An evening with the Parent-Teacher Association gets out of hand. Air Date : 24th-Mar-1981

Colin Pasmore tests his strength against his family ties but finds them stronger than he ever imagined. Air Date : 21st-Oct-1980  Read More

"In heaven there is no drama - drama depends on failure and conflict. My trade is a scrutiny of hell. For any proud dramatist his style is his prejudice." Air Date : 28th-Oct-1980  Read More

Writer-director John McGrath deliberately shies away from naturalism in an experiment that mixes blue screen, songs, and characters realising they're acting within a play. This first of two parts sees Frank travel to a hostile London. Air Date : 4th-Nov-1980  Read More

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Kay Gilbert goes into hospital for a minor operation which goes badly wrong. This play tells the story of her fight for compensation. Air Date : 18th-Nov-1980  Read More

What could Steve Jackson's documentary film expose that must be concealed from the African leaders meeting in Brussels? Steve Jackson is on the run and the wrong decision could prove fatal. Air Date : 25th-Nov-1980  Read More

Twelve-year-old Jude has never met Dick, his father. One Sunday afternoon Dick impulsively engineers a meeting, which has distressing consequences. Air Date : 2nd-Dec-1980  Read More

Dominick Hide, a time traveller from London in the year 2130, is studying the city's transport system of 1980. Breaking the rules, he lands his craft to seek out his great-grandfather. Compared to his anaesthetised home, 80s London is filthy and polluted...and yet...it exudes an excitement that soon draws him in. Air Date : 9th-Dec-1980  Read More

Clive admits himself to a psychiatric hospital after undergoing a breakdown. His wife wants him back home, but in order for Clive to be released, he has to want to be cured. Air Date : 16th-Dec-1980  Read More

In Victorian times, a nanny cares for a mute boy, who becomes overly attached to her. Air Date : 23rd-Dec-1980  Read More

A vacation at a seaside hotel in Ireland changes the lives of four friends. Air Date : 6th-Jan-1981  Read More

The problems of an owner of a building contractor company in Liverpool Air Date : 13th-Jan-1981  Read More

"They're nice affable gobblers and we're in the nice affable gobbling business." Tom and Gwen soon find that their gastronomical retreat from the rat race is anything but an escape when the Porters come to dine. Air Date : 20th-Jan-1981  Read More

"They say that in the wood you get what nearly everybody here is longing for - a second chance." J. M. Barrie's fantasy play, depicting alternative realities for its characters and their eventual return to real life. Air Date : 27th-Jan-1981  Read More

A confused industrial dispute at a London hospital triggers off in trade unionist George Harley's mind memories of his days fighting in the Spanish Civil War, when the issues seemed so much clearer. Air Date : 3rd-Feb-1981  Read More

The head of a multinational corporation wants to do business with the Soviets Air Date : 10th-Feb-1981  Read More

A group of men hold a reunion dinner in Tokyo Air Date : 17th-Feb-1981  Read More

You know the nuts and bolts of our policy? To penetrate the unions. To use all sorts of stratagems, manoeuvres, illegal measures, evasions, subterfuges, to carry on Communist activities inside them at all cost. Air Date : 24th-Feb-1981  Read More

Two very different women share an office, a common enemy, and a sense of humour. Air Date : 3rd-Mar-1981  Read More

When her 17-year-old son Roy falls in love with a Muslim girl, and a Bangladeshi butcher seeks help from her husband Raji, Leela realizes that the tears and romance of Indian cinema are closer to her own life than she has ever imagined. Air Date : 10th-Mar-1981  Read More

Six lifers living in an experimental self-rehabilitation unit attached to an ordinary prison participate in a group therapy session. All of them have spent many years in prison and have little chance of ever getting out. Air Date : 17th-Mar-1981  Read More

An evening with the Parent-Teacher Association gets out of hand. Air Date : 24th-Mar-1981  Read More

When the dynamic young head-master of St Peter's Primary School decides to liven up a parents' fund-raising social by hiring a Bavarian band, he little suspects the hidden passions that are about to be unleashed. Air Date : 31st-Mar-1981  Read More

Nancy and Ella are two bored housewives starved of affection when their husbands are away on the oil rigs. The rules are simple: have some fun, just make sure nobody finds out, and you don't get emotionally involved. Air Date : 7th-Apr-1981  Read More

It's such a simple, natural thing to have a baby, thinks Mary. But she and husband Paul are preoccupied with their careers. Can their young neighbour Tessa help - or are the emotions around a new baby more complex than anyone had expected? Air Date : 14th-Apr-1981  Read More

Soldiers are subjected to a brutal and sadistic kind of psychological training exercise Air Date : 28th-Apr-1981  Read More

Soldiers are captured and interrogated by terrorists: but is it real or only a sadistic form of psychological training exercise? Air Date : 12th-May-1981  Read More