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Series 7
197619 episodes
Episode 1
The Bar Mitzvah Boy
Sep 14, 19761h 15m
A story exploring the emotions of a boy undrgoing the traditional Jewish ceremony
Episode 2
Bet Your Life
Sep 21, 19761h 15m
Like alcoholism, gambling is a disease. Ches, a compulsive gambler, is sent for medical help. A wonder drug perhaps? Or hypnosis maybe? Ches finds that his psychiatrist has other ideas.
Episode 3
Rocky Marciano Is Dead
Sep 28, 19761h 15m
Harry Marcus is a former welterweight champion mourning the loss of the past and dreaming of a return to the glory years of boxing. When a squatter moves in next door, does he have what it takes to fulfil Harry's dreams?
Episode 4
The Elephants' Graveyard
Oct 12, 19761h 15m
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.
Episode 5
Housewives' Choice
Oct 19, 19761h 15m
When Joyce appears on the door-step she looks like the perfect 'kindly, respectable lady whom Marcia needs to look after her baby. But Joyce only seems to be the average housewife.
Episode 6
Your Man from Six Counties
Oct 26, 19761h 15m
A young man from Belfast is sent south to stay with relatives in an attempt to keep him out of trouble.
Episode 7
Buffet
Nov 2, 19761h 15m
Freddie is going through an existential crisis as everyone around him seems to doubt their own identity and the entire purpose of conversation. Surrounded by inflation and extra marital affairs, his only solace is in buffet room drinking.
Episode 8
Love on a Gunboat
Jan 4, 19771h 15m
In 1956 Britain staggers through crises in Suez and Cyprus while Leslie Potter pursues and marries Monica Dobbs. Twenty years later the nation has still not recovered. Neither has Leslie.
Episode 9
The Kiss of Death
Jan 11, 19771h 15m
A young man's chances at romance are thwarted by his own shyness.
Episode 10
Our Flesh and Blood
Jan 18, 19771h 15m
How Mums and Dads feel when they have one.
Episode 11
Do As I Say
Jan 25, 19771h 15m
A quietly unhappy housewife finds a stranger in her house and is raped at knife-point by him. But when she turns to friends, neighbors and her parents-in-law for sympathy, they all seem preoccupied by other matters.
Episode 12
Spend, Spend, Spend
Mar 15, 19771h 15m
The rags-to-riches-to-rags story of a 1960s football pools winner, based on a true story
Episode 13
A Photograph
Mar 22, 19771h 15m
A couple receives a photograph in the mail of two girls sitting in front of a caravan and neither can identify the people or the place.
Episode 14
The Price of Coal: Meet The People
Mar 29, 19771h 15m
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.
Episode 15
The Price of Coal: Back To Reality
Apr 5, 19771h 15m
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.
Episode 16
Gotcha
Apr 12, 19771h 15m
A student holds his teacher hostage in the classroom on the last day of school.
Episode 17
Campion's Interview
Apr 12, 19771h 15m
A story about school.
Episode 18
A Choice of Evils
Apr 19, 19771h 15m
The story of Father Borelli who in Rome during World War II must choose between freedom and his principles
Episode 19
The Country Party
Apr 26, 19771h 15m
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.