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Series 11

27 episodes · Oct 20, 1980

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  • S11E1

    Pasmore

    Oct 21, 198075m

    Colin Pasmore tests his strength against his family ties but finds them stronger than he ever imagined.

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  • 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."

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  • S11E3

    The Adventures of Frank: Everybody's Fiddling Something

    Nov 4, 198075m

    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.

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  • S11E4

    The Adventures of Frank: Seeds of Ice

    Nov 11, 198075m
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  • S11E5

    Minor Complications

    Nov 18, 198075m

    Kay Gilbert goes into hospital for a minor operation which goes badly wrong. This play tells the story of her fight for compensation.

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  • S11E6

    Number on End

    Nov 25, 198075m

    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.

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  • S11E7

    Jude

    Dec 2, 198075m

    Twelve-year-old Jude has never met Dick, his father. One Sunday afternoon Dick impulsively engineers a meeting, which has distressing consequences.

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  • S11E8

    The Flipside of Dominick Hide

    Dec 9, 198075m

    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.

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  • S11E9

    Name for the Day

    Dec 16, 198075m

    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.

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  • S11E10

    Jessie

    Dec 23, 198075m

    In Victorian times, a nanny cares for a mute boy, who becomes overly attached to her.

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  • S11E11

    Beyond the Pale

    Jan 6, 198175m

    A vacation at a seaside hotel in Ireland changes the lives of four friends.

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  • S11E12

    The Muscle Market

    Jan 13, 198175m

    The problems of an owner of a building contractor company in Liverpool

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • S11E15

    The Cause

    Feb 3, 198175m

    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.

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  • S11E16

    Beloved Enemy

    Feb 10, 198175m

    The head of a multinational corporation wants to do business with the Soviets

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  • S11E17

    The Kamikaze Ground Staff Reunion Dinner

    Feb 17, 198175m

    A group of men hold a reunion dinner in Tokyo

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  • S11E18

    The Union

    Feb 24, 198175m

    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.

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  • S11E19

    Sorry

    Mar 3, 198175m

    Two very different women share an office, a common enemy, and a sense of humour.

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  • S11E20

    Shai Mãlã Khani: The Garland

    Mar 10, 198175m

    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.

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  • S11E21

    The Sin Bin

    Mar 17, 198175m

    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.

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  • S11E22

    Before Water Lillies

    Mar 24, 198175m

    An evening with the Parent-Teacher Association gets out of hand.

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  • S11E23

    Bavarian Night

    Mar 31, 198175m

    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.

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  • S11E24

    The Good Time Girls

    Apr 7, 198175m

    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.

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  • S11E25

    Baby Talk

    Apr 14, 198175m

    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?

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  • S11E26

    A Turn for the Worse

    Apr 28, 198175m

    Soldiers are subjected to a brutal and sadistic kind of psychological training exercise

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  • S11E27

    Psy-Warriors

    May 12, 198175m

    Soldiers are captured and interrogated by terrorists: but is it real or only a sadistic form of psychological training exercise?

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