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Season 6

10 episodes · Jul 3, 1991

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  • S6E1

    Redemption

    Jul 3, 1991

    After 16 years away Stan Peachey returns to his village. His wife still loves him but his sister wants revenge. What was his crime?

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  • S6E2

    Broke

    Jul 10, 1991

    A man and his wife, who are proprietors of a struggling window-covering business, agree to install curtains in an exclusive club patronized by a wealthy friend of theirs. After completing the job, the shop owner has great difficulty collecting payment for the job. His "friend" becomes scarce and Spall finds he has no legal foot to stand on since there is no written record of the informal transaction. With the couple's business floundering due to mounting debts, and their former friend's crass attitude towards their predicament, anger and frustration reach the boiling point.

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  • S6E3

    Events at Drimaghleen

    Jul 17, 1991

    The painful memories of the tragedy that awaited the people of Drimaghleen on 2/11/88 have just begun to fade; Hetty Fortune and her TV documentary team travel there to piece those memories together into a story of horror.

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  • S6E4

    The Fallout Guy

    Jul 24, 1991

    Raymond Gold, a 40-year-old Walter Mitty character from Philadelphia, is recruited to pass secrets of the atom bomb to the Russians in the 1940s. His girlfriend Danica discovers he is a fantasist while the FBI suspect him of spying. His world falls apart, with tragi-comic results.

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  • S6E5

    Murder in Oakland

    Jul 31, 1991

    Oakland, California, is the murder capital of the USA - there were 161 homicides in 1990 in a city the size of Cardiff. Blue and Eric are new additions to the Police Department's five overworked homicide teams. When they investigate a seemingly motiveless prostitute killing, they find themselves drawn into the centre of a fight for survival among Oakland's dangerous drug gangs.

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  • S6E6

    The Hour of the Lynx

    Aug 14, 1991

    A young murderer in a psychiatric institution is given a cat to care for as part of a controlled experiment. He heaps devotion on it and the experiment seems a great success - until there is a baffling outbreak of violence.

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  • S6E7

    Clubland

    Aug 28, 1991

    Sylvie, a Belgian girl living in London, arrives at her local police station. She starts to tell how she was picked up in a nightclub by the handsome Ajay, and the listening DC Judd realises he is onto a most unusual case.

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  • S6E8

    Arise and Go Now

    Sep 4, 1991

    Exploding poets, randy bishops and bungling IRA hoodlums are causing havoc in a small town in Northern Ireland. Kevin, an IRA recruit, and Father Dade, the local priest, try to drive some sanity into their world.

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  • S6E9

    Message to Major

    Sep 11, 1991

    This BBC film written and performed by South African satirist Pieter-Dirk Uys, is a 'video postcard' to the British Prime Minister from one Mrs Evita Bezuidenhout, South African ambassador to the fictitious black homeland of Bapetikosweti. Relishing his opportunities to satirise both the 'new' and the old South Africa, Dirk Uys delivers a lesson in history.

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  • S6E10

    Journey to Knock

    Sep 18, 1991

    Journey to Knock humorously follows three disabled men on their pilgrimage from the North of England to Knock shrine in Co. Mayo.

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