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Anthology drama series.
Seasons
1. One Way Out
Air Date: 1989-09-10
James Carlisle is a successful architect who sees his children every weekend following his divorce from Lyn. When Lyn falls in love with the unstable Bernard, James is forced to take drastic action.
2. 1996
Air Date: 1989-09-17
Starring Keith Barron as Cmdr Jack Bentham, Alun Armstrong as Det Supt Frank Burroughs, Gillian Eaton as Maureen Fry, Dudley Sutton as Deputy Commissioner Sir Harry Streeter. Britain in the mid-1990s is a divided and violent nation where civil disorder and urban terrorism are on the increase. Commander Jack Bentham, a senior Scotland Yard detective already investigating shootings at a violent demonstration by radical nurses, finds himself seconded to Wales to look into a series of shootings by police officers in that province. As he probes deeper into both cases, Bentham uncovers a complex web of deceit which hints at corruption at the highest levels of the establishment.
3. The Accountant
Air Date: 1989-09-24
Alfred Molina stars as accountant Lionel Ellerman, baffled by the mafia's interest in his son's barmitzvah.
4. Home Run
Air Date: 1989-10-01
Back in London from abroad, Bill English has it all - smart flat with a river view, flash car and, of course, the beautiful Anna. But he was born and brought up in these parts and everything's changed. Anna asks: 'Where are the ghosts Bill?'
5. She's Been Away
Air Date: 1989-10-08
An unexpected pact develops between two women, one of whom has been away in a 'home' since she was a rebellious girl half a century ago.
6. The Mountain and the Molehill
Air Date: 1989-10-15
It is May 1944, two weeks before D-day. Britain stands poised for the long-awaited invasion of France - thousands of troops wait anxiously for the orders to come for embarkation. MI5 is horrified to discover the top-secret codewords for the invasion suddenly appearing as clues in the Daily Telegraph crossword. Two agents are immediately dispatched to confront the culprit, the headmaster of a boys' school in southern England.
7. Blore M.P.
Air Date: 1989-10-22
Derek Blore, MP, enjoys both a happy successful political career and a sideline in the suburbs. When his two political lives become confused, with an added Russian complication, he finds a national scandal engulfing him.
8. Ball Trap on the Cote Sauvage
Air Date: 1989-12-27
Comedy drama set on a camp site in southern France, featuring a diverse assortment of characters.
1. News Hounds
Air Date: 1990-09-02
Every cub reporter wants a front page 'splash' and the journalists from The Brit, a top-selling daily tabloid, are no exception. They're on the trail of a sensational story and their jobs depend on it.
2. Frankenstein's Baby
Air Date: 1990-09-09
Paul quarrels with his girlfriend Jane about when to start a family and Dr Eva Frankenstein comes to his aid by helping him to become the world's first pregnant man.
3. The Police
Air Date: 1990-09-16
A group of schoolchildren set up a police force to stand up to the school bullies but things soon get out of hand..
4. Sweet Nothing
Air Date: 1990-09-23
A youth abandoned by his family joins a group of homeless people.
5. Can You Hear Me Thinking?
Air Date: 1990-09-30
When Danny, the adolescent son of Kevin and Anne Harris, first shows signs of disturbance, no one seems too concerned. But the situation gets dramatically out of control.
6. One Last Chance
Air Date: 1990-10-07
Nick, a Greek Cypriot living in London, hits on the idea of marriage to raise some cash - the bride, according to custom, coming complete with dowry. He is forced to enlist the help of a childhood adversary, Maria. Soon realising she is giving him the runaround, Nick retaliates by wooing her.
7. Sticky Wickets
Air Date: 1990-10-14
It's a big night at the New Dragon Inn when a coach of distinguished Germans arrives. But disaster looms - it's the local cricket team's annual fancy dress bash and the theme is the Second World War.
8. Survival of the Fittest
Air Date: 1990-10-21
Molly Cowper is a wilful 80-year-old widow who firmly believes the world is there for her convenience. Her mild-mannered son Geoffrey does his best to help her keep her independence, but Molly keeps trampling on people.
9. Dark City
Air Date: 1990-12-11
A political thriller written by David Lan , is inspired by events in the townships of South Africa. At the same time as protesters weave through the shanty town of 'Dark City', the mayor's home is burgled. These two apparently unconnected events lead to the death of a councillor. Seven people are put on trial and only one person can prove their innocence.
10. Happy Feet
Air Date: 1991-01-01
The pupils of the Dora Jackson School of Dancing compete in the 1960 Classical Dance Festival in Scarborough. Fifties rock 'n' roll meets classical ballet with the arrival of Dora's ex-boyfriend Clifford and a mysterious ghost.
1. Hancock
Air Date: 1991-09-01
A portrayal of the last years in the life of the comedian Tony Hancock. His refusal to accept the limitations of his own genius destroys his two marriages and, eventually, himself.
2. Tell Me That You Love Me
Air Date: 1991-09-08
Laura Simms has an exciting job as a top magazine editor, but her love life's a disaster. Her luck seems to change when she meets Gabriel, a handsome but mysterious man who believes in old-fashioned love and marriage.
3. Filipina Dreamgirls
Air Date: 1991-09-15
Five men from Wales book a package tour to the Philippines, hoping for romance and possible marriage with Filipina women.
4. Dancin' Thru the Dark
Air Date: 1991-09-22
Linda is out on her hen night while her fiance Dave is out on his stag night. Linda is having major doubts about getting married. Both groups end up at the same club, only to discover that its band is fronted by her ex-boyfriend - and the love of her life - Peter. Linda has to decide: does she stay and settle down with Dave, like her friends want her to, or does she chuck it all in and run away with Peter?
5. Ex
Air Date: 1991-09-29
Griff Rhys Jones stars as a writer on a popular television soap opera who falls in love with the show's leading lady but finds himself unable to break his ties with his ex-wife and their children.
6. Prince
Air Date: 1991-10-06
Story of how a family is affected very greatly by their Alsation dog, Prince.
7. Alive and Kicking
Air Date: 1991-10-13
A black comedy which takes an unflinching look at drug addiction. Smudger is a dealer and Liam is a counsellor who tries to break him.
8. A Question of Attribution
Air Date: 1991-10-20
A drama about the double life led by Sir Anthony Blunt, Soviet agent and Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures.
9. Adam Bede
Air Date: 1992-01-01
This first film adaptation of George Eliot 's classic novel was written by Maggie Wadey , who wrote the much-praised adaptation of Precious Bane. Two young men, the carpenter Adam Bede and the squire Arthur Donnithorne , find themselves competing for the love of the beautiful dairymaid Hetty Sorrel. It is a triangle which eventually leads to tragedy for all of them. When Adam Bede was published in 1859 it was greeted as the work of a major new talent. Charles Dickens was sure the author was a woman. He was right, for George Eliot was the pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans , a country girl who told her publisher that Adam Bede would be full of "the breath of cows and the scent of hay".
1. A Very Polish Practice
Air Date: 1992-09-06
Spin-off film from the series A Very Peculiar Practice set in a Polish hospital. Dr Dakar and his wife are happy in Warsaw until two figures from the past complicate matters.
2. Disaster at Valdez
Air Date: 1992-09-13
The real-life struggle to contain the environmental and financial damage caused to Alaska by the oil spill from the Exxon Valdez is dramatized.
3. Born Kicking
Air Date: 1992-09-20
Roxanne (known as Roxy) is a star performer in her local soccer team. Her natural talent is noticed by local team owner Victor Grace who signs her up. However it's not so easy being the only female professional soccer star in the country.
4. Black and Blue
Air Date: 1992-09-27
When a local black politician is murdered an undercover police officer unveils a web of police corruption which puts lives at risk and threatens the whole community.
5. Seconds Out
Air Date: 1992-10-04
When boxer Murray Ritchie is framed for rape, he loses his chance of a long-awaited title fight. Released too late by the police, he blames Jack, his veteran trainer and manager, and goes over to rival promoter Tony Farrington. Needing the money, Murray is encouraged to turn to the rough and seedy unlicensed circuit for a fight that would see him banned from professional bouts.
6. Running Late
Air Date: 1992-10-11
George Grant is a television interviewer renowned for his ability to get the truth. Now he must find the truth about his wife's disappearance.
7. Losing Track
Air Date: 1992-10-18
In 1950, a man returns home to the UK from India after the death of his wife to build bridges with his son, but instead ends up building an elaborate model railway.
8. Trust Me
Air Date: 1992-10-25
Harry plays hoaxes on gullible tabloid journalists. But when he gets ambitious and tries to sell the faked memoirs of a contract killer to a publisher, things start to go seriously wrong.
9. Ghostwatch
Air Date: 1992-10-31
Special drama for Hallowe'en by Stephen Volk, starring Michael Parkinson, Sarah Greene, Mike Smith, Craig Charles. Ghosts no longer inhabit stately homes and rattle chains. They live in ordinary council houses like that of Mrs Pamela Early. For months she's suffered strange noises, awful smells and bent cutlery, but is hers really the most haunted house in Britain? BBC TV turns the cameras on ghoulies, ghosties and things that go bump in the night.
10. The Hummingbird Tree
Air Date: 1992-12-20
Alan, a 12-year-old white boy, is facing disapproval from his parents over his friendship with Jaillin, their Indian kitchen girl. But their concern turns to alarm when the relationship threatens to become more than a childhood crush. With the island's first free elections looming, the children find themselves trapped in a conflict of class, caste and prejudice.
1. Wide-Eyed and Legless
Air Date: 1993-09-05
Diana and Deric have an ideal marriage: they thrive in each other's company, they're funny, and they enjoy their two grown children and Deric's dotty mother; the trouble is, Diana can no longer walk and her malady defies medical diagnosis. To care for Diana, Deric is letting his business slide, but at a civic luncheon, he is seated next to Aileen Armitage, a novelist who is blind. They have a nice time, and on the sly, Diana contacts Aileen to made an odd request. Diana's declining health and her resolve bring this triangle of unlikely friends to a surprising place.
2. A Foreign Field
Air Date: 1993-09-12
Two veterans of the Normandy landings return to France to visit the grave of their wartime buddy, sparking memories of an old girlfriend.
3. Down Among the Big Boys
Air Date: 1993-09-19
Set in Glasgow, Louie, the detective son of an upright police sergeant, is about to marry. His intended is the daughter of JoJo, a wealthy and compulsive thief who attempts a spectacular robbery. Louie is put in charge of the investigation of JoJo's latest enterprise.
4. Royal Celebration
Air Date: 1993-09-26
Drama about a street party held to mark the 1981 royal wedding. The spirit of rejoicing fires already-high emotions, and passions spill over changing lives forever.
5. Tender Loving Care
Air Date: 1993-10-03
Night nurse Elaine Dobbs may be overworked and underpaid, but she has created a very special atmosphere in her ward and is extremely attentive to her patients. However, rather too many of them are dying.Inspired by the real-life case of four nurses in Austria who were tried for the murder of 42 patients in their care, this chilling drama stars comedian Dawn French in her first serious role, as an apparently irreproachable carer.
6. Money for Nothing
Air Date: 1993-10-10
The story of an ambitious schoolboy, Gary Worrall (played by Christien Anholt), who sets out to make £1M during his half term school break! He is aided and abetted in this adventure by his school mate Brian Thurrock (Paul Reynolds). All goes smoothly until he meets the beautiful Lisa (Jayne Ashbourne) and he realises that life in the 'real' world is much more complicated than the theory in the classroom!
7. Wall of Silence
Air Date: 1993-10-17
A corpse is fished out of a north London canal with stab wounds through the eyes. The victim was a prominent member of the Hasidic Jewish community, and the cause of death one reserved by the Hasidim to punish "moysers" or informers.
8. The Bullion Boys
Air Date: 1993-10-24
Based on a true story. In 1940, Britain's gold reserves were transferred for safety to Liverpool because of the threat of a German invasion. The top-secret operation was known only to a handful of security men and senior bank officials... and a group of Liverpool dockers who handle the move. Billy Mac, the dockers' leader, hatches an ingenious plan to steal some of the gold bars from under the noses of the guards.
1. Bambino Mio
Air Date: 1994-02-06
A woman's fight to adopt a war baby from the Third World after becoming unable to conceive.
2. A Breed of Heroes
Air Date: 1994-09-04
In 1971, fresh-faced, eager for heroics, the young officers arrive in Belfast. Pelted with rocks by kids, sniped at by the IRA, they take refuge in sex, black humour and the weird rituals of the officers' mess.
3. Pat and Margaret
Air Date: 1994-09-11
A Lancashire-born American soap star who, returning to Britain, is reunited on live television with her sister Margaret—a motorway cafeteria waitress.
4. Two Golden Balls
Air Date: 1994-09-18
A repressed anti-porn campaigner meets a glamorous American porn actress who changes her outlook on life.
5. Meat
Air Date: 1994-09-25
Charlie Dyce, an ex-young offender, works in a seedy London café and meets Myra, a prostitute. Her pimp begins to cause trouble when she becomes pregnant.
6. Murder in Mind
Air Date: 1994-10-02
A body is found face down in a tank. Detective Inspector Iverson, investigating what seems like a routine case of suicide, becomes involved with the mesmerizing psychotherapist who was helping the dead woman find her true self. Gradually their roles are reversed as her probing uncovers the detective's own deeper motives and needs, until the knife-edge between suicide and murder is exposed.
7. Doggin' Around
Air Date: 1994-10-16
The past catches up with an ageing American jazz pianist when he returns to the clubs of Lancashire and Yorkshire that he last visited 10 years previously.
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Rating
7.0/10
Release Date
1989-09-10
Episodes
52 (6 seasons)
Status
Ended