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BBC One 1970 - 1987 14 seasons 315 eps Ended

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1970 - 1987 14 seasons 315 eps

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75 min

S14 · E1 · Oct 25, 1983

Stan's Last Game Episode 1

James Grout and Bert Parnaby are rival chairmen of a northern football club in the run-up to an important cup match. As tempers fray, retiring president Charles Lamb provides a calming voice of sanity.

75 min

S14 · E2 · Feb 14, 1984

Young Shoulders Episode 2

Cynical teenager Andrew Groves re-evaluates his attitude to life and his parents after his sister dies in a plane crash.

75 min

S14 · E3 · Feb 21, 1984

A Coming to Terms for Billy Episode 3

When his father comes home to Belfast after more than 2 years in England, conflicts arise with Billy

75 min

S14 · E4 · Feb 28, 1984

Z for Zachariah Episode 4

After a nuclear holocaust, only a man and a woman survive in a Welsh valley.

75 min

S14 · E5 · Mar 6, 1984

Moving on the Edge Episode 5

A woman in a state of personal crisis finds it hard to communicate with her husband and family.

75 min

S14 · E6 · Mar 13, 1984

Desert of Lies Episode 6

An expedition tracing the path of long-lost missionaries meets with tragedy in the Kalahari Desert.

7.0 · You

75 min

S14 · E7 · Mar 20, 1984

Hard Feelings Episode 7

A group of unemployed Oxford drop-outs living in a Brixton commune get their come-uppance by one of them.

75 min

S14 · E8 · Mar 27, 1984

Under the Hammer Episode 8

Concerning the life of the artist Vincent Van Gogh

75 min

S14 · E9 · Apr 3, 1984

King Episode 9

A man who has had a good life in England wants to retire to Jamaica, but the celebration with his daughters doesn't go as expected.

75 min

S14 · E10 · Apr 10, 1984

Rainy Day Women Episode 10

In 1940, during World War II, an officer is sent to investigate rumors of German spies in a sleepy village where various people are the victims of war hysteria

75 min

S14 · E11 · Jul 17, 1984

Dog Ends Episode 11

In a future society where euthansia is common, a man signs papers to have his father put down

7.2 · You

75 min

S14 · E12 · Jul 24, 1984

The Groundling and the Kite Episode 12

Peter is a songwriter, while his old friend Jimmy is an A and R (Artists and Repertoire) man. But when Jimmy tries to sell one of Peter's songs, Peter is furious. Can the friendship survive?

75 min

S14 · E13 · Jul 31, 1984

The Cry Episode 13

In 1959 Ulster, a journalist witnesses the beating of a youth

54 min

S14 · E14 · Aug 14, 1984

It Could Happen to Anybody Episode 14

A long-suffering Glasgow housewife puts up with years of her husband's violence and drunkenness - and then something happens which makes her snap and fight back.

75 min

S14 · E15 · Aug 21, 1984

Only Children Episode 15

A young woman's comfortable life is turned upside down when she has a baby.

75 min

S14 · E16 · Aug 28, 1984

The Amazing Miss Stella Estelle Episode 16

Miss Stella Estelle is a cabaret singer in working men's clubs, and she sings songs from the 1960s to support a large and difficult family. But how long can it go on? The backdrop is a family in decay: husband out of work, wife working and still doing the domestics, daughter the singer and hopeful star, son her "manager" but in reality going nowhere. Stella plays a crummy club circuit, singing songs for oldies for £50 a night - She's never going to be a star because of her parents' short-sighted greed.

90 min

S14 · E17 · Nov 20, 1984

The Long March Episode 17

A woman returns to Belfast after ten years in England and becomes involved in the Maze prison protest.

75 min

S14 · E18 · Nov 27, 1984

Punters Episode 18

What is the secret of Joey and Spansky's success at the races?

83 min

S14 · E19 · Dec 11, 1984

Talk To Me Episode 19

Matthew and his wife are deeply suspicious of psychoanalysis. It's not their sort of thing at all.

75 min

S14 · E20 · Jan 15, 1985

Bird Fancier Episode 20

A young boy is drawn into the world of pigeon racing in a northern English town.

67 min

S14 · E21 · Feb 5, 1985

Brigadista Episode 21

When best-selling author James Fuller Hayes comes to Glasgow to publicise his personal account of the Spanish Civil War, a surprise reunion with two of his old comrades from the Int Brigade reveals contradictory & devastating information.

21 episodes in Season 14

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