Season 6

Episodes • 1979

School Play

1. School Play

min

A play about the horrors of life at an English public school - with all the schoolboys played by adults.

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Every Good Boy Deserves Favour

2. Every Good Boy Deserves Favour

min

A dissident, Alexander, has been pronounced insane by the authorities (although he isn't), and finds himself sharing a cell with a genuine mental patient, Ivanov.

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The Brylcreem Boys

3. The Brylcreem Boys

min

Cpl. George Hunn's sentry post is knocked over and he wakes to find he is suffering from frost bite of the face. Sent to hospital he is put on a ward with aircrew who have mental issues. He is trapped reenacting their missions at night.

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An Affinity with Dr. Still

4. An Affinity with Dr. Still

min

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Home Movies

5. Home Movies

min

Keith and Alec have been making holiday movies, together for 25 years. Alec suddenly spots a moment between wife Sybil and Keith. He realises daughter Katie is actually Keith's and she is in a sexual relationship with her 'brother' John.

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Sweet Wine of Youth

6. Sweet Wine of Youth

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Speed King

7. Speed King

min

In 1935, Sir Malcolm Campbell's obsession is to win the World's Land Speed Record in his car Bluebird. Speed King is about the man, the car, and the ruthless, but irresistible, public ambition of a world hero.

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Pews

8. Pews

min

Set in a north country synagogue, a group of Jewish men have to organise a shiva, however, not having the required number of their faith, resort to recruiting George, a 'non-Jew', to make up the numbers.

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Gentle Folk

9. Gentle Folk

75 min

An Edwardian house party given by a Fabian woman, her business-man husband and assorted guests from politics and the Arts—including a young man prone to disturbing premonitions.

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Trouble with Gregory

10. Trouble with Gregory

min

Gregory has troubles enough when Ella moves him out and sets him up for a job with the radio. Suspicions of infidelity can make the world a disturbing place. But then he still has to meet the new neighbours...

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Lifelike

11. Lifelike

min

A comprehensive school is praised for its authenticity, but one schoolboy does not agree with this assessment.

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The Enigma

12. The Enigma

min

An upper-class young man has rejected his affluent background, but, when a crisis comes, reverts to type pretty quickly.

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Hesther for Example

13. Hesther for Example

min

Cousin, W. Clifford Mill, ran a dirty postcard business; which brings Paul to the country in search of a profitable afternoon. Hesther knows the value of most things and, when evening falls, she turns his visit to her own advantage.

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The Best of Friends

14. The Best of Friends

min

What is friendship? Why do two grown men behave like egomaniac children or flustered prima donnas? And when they meet unexpectedly after ten years, how will things be?

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In Hiding

15. In Hiding

min

A teenager learns about life and death while staying with his aunt during the school holidays.

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Rottingdean

16. Rottingdean

min

Mother is manic, Father frustrated. Son sees himself as quite an operator. Daughter wants to change the dreary world of Jubilee-year England. The day has come. Back to Rottingdean... if all goes smoothly.

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The Dig

17. The Dig

min

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Happy

18. Happy

min

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Mary's Wife

19. Mary's Wife

min

A married transvestite comes to terms with their true gender identity.

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Games Without Frontiers

20. Games Without Frontiers

min

Nobody goes to Amsterdam to wander about. It's either the Rijksmuseum or the red-light district. On the boat going home Clive and Stewart admit to not having spent long in the museums – so what did they get up to in Amsterdam?

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The Unborn

21. The Unborn

min

A physicist has visions of his unborn baby – it turns out that the child will grow up to become a Hitler-like dictator responsible for World War III.

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Electric in the City

22. Electric in the City

min

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Blue Remembered Hills

23. Blue Remembered Hills

min

Repeated from Play for Today

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Thank You Comrades

24. Thank You Comrades

min

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Coming Out

25. Coming Out

min

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Crest of a Wave

26. Crest of a Wave

min

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Freedom of the Dig

27. Freedom of the Dig

min

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A Walk in the Forest

28. A Walk in the Forest

min

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Hallelujah, Mary Plum

29. Hallelujah, Mary Plum

min

A talented, independent artist lives by the sea with her daughter. As summer approaches, she faces two threats to her way of life: the local doctor who is in love with her and her unhappy sister who comes to stay.

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Dalhousie's Luck

30. Dalhousie's Luck

min

Our gamble is over, Dalhousie. You'll walk at dawn tomorrow as agreed, but in case you've no mind to return, there's one fact might persuade you. On what you do hangs not only your life but hers .

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An Ordered Life

31. An Ordered Life

min

German composer Anton Webern survives Naziism only to be shot by an American GI in the closing days of WWII. His son, against his father's wishes, joins the Wehrmacht and is killed in a railway accident in 1943.

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