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October 25, 1983

Season 14

01. Stan's Last Game

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.

1h 15min
October 25, 1983

02. Young Shoulders

Cynical teenager Andrew Groves re-evaluates his attitude to life and his parents after his sister dies in a plane crash.

1h 15min
February 14, 1984

03. A Coming to Terms for Billy

When his father comes home to Belfast after more than 2 years in England, conflicts arise with Billy

1h 15min
February 21, 1984

04. Z for Zachariah

After a nuclear holocaust, only a man and a woman survive in a Welsh valley.

1h 15min
February 28, 1984

05. Moving on the Edge

A woman in a state of personal crisis finds it hard to communicate with her husband and family.

1h 15min
March 6, 1984

06. Desert of Lies

An expedition tracing the path of long-lost missionaries meets with tragedy in the Kalahari Desert.

1h 15min
March 13, 1984

07. Hard Feelings

A group of unemployed Oxford drop-outs living in a Brixton commune get their come-uppance by one of them.

1h 15min
March 20, 1984

08. Under the Hammer

Concerning the life of the artist Vincent Van Gogh

1h 15min
March 27, 1984

09. King

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.

1h 15min
April 3, 1984

10. Rainy Day Women

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

1h 15min
April 10, 1984

11. Dog Ends

In a future society where euthansia is common, a man signs papers to have his father put down

1h 15min
July 17, 1984

12. The Groundling and the Kite

Peter is a songwriter, while his old friend Jimmy is an A and R (Artists and Repertoire) man. But when Jimmy tries to sell one of Peter's songs, Peter is furious. Can the friendship survive?

1h 15min
July 24, 1984

13. The Cry

In 1959 Ulster, a journalist witnesses the beating of a youth

1h 15min
July 31, 1984

14. It Could Happen to Anybody

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.

1h 15min
August 14, 1984

15. Only Children

A young woman's comfortable life is turned upside down when she has a baby.

1h 15min
August 21, 1984

16. The Amazing Miss Stella Estelle

Miss Stella Estelle is a cabaret singer in working men's clubs, and she sings songs from the 1960s to support a large and difficult family. But how long can it go on? The backdrop is a family in decay: husband out of work, wife working and still doing the domestics, daughter the singer and hopeful star, son her "manager" but in reality going nowhere. Stella plays a crummy club circuit, singing songs for oldies for £50 a night - She's never going to be a star because of her parents' short-sighted greed.

1h 15min
August 28, 1984