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18 Episodes 1976 - 1977
Episode 1
Mon, Mar 7, 197775 mins
On the eve of his Bar Mitzvah, young Elliot finds that all the grown men in his life are somewhat wanting.
Episode 2
78 mins
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
69 mins
Harry Marcus (Ron Moody) 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
48 mins
Bunny has told his wife he is working as a postman, but in fact is wandering the hills all day, wondering why he doesn't want to work. He meets Jody, an older man who has told his wife he's working in a factory, but is in fact doing the same thing. The two men spend a day of friendship together, but what does the future offer them? And tonight is supposed to be pay night...
Episode 5
64 mins
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
95 mins
When his father becomes the latest bomb victim Jimmy leaves Belfast and goes to begin a new life on his uncle's farm in the remote west of Ireland. But even here there are links with the past and Jimmy's new start is soon under threat.
Episode 7
79 mins
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
79 mins
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
72 mins
Trevor is an extremely shy undertaker's assistant. He always tags along with his good friend Ronnie, when he goes to the pub with his girlfriend Sandra. Sandra introduces Trevor to her more forward friend Linda. Linda has a difficult time getting Trevor to go out with her, but she finally gets him to go to a disco; he won't dance, so Linda dances with Ronnie.
Episode 10
80 mins
How Mums and Dads feel when they have one.
Episode 11
70 mins
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
85 mins
Autobiographical tale about Viv Nicholson who had a large Football Pools win in the early 1960s, and the ultimately destructive effect it had on her and her family.
Episode 13
72 mins
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
77 mins
The workers of Milton Colliery prepare for a royal visit by Prince Charles.
Episode 15
91 mins
A month after the royal visit, the workers at Milton Colliery are brought crashing back down to earth by an underground explosion.
Episode 16
89 mins
Two stories about school. Gotcha by Barrie Keeffe and Campion's Interview by Brian Clark.
Episode 17
83 mins
Cardinal Volponi tries to save his old friend, a priest turned militant communist, from being executed by the Nazis alongside 334 other hostages but fails to reason with either the Vatican, the Nazis or the priest himself.
Episode 18
81 mins
In this follow-up to The Saturday Party (1975), Richard Elkinson has split up with his wife and is now running a country restaurant. When his daughter arranges a surprise birthday party to try and bring them back together, old issues remain.