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  • BBC One
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12x1
Country
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20, 1981
A family gathering, a christening and a dance. But it's 1945 and there are plans to be made, family wealth to protect and peace to be won.
12x2
London Is Drowning
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27, 1981
'Many areas of London might be under water for days. For example, the Isle of Dogs could be under eight feet of water for six days. River engineers believe that it is not a matter of if there is a flood, but when the flood comes.' (GLC)
12x3
A Room for the Winter
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03, 1981
James, an expatriate South African anti-apartheid fighter, deals with his nightmares and his complaining landlady in a run-down area of London, while dreaming of his lover Stephen, left behind.
12x4
No Visible Scar
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17, 1981
A wounded member of a rebel terrorist organisation is tended by an English nurse ... She is imprisoned, interrogated, then released to face another form of interrogation.
12x5
Iris in the Traffic, Ruby in the Rain
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24, 1981
In Belfast, Ruby has a cold and is caught in the rain while Iris is looking for work and gets caught in traffic
12x6
Protest
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01, 1981
Vaclav Havel, a leading Czechoslovakian playwright, at this time imprisoned for his beliefs, wrote "Protest" as a dramatic expression of the ambiguities of being a writer working in an oppressive regime.
12x7
United Kingdom
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08, 1981
Two men on a local council fight the system when forced with massive spending cuts.
12x8
PQ17
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15, 1981
During World War II, a British officer is ordered to abandon a Russian convoy.
12x9
The Factory
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22, 1981
A manager, a foreman, and two workers are all that remains of a factory yet labor relations stay the same
12x10
England's Green and Pleasant Land
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05, 1982
Local Government Elections 1982 A motorway extension is to be built - the route will be through either the local golf course or the allotments. Which will go, the golfer's beloved .. show full overview
12x11
A Cotswold Death
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12, 1982
A police inspector investigates the murder of an Arab sheik who had become a village's Lord of the Manor.
12x12
Under the Skin
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19, 1982
"When you get to a man in the case, They're like as a row of pins - For the colonel's lady an' Judy O'Grady Are sisters under their skins." (Rudyard Kipling)
12x13
Commitments
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26, 1982
Politics and relationships during the last years of the Heath government
12x14
Life After Death
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02, 1982
Meg: We were so close, we loved each other, we made a whole together. I feel cut in half.
12x15
The Silly Season
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09, 1982
Four students working in a factory cause emotional, as well as industrial catastrophe, for when theory and reality meet it is the 'Silly Season'.
12x16
Too Late to Talk to Billy
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16, 1982
A family in Belfast deals with life after the death of the mother from cancer
12x17
Willie's Last Stand
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23, 1982
A comedy by JIM ALLEN Every man needs just one night out, off the leash. Willie's attempt to prove himself provides a painfully funny and painfully sad comment on the battle of the sexes.
12x18
Tishoo
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09, 1982
It is the mid-1980s. The Economy has not improved. For 17 years Professor Frank Merrick has been ensconced in a Research Lab of a Provincial University working on a cure for the common .. show full overview
12x19
Home Sweet Home
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16, 1982
A story about the lives of three postal sorters and their dysfunctional families.
12x20
A Sudden Wrench
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23, 1982
Christine takes up an unusual line of work and proves she is not just another bored housewife.
12x21
Eve Set the Balls of Corruption Going
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30, 1982
Adolescents will always be obsessed by the same old subject, even when they are educated by nuns. Six ex-Classmates meet for the first time in 12 years and hilarious memories change into highly emotional situations.
12x22
Whistling Wally
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06, 1982
' While Wally was happy there wasn't much wrong with the world, and pints seemed a small price to pay for what he gave us. But don't forget what we gave him. We gave him the knowledge he was important, at least to us.....

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