gallery: The Prude Pursued25E25The Innocent Ceremony26E26The HauntingYoung Cathy asks her teacher Kate for help with her father Rolf who is still withdrawn and depressed after his wife's fatal car crash sometime ago. However, the line between fantasy and reality complicates matters.27E27A Measure of Malice28E28Better Dead29E29Every Day of the Life ManAn innocent man is wrongly picked from an identity parade after a factory robbery because he is black.30E30Salve ReginaIn the basement of a department store after the last bomb of World War Three. A bag lady, calls herself ' the queen ' and exercises complete authority over two befuddled men. That is until an astronaut (who was in space when the bomb fell) finds them.31E31TakeoverSuddenly and inexplicably Mother and Father find that their previously well behaved adolescent sons are completely unmanageable, reversing the standard family dynamics.32E32Two Hundred Miles by Train33E33The Funeral of Queen Victoria34E34The Garbler Strategy35E35Travelling Where?36E36Two Feet Off the Ground37E37Fly Away HomeA couple return from their holiday to find their house burnt down. Having no insurance, the husband has no option but to rebuild it himself with the help of local handyman Arthur. Local council bureaucracy hinders all the way.38E38The Talking Head
