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  • Premiered: Oct 1970
  • Episodes: 314
  • Followers: 0
  • Ended
  • BBC One
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  • Comedy Drama Science-fiction

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Season 14
14x1
Stan's Last Game
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 25, 1983
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.
14x2
Young Shoulders
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 14, 1984
Cynical teenager Andrew Groves re-evaluates his attitude to life and his parents after his sister dies in a plane crash.
14x3
A Coming to Terms for Billy
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 21, 1984
When his father comes home to Belfast after more than 2 years in England, conflicts arise with Billy
14x4
Z for Zachariah
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 28, 1984
After a nuclear holocaust, only a man and a woman survive in a Welsh valley.
14x4
Moving on the Edge
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 06, 1984
The study of a woman who is falling apart, but who, at the bottom of the slope, begins to rebuild some hope for her future.
14x6
Desert of Lies
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Air date
Mar 13, 1984
An expedition tracing the path of long-lost missionaries meets with tragedy in the Kalahari Desert.
14x7
Hard Feelings
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Air date
Mar 20, 1984
A group of unemployed Oxford drop-outs living in a Brixton commune get their come-uppance by one of them.
14x8
Under the Hammer
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Air date
Mar 27, 1984
Concerning the life of the artist Vincent Van Gogh
14x9
King
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 03, 1984
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.
14x10
Rainy Day Women
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 10, 1984
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
14x11
Dog Ends
Episode overview
Air date
Jul 17, 1984
In a future society where euthansia is common, a man signs papers to have his father put down
14x11
The Groundling and the Kite
Episode overview
Air date
Jul 24, 1984
Peter is a songwriter, while his old friend Jimmy is an Artists and Repertoire man. But when Jimmy tries to sell one of Peter's songs, Peter is furious. Can the friendship survive?
14x13
The Cry
Episode overview
Air date
Jul 31, 1984
In 1959 Ulster, a journalist witnesses the beating of a youth
14x13
It Could Happen to Anybody
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Air date
Aug 14, 1984
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.
14x14
Only Children
Episode overview
Air date
Aug 21, 1984
Jill has everything; a successful career, four close, if somewhat exotic, friends (her 'family') and a live-in lover. They provide for all her needs including, eventually, a baby. But that is where reality sets in.
14x15 Show finale
The Amazing Miss Stella Estelle
Episode overview
Air date
Aug 28, 1984
Stella, 14, works nights. She sings 60s numbers between the stripper with a snake and gorgeous Doris in working men's clubs. She knows what makes her act a success, but does she want to be the breadwinner for her family?
14x16
Punters
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 27, 1984
What is the secret of Joey and Spansky's success at the races?
14x17
Talk to Me
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 11, 1984
Matthew and his wife are deeply suspicious of psychoanalysis. It's not their sort of thing at all.
14x17 Show finale
Bird Fancier
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 15, 1985
A young boy is drawn into the world of pigeon racing in a northern English town.
14x19
Brigadista
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 05, 1985
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.

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