Series 11
27 episodes · Oct 20, 1980
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- S11E1
Pasmore
Oct 21, 198075mColin Pasmore tests his strength against his family ties but finds them stronger than he ever imagined.
- S11E2
C2H5OH
Oct 28, 198075m"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."
- S11E3
The Adventures of Frank: Everybody's Fiddling Something
Nov 4, 198075mWriter-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.
- S11E5
Minor Complications
Nov 18, 198075mKay Gilbert goes into hospital for a minor operation which goes badly wrong. This play tells the story of her fight for compensation.
- S11E6
Number on End
Nov 25, 198075mWhat 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.
- S11E7
Jude
Dec 2, 198075mTwelve-year-old Jude has never met Dick, his father. One Sunday afternoon Dick impulsively engineers a meeting, which has distressing consequences.
- S11E8
The Flipside of Dominick Hide
Dec 9, 198075mDominick 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.
- S11E9
Name for the Day
Dec 16, 198075mClive 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.
- S11E10
Jessie
Dec 23, 198075mIn Victorian times, a nanny cares for a mute boy, who becomes overly attached to her.
- S11E11
Beyond the Pale
Jan 6, 198175mA vacation at a seaside hotel in Ireland changes the lives of four friends.
- S11E12
The Muscle Market
Jan 13, 198175mThe problems of an owner of a building contractor company in Liverpool
- S11E13
A Brush with Mr. Porter on the Road to El Dorado
Jan 20, 198175m"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.
- S11E14
Dear Brutus
Jan 27, 198175m"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.
- S11E15
The Cause
Feb 3, 198175mA 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.
- S11E16
Beloved Enemy
Feb 10, 198175mThe head of a multinational corporation wants to do business with the Soviets
- S11E17
The Kamikaze Ground Staff Reunion Dinner
Feb 17, 198175mA group of men hold a reunion dinner in Tokyo
- S11E18
The Union
Feb 24, 198175mYou 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.
- S11E19
Sorry
Mar 3, 198175mTwo very different women share an office, a common enemy, and a sense of humour.
- S11E20
Shai Mãlã Khani: The Garland
Mar 10, 198175mWhen 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.
- S11E21
The Sin Bin
Mar 17, 198175mSix 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.
- S11E22
Before Water Lillies
Mar 24, 198175mAn evening with the Parent-Teacher Association gets out of hand.
- S11E23
Bavarian Night
Mar 31, 198175mWhen 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.
- S11E24
The Good Time Girls
Apr 7, 198175mNancy 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.
- S11E25
Baby Talk
Apr 14, 198175mIt'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?
- S11E26
A Turn for the Worse
Apr 28, 198175mSoldiers are subjected to a brutal and sadistic kind of psychological training exercise
- S11E27
Psy-Warriors
May 12, 198175mSoldiers are captured and interrogated by terrorists: but is it real or only a sadistic form of psychological training exercise?