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This show was a British television anthology drama series. It was produced by the BBC, and it was transmitted on BBC1 between 1970 and 1984. During this period, more than three hundred different episodes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were broadcast. Each episode was between fifty minutes and one hour and forty minutes in duration. Some of these plays, for example, Rumpole of the Bailey, subsequently became a television series.

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Alison Steadman
Beverly
Nigel Hawthorne
Fulton
David Daker
Andrew Saville

Season 14 Episode Guide See All

Episode 1

Young Shoulders

80 mins

A cynical teenage boy re-evaluates his attitude to life and his parents after his sister is killed in a plane crash.

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Awards

  • 1974 - Broadcasting Press Guild Award - Best Single Play - winner
  • 1980 - Broadcasting Press Guild Award - Best Single Play - winner
  • 1982 - Broadcasting Press Guild Award - Best Single Play - winner
  • 1971 - BAFTA TV Award - Best Drama Production - winner

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