The Play on One

1. Down Where the Buffalo Go

Air Date: 1988-01-19

A drama made for television by BBC Scotland. It follows the life of a US Marine (played by Keitel) based at the Holy Loch naval base and the local girl he married. Their relationship is at straining point - she wants to leave Scotland and settle in America while he wants to remain in Scotland.

2. The Dark Room

Air Date: 1988-01-26

3. Normal Service

Air Date: 1988-02-02

It's General Election day 1964, and the resources of Forth and Clyde Television are under stress. Too many shows want too many things done too quickly. Some of the design and graphics staff are intent on not getting involved. Others won't survive the strain.

4. The Dunroamin' Rising

Air Date: 1988-02-09

5. A Wholly Healthy Glasgow

Air Date: 1988-02-16

6. Unreported Incident

Air Date: 1988-02-23

Once enemies at opposite ends of a gun on the Irish border, Jack Lawrence and Jimmy Dunne wound up with lives inextricably entwined. Chat show host Michael Flynn wants a sob story with a happy ending, but Jack and Jimmy give him something else entirely.

7. Airbase

Air Date: 1988-03-01

8. The Party

Air Date: 1988-03-08

While Paris students protest in May 1968, TV producer Joe Shawcross hosts a discussion of Socialist beliefs and actions in his fashionable London home. Joe realizes that he is not living his own ideals.

1. Heartland

Air Date: 1989-02-21

Story of Jack and his farming family in West Wales. They have built up their dairy herd with vast loans and are then told they must cut back on milk production and slaughter some of the herd. The community launches a campaign against the quotas, but Jack takes the law into his own hands.

2. These Foolish Things

Air Date: 1989-02-28

Gutrune's hunt for a husband among the wealthy and aristocratic circles of London is hampered by the fact that her chosen man Nick, a London newspaper editor, is still in love with the wife from whom he is separated.

3. Govan Ghost Story

Air Date: 1989-03-07

Old memories are awakened in a terrifying and dangerous way when Jock encounters a strange little girl in the high-rise block of flats where he lives. Who is she? What does she want?

4. The Shawl

Air Date: 1989-03-14

John performs as a spiritual medium, using the visits of a troubled woman to introduce a young man to the mysteries and skills of the clairvoyant. The young man threatens to leave unless John stages a seance that will persuade Miss A to transfer an inheritance to them.

5. A View of Harry Clark

Air Date: 1989-03-21

6. The Gift

Air Date: 1989-03-28

Robert and Gordon, two talented teenage footballers from Wick, are invited to Glasgow for a week's trial with a big club. It is their first taste of professional football, but both the game and the city upset their expectations.

7. Clowns

Air Date: 1989-04-04

8. Biting The Hands

Air Date: 1989-04-11

9. A Master of the Marionettes

Air Date: 1989-04-18

10. Unexplained Laughter

Air Date: 1989-04-25

Lydia is unlucky in love and retreats to the Welsh countryside with her friend Betty. But the beautiful scenery holds its own humour and passion.

1. Changing Step

Air Date: 1990-07-26

Spring 1917: the privileged world of Sorn Castle is upside down, its stately rooms full of amputees from the Western Front. While the local aristocracy makes a first attempt at nursing, a romance blossoms.

2. The Wreck on the Highway

Air Date: 1990-08-02

Washed up country-and-western singer John McGuire is broke and his family is emigrating. He and grandson Billy share the same dreams. They run away together in search of John's wealthy American ex-co-star Betsy Hall.

3. Killing Time

Air Date: 1990-08-09

DHSS clerk Martin meets 17-year-old Harry, who is sleeping rough, and invites him to stay for the weekend. Martin begins to trust Harry. Could this be the love that they are both looking for?

4. Obituaries

Air Date: 1990-08-16

In a nursing home for the elderly, White and Apcar compete for the privilege of shaking the Royal hand. The Daily Telegraph is the battleground, the obituary columns the challenge. As the game progresses it soon becomes clear that both are in deadly earnest.

5. Separation

Air Date: 1990-08-23

When Sarah, a New York actress, calls Joe, a London playwright they begin a very special relationship conducted through trans-Atlantic phone calls. And both Sarah and Joe have very special conditions they both have to fight to overcome their separation. Later distributed under the title Don't Hang Up.

6. Yellowbacks

Air Date: 1990-08-30

Chilling drama set in the future when draconian powers have been given to the authorities under the new Secret Emergency Provisions of the Dangerous Disease Act. Dr Juliet Horwitz finds herself hooded, handcuffed and interrogated by a ruthless pair, as does a scientist Alex McPherson, both of whom are the key to finding Martin Pitt, a virus carrier who has disappeared.

1. Misterioso

Air Date: 1991-07-25

On the death of her mother, a young woman in northern England learns that her father is actually her step-father. She embarks on a search for her birth father, finds him running a jazz club in London, and learns a lot of happy and sad things about her family that she didn't know before. The title of the film is the classic jazz piece, "Misterioso," by Thelonious Monk, which features prominently in it.

2. Gas and Candles

Air Date: 1991-08-01

Two pensioners strike back as they struggle to survive in a high-rise flat. A tin of salmon triggers a chain of events which changes their lives. The key to this intriguing tale is the identity of 'Mr Shah'.

3. Escape From Kampala

Air Date: 1991-08-08

4. And the Cow Jumped Over the Moon

Air Date: 1991-08-15

Wisecracking hospital DJ Eddie brightens the daily routine for former nightclub singer Andrea and her fellow patients. They share hopes and dreams for the future. But the future is unpredictable and provides a few surprises.

5. Out of the Blue

Air Date: 1991-08-22

6. Effie's Burning

Air Date: 1991-08-29