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14x1
Stan's Last Game
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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
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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
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When his father comes home to Belfast after more than 2 years in England, conflicts arise with Billy
14x4
Z for Zachariah
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After a nuclear holocaust, only a man and a woman survive in a Welsh valley.
14x4
Moving on the Edge
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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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An expedition tracing the path of long-lost missionaries meets with tragedy in the Kalahari Desert.
14x7
Hard Feelings
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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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Concerning the life of the artist Vincent Van Gogh
14x9
King
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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
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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
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In a future society where euthansia is common, a man signs papers to have his father put down
14x11
The Groundling and the Kite
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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
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In 1959 Ulster, a journalist witnesses the beating of a youth
14x13
It Could Happen to Anybody
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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
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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
The Amazing Miss Stella Estelle
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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
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What is the secret of Joey and Spansky's success at the races?
14x17
Talk to Me
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Matthew and his wife are deeply suspicious of psychoanalysis. It's not their sort of thing at all.
14x17
Bird Fancier
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A young boy is drawn into the world of pigeon racing in a northern English town.
14x19
Brigadista
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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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