Season 1 (1970)
Episodes: 24
Star Cast:
Episodes List
Ep.1 The Long Distance Piano Player
Air Date: 1970-10-15
A man tries to break the world's record for nonstop piano playing
Ep.2 The Right Prospectus
Air Date: 1970-10-22
A couple look for the proper school, not for their children but for themselves.
Ep.3 The Lie
Air Date: 1970-10-29
""The Lie"" refers to the 8-year marriage of a couple who are constantly hurting each other.
Ep.4 Angels Are So Few
Air Date: 1970-11-05
A man claiming to be an angel enters the household of a bored housewife and teaches the family a few lessons.
Ep.5 The Write-Off
Air Date: 1970-11-12
A man is made redundant but can't bring himself to let anyone know, plunging into a web of deceit as he keeps up the charade he is still in work.
Ep.6 I Can't See My Little Willie
Air Date: 1970-11-19
A man has a mid-life crisis in his brother's pub where sees life as a game show
Ep.7 A Distant Thunder
Air Date: 1970-11-26
A newly-appointed knight finds his celebrations cut short by someone who was witness to his treachery during the war.
Ep.8 Hearts and Flowers
Air Date: 1970-12-03
A TV host and his architect brother attend their father's funeral
Ep.9 Robin Redbreast
Air Date: 1970-12-10
A woman living in a country cottage thinks that someone is trying to get her.
Ep.10 The Hallelujah Handshake
Air Date: 1970-12-17
A petty thief and social misfit finagles his way into a church congregation
Ep.11 Alma Mater
Air Date: 1971-01-07
A civil servant working abroad revisits his old school
Ep.12 Circle Line
Air Date: 1971-01-14
A cynical student has a radically different view of life from his landlady, leading to conflict. Matters come to a head when he sleeps with her fourteen-year-old brother.
Ep.13 Hell's Angel
Air Date: 1971-01-21
A couple are distressed by the changes in their adopted teenage son when he joins a biker gang.
Ep.14 The Piano
Air Date: 1971-01-28
An old couple refuse to move when they find out that they can't take their piano with them
Ep.15 Billy's Last Stand
Air Date: 1971-02-04
Billy, a self-employed coal-shoveller, gains a seedy business partner and competition in the form of a rival coal-shoveller.
Ep.16 The Rainbirds
Air Date: 1971-02-11
A man who attempted suicide by jumping out a window is saved only to live in a coma, in which he has fantasies about his relatives and nightmare creatures.
Ep.17 Reddick
Air Date: 1971-02-18
Charges that the Rev 'Red' Reddick is exploiting his youth club members leads to an explosive confrontation.
Ep.18 The Foxtrot
Air Date: 1971-04-29
An odd menage a trois results when a woman and her lover are visited by her long-lost husband
Ep.19 When the Bough Breaks
Air Date: 1971-05-06
When an injured baby arrives at the hospital, a social worker looks for the parents
Ep.20 Orkney
Air Date: 1971-05-13
A trilogy of plays--A Time to Keep, The Whaler's Return, and Celia--exploring the life of the islanders in the past and present
Ep.21 The Rank and File
Air Date: 1971-05-20
The story of the Pilkington glass workers strike of 1970
Ep.22 The Man in the Sidecar
Air Date: 1971-05-27
A succesful novelist Edith lives with her husband and his friend, but she decides to ask the friend to leave.
Ep.23 Everybody Say Cheese
Air Date: 1971-06-03
The story of a disintegrating marriage told through family photos