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Series 14

October 24, 198321 Episodes

EP 1

Stan's Last Game

October 25, 19831h 15m • ★ 0.0

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.

EP 2

Young Shoulders

February 14, 19841h 15m • ★ 0.0

Cynical teenager Andrew Groves re-evaluates his attitude to life and his parents after his sister dies in a plane crash.

EP 3

A Coming to Terms for Billy

February 21, 19841h 15m • ★ 0.0

When his father comes home to Belfast after more than 2 years in England, conflicts arise with Billy

EP 4

Z for Zachariah

February 28, 19841h 15m • ★ 0.0

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

EP 5

Moving on the Edge

March 6, 19841h 15m • ★ 0.0

A woman in a state of personal crisis finds it hard to communicate with her husband and family.

EP 6

Desert of Lies

March 13, 19841h 15m • ★ 0.0

An expedition tracing the path of long-lost missionaries meets with tragedy in the Kalahari Desert.

EP 7

Hard Feelings

March 20, 19841h 15m • ★ 0.0

A group of unemployed Oxford drop-outs living in a Brixton commune get their come-uppance by one of them.

EP 8

Under the Hammer

March 27, 19841h 15m • ★ 0.0

Concerning the life of the artist Vincent Van Gogh

EP 9

King

April 3, 19841h 15m • ★ 0.0

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.

EP 10

Rainy Day Women

April 10, 19841h 15m • ★ 0.0

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

EP 11

Dog Ends

July 17, 19841h 15m • ★ 7.0

In a future society where euthansia is common, a man signs papers to have his father put down

EP 12

The Groundling and the Kite

July 24, 19841h 15m • ★ 0.0

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?

EP 13

The Cry

July 31, 19841h 15m • ★ 0.0

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

EP 14

It Could Happen to Anybody

August 14, 19841h 15m • ★ 0.0

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.

EP 15

Only Children

August 21, 19841h 15m • ★ 0.0

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

EP 16

The Amazing Miss Stella Estelle

August 28, 19841h 15m • ★ 0.0

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.

EP 17

The Long March

November 20, 19841h 30m • ★ 0.0

A woman returns to Belfast after ten years in England and becomes involved in the Maze prison protest.

EP 18

Punters

November 27, 19841h 15m • ★ 0.0

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

EP 19

Talk To Me

December 11, 19841h 15m • ★ 0.0

Matthew and his wife are deeply suspicious of psychoanalysis. It's not their sort of thing at all.

EP 20

Bird Fancier

January 15, 19851h 15m • ★ 0.0

EP 21

Brigadista

February 5, 19851h 15m • ★ 0.0

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.