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  • : 1970
  • : 314
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  • BBC One
  • Comedy Drama Science-fiction

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The Long Distance Piano Player
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15, 1970
A man tries to break the world's record for nonstop piano playing
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The Right Prospectus
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22, 1970
A couple look for the proper school, not for their children but for themselves.
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The Lie
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29, 1970
""The Lie"" refers to the 8-year marriage of a couple who are constantly hurting each other.
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Angels Are So Few
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05, 1970
A man claiming to be an angel enters the household of a bored housewife and teaches the family a few lessons
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The Write-Off
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12, 1970
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.
1x6
I Can't See My Little Willie
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19, 1970
A man has a mid-life crisis in his brother's pub where sees life as a game show
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A Distant Thunder
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26, 1970
A boy's hero-worship of his distinguished father is threatened by the intrusion of echoes from the hero's wartime past.
1x8
Hearts and Flowers
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03, 1970
A TV host and his architect brother attend their father's funeral
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Robin Redbreast
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10, 1970
Norah Palmer (Anna Cropper) is a television script editor who temporarily moves to a remote English country village to rebuild her life. At first, she finds that the villagers are .. show full overview
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The Hallelujah Handshake
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17, 1970
A petty thief and social misfit finagles his way into a church congregation
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Alma Mater
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07, 1971
A civil servant working abroad revisits his old school
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Circle Line
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14, 1971
A play by a student about a student, and his unexpected reactions to the pressure or vacuum of student life. Something, too, of what the rest of us look like from that young point of view.
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Hell's Angel
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21, 1971
The adopted child is useful; the grown-up boy a problem. But it isn't so easy to drop a person.
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The Piano
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28, 1971
An old couple refuse to move when they find out that they can't take their piano with them
1x15
Billy's Last Stand
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04, 1971
Billy is his own boss. But Darkly has plans for him...
1x16
The Rainbirds
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11, 1971
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.
1x17
Reddick
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18, 1971
Charges that the Rev 'Red' Reddick is exploiting his youth club members leads to an explosive confrontation.
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The Foxtrot
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29, 1971
An odd menage a trois results when a woman and her lover are visited by her long-lost husband
1x19
When the Bough Breaks
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06, 1971
When an injured baby arrives at the hospital, a social worker looks for the parents
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Orkney
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13, 1971
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
1x21
The Rank and File
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20, 1971
The story of the Pilkington glass workers strike of 1970
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The Man in the Sidecar
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27, 1971
A succesful novelist Edith lives with her husband and his friend, but she decides to ask the friend to leave.
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Everybody Say Cheese
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03, 1971
The story of a disintegrating marriage told through family photos

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