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Series 14
198321 episodes
Episode 1
Stan's Last Game
Oct 25, 19831h 15m
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.
Episode 2
Young Shoulders
Feb 14, 19841h 15m
Cynical teenager Andrew Groves re-evaluates his attitude to life and his parents after his sister dies in a plane crash.
Episode 3
A Coming to Terms for Billy
Feb 21, 19841h 15m
When his father comes home to Belfast after more than 2 years in England, conflicts arise with Billy
Episode 4
Z for Zachariah
Feb 28, 19841h 15m
After a nuclear holocaust, only a man and a woman survive in a Welsh valley.
Episode 5
Moving on the Edge
Mar 6, 19841h 15m
A woman in a state of personal crisis finds it hard to communicate with her husband and family.
Episode 6
Desert of Lies
Mar 13, 19841h 15m
An expedition tracing the path of long-lost missionaries meets with tragedy in the Kalahari Desert.
Episode 7
Hard Feelings
Mar 20, 19841h 15m
A group of unemployed Oxford drop-outs living in a Brixton commune get their come-uppance by one of them.
Episode 8
Under the Hammer
Mar 27, 19841h 15m
Concerning the life of the artist Vincent Van Gogh
Episode 9
King
Apr 3, 19841h 15m
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.
Episode 10
Rainy Day Women
Apr 10, 19841h 15m
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
Episode 11
Dog Ends
Jul 17, 19841h 15m
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In a future society where euthansia is common, a man signs papers to have his father put down
Episode 12
The Groundling and the Kite
Jul 24, 19841h 15m
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?
Episode 13
The Cry
Jul 31, 19841h 15m
In 1959 Ulster, a journalist witnesses the beating of a youth
Episode 14
It Could Happen to Anybody
Aug 14, 19841h 15m
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.
Episode 15
Only Children
Aug 21, 19841h 15m
A young woman's comfortable life is turned upside down when she has a baby.
Episode 16
The Amazing Miss Stella Estelle
Aug 28, 19841h 15m
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.
Episode 17
The Long March
Nov 20, 19841h 30m
A woman returns to Belfast after ten years in England and becomes involved in the Maze prison protest.
Episode 18
Punters
Nov 27, 19841h 15m
What is the secret of Joey and Spansky's success at the races?
Episode 19
Talk To Me
Dec 11, 19841h 15m
Matthew and his wife are deeply suspicious of psychoanalysis. It's not their sort of thing at all.
Episode 20
Bird Fancier
Jan 15, 19851h 15m
Episode 21
Brigadista
Feb 5, 19851h 15m
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.