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

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1x1
The Long Distance Piano Player
Episode overview
15, 1970
A man tries to break the world's record for nonstop piano playing
1x2
The Right Prospectus
Episode overview
22, 1970
A couple look for the proper school, not for their children but for themselves.
1x3
The Lie
Episode overview
29, 1970
""The Lie"" refers to the 8-year marriage of a couple who are constantly hurting each other.
1x4
Angels Are So Few
Episode overview
05, 1970
A man claiming to be an angel enters the household of a bored housewife and teaches the family a few lessons
1x5
The Write-Off
Episode overview
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
Episode overview
19, 1970
A man has a mid-life crisis in his brother's pub where sees life as a game show
1x7
A Distant Thunder
Episode overview
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
1x9
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
1x10
The Hallelujah Handshake
Episode overview
17, 1970
A petty thief and social misfit finagles his way into a church congregation
1x11
Alma Mater
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07, 1971
A civil servant working abroad revisits his old school
1x12
Circle Line
Episode overview
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.
1x13
Hell's Angel
Episode overview
21, 1971
The adopted child is useful; the grown-up boy a problem. But it isn't so easy to drop a person.
1x14
The Piano
Episode overview
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
Episode overview
04, 1971
Billy is his own boss. But Darkly has plans for him...
1x16
The Rainbirds
Episode overview
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
Episode overview
18, 1971
Charges that the Rev 'Red' Reddick is exploiting his youth club members leads to an explosive confrontation.
1x18
The Foxtrot
Episode overview
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
1x20
Orkney
Episode overview
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
1x22
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.
1x23
Everybody Say Cheese
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03, 1971
The story of a disintegrating marriage told through family photos

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