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  • Premiered: Oct 1970
  • Episodes: 314
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  • Ended
  • BBC One
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  • Comedy Drama Science-fiction

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Season 13
13x1
Soft Targets
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 19, 1982
A story about a homesick Russian journalist in London at the end of the cold war
13x2
Three Minute Heroes
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Air date
Oct 26, 1982
'Hello. I'm Billy and I'm going to enjoy myself first.' Saturday. Out on the streets, young people looking for fun. Billy, living for Two-Tone music. Adrian, only limping when he walks. .. show full overview
13x3
The Remainder Man
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Air date
Nov 02, 1982
A man with an obsession - a family trapped - but maybe there is a way out, after all?
13x4
Intensive Care
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Air date
Nov 09, 1982
A man holds a lonely vigil at the bedside of his dying father.
13x5
A Mother Like Him
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Air date
Nov 16, 1982
A family of five orphaned children are going to be split up into different homes. What will happen if the eldest is officially made their foster parent?
13x6
John David
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Air date
Nov 23, 1982
Patrick and Judith have everything prepared for the arrival of their first child but when he is born, they are quite unprepared for the crisis they must face.
13x7
Aliens
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Air date
Nov 30, 1982
In June 1940 Italy entered the war. With Britain threatened by a German invasion thousands of Italians were seized and thrown into security camps, with other friendly aliens - and Nazis.
13x8
Another Flip for Dominick
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Air date
Dec 14, 1982
Two years after his journey to the past, Dominick Hide has been promoted to instructor and is no longer a time traveller. Then one of his pupils, Pyrus Bonnington, goes missing during a .. show full overview
13x9
Last Love
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Air date
Mar 01, 1983
Tending her husband's grave one day, Annabel Fox meets Jack Ives, a retired regimental sergeant-major. But when their friendship turns to love and talk of marriage, Annabel's children .. show full overview
13x10
Gates of Gold
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Air date
Mar 08, 1983
In 1959 County Antrim, two traveling evangelists help a mentally retarded teenager
13x11
Wayne and Albert
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Air date
Mar 15, 1983
Forced on each other's company through no fault of their own and having nothing in common, Albert and his grandson, Wayne, are soon at daggers drawn. Until, that is ...
13x12
Atlantis
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Air date
Mar 22, 1983
Goff and Lytton have a dream - a canal boat of their own on which to cruise the inland waterways. The reality is the boatyard of Josh Adkins and a rusting hulk called Atlantis.
13x13
The Last Term
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Air date
Apr 05, 1983
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13x14
Reluctant Chickens
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Air date
Apr 12, 1983
A comedy about a couple who want their adult, successful, offspring to fly the nest.
13x15
Shall I Be Mother?
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Air date
Apr 19, 1983
Susan and Jenny are aged 13 and 14 and in care. Jenny's mother has died, Susan hasn't seen hers for years Both influence the close, stormy relationship that develops between the two girls.
13x16
The Falklands Factor
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Air date
Apr 26, 1983
The 18th century writer Samuel Johnson writes a political pamphlet protesting the British going to war with Spain after the 1790 invasion of the Falkland Islands.
13x17
A Matter of Choice for Billy
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Air date
May 10, 1983
When his father leaves Belfast to seek work in England, a young man looks after his sister
13x18
Being Normal
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Air date
Jul 27, 1983
Richard invites Bill and Jody Pym to stay with him for the weekend. Bill seeks Richard’s aid as a writer in publicising the story of his daughter Sadie to aid other parents in Bill and Jody’s situation.
13x18 Season finale
Floating Off
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Air date
Aug 24, 1983
A businessman tries to keep his son from finding out about an unconventional deal he and his secretary are making with a merchant bank.
13x19
Stan's Last Game
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Air date
Oct 25, 1983
Play about amateur football in the north of England. As a cup clash approaches, rival club chairmen Reg and Percy set out to prove that football is a matter of life and death, even at non-league level.

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