Screenwriter Frederic Raphael's brilliant series about writer Adam Morris and his friends, from their student days at Cambridge in the 1950s to their diverse careers and disillusionments in the mid-'70s. Literate and bitingly satiric, with sharp digs at, among other targets, education, prejudice, television, Hollywood and publishing, the British dramas include an idiosyncratic breakout performance by Tom Conti in the lead role.