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13 Episodes 1991 - 1992
Episode 1
90 mins
The Grass Arena is a biopic based on the autobiography of John Healy. Raised in an ultra religious family, with an abusive father, young Johnny soon learns that he has to learn to defend himself. He takes up boxing, but soon falls victim to alcoholism. His boxing career over, John takes to the Grass Arena (the park) where he lives with other alcoholics. Things only get worse, until he learns about the game of chess.
Episode 2
100 mins
The friendship of a young boy and an old Polish emigre as they struggle to re-create 'the smallest show on earth' - a flea circus.
Episode 3
The true story of mysterious deaf-mute boy Joseph in France just before the revolution.
Episode 4
A young gay man (Brian Cox) comes out to his middle-class parents, which has repercussions for his father who has long since been trying to repress his own sexuality.
Episode 5
A wheeler-dealer (John Malkovich) and his girlfriend (Andie MacDowell) are stranded penniless and hotel-bound in London, with only the girl's Henry Moore statuette as collateral. She suggests they fake a burglary to collect the insurance.
Episode 6
Farah is an independent young British woman who manages to reconcile her modern lifestyle with her Pakistani heritage. As a Muslim in love with a married man, she can become his second wife - especially as his first marriage to Maryam seems to exist in name only. But with all three under one roof, Farah becomes increasingly insecure.
Episode 7
A woman dealing with inconsolable grief over the death of her partner gets another chance when he returns to Earth as a ghost.
Episode 8
Mon, Nov 9, 1992
British drama following the lives of a group of friends who met at university.
Episode 9
Utz, an impassioned and once wealthy nobleman, is reduced to living in a two-room flat in Stalinist Prague with his priceless collection of Meissen porcelain. Fischer, a New York art dealer, visits Prague on Utz's death to discover that the collection has vanished, a mystery that only Utz's maid Marta can explain.
Episode 10
89 mins
A new government takes power with a drastically reduced majority. But the ambitious young Home Secretary has a plan to bring the legal establishment to heel and bypass Parliament altogether.
Episode 11
90 mins
A semi-fictionalized account of the life of writer F.R. Leavis, his mentor Arthur Quiller Couch, and Leavis's own students at Cambridge University.
Episode 12
Four women rent a chateau on a remote Italian island to try to come to grips with their lives and relationships. They explore the differences in their personalities, reassess their goals, and reexamine their relationships in a sisterly fashion.
Episode 13
98 mins
The story sets in UK during the 1950's. Lettie Colston is a bad tempered lady, who treats in a very rude fashion her maid and has a quite strict personality. Charmian Colston, on the contrary, is a very nice woman, but she lives obsessed with Jean Taylor, because she calls every person like that despite his husband, Godfrey Colston, tells her everyday that Taylor's in the hospital. In fact, Lattie visits almost everyday to Jean at the hospital, a very calm old lady, who shares the room with other old women, some of them living in her own world. One day, Lattie receives a mysterious phone call, with a creepy male voice speaking, telling that "remember that you have to die one day". Charmian is receiving the same phone calls as well as Godfrey. Other friends are receiving the phone calls as well, a group of old people who likes to organize social reunions, gathering together in funerals. Lattie and Charmian are too scared because of these phone calls, and they're trying to find out who might be the responsible. Nevertheless, Godfrey has a fetish obsession with woman legs and he's been unfaithful to Charmian with a younger woman, in fact, the girlfriend of an old man, whom Godfrey can't stand because he pretends to be a literary critic. A refined and attractive lady, Mrs. Mabel Pettigrew leads the group during the social events and she offers to care for Charmian at her house, having a very seductive behavior with Godfrey, when she dares to show her legs to him. However, Lattie wants to solve the phone calls mystery with the help of a kind doctor, because the culprit maybe is among them.