Series 12
22 episodes · Oct 19, 1981
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- S12E1
Country
Oct 20, 198175mThe story of the disintegration of an aristocratic country estate after World War II
- S12E2
London Is Drowning
Oct 27, 198175mA docudrama about what would happen if London was hit by severe flooding
- S12E3
A Room for the Winter
Nov 3, 198175mJames, an expatriate South African anti-apartheid fighter, deals with his nightmares and his complaining landlady in a run-down area of London, while dreaming of his lover Stephen, left behind.
- S12E4
No Visible Scar
Nov 17, 198175mA nurse is subjected to an interrogation after giving medical treatment to a terrorist leader.
- S12E5
Iris in the Traffic, Ruby in the Rain
Nov 24, 198175mIn Belfast, Ruby has a cold and is caught in the rain while Iris is looking for work and gets caught in traffic
- S12E6
Protest
Dec 1, 198175mIn an adaptation of Václav Havel's play, a dissident, newly released from prison for political reasons, attempts to get his well-connected friend to sign a protest. In this one man play, both the roles are played by Nigel Hawthorne.
- S12E7
United Kingdom
Dec 8, 198175mTwo men on a local council fight the system when forced with massive spending cuts.
- S12E8
PQ17
Dec 15, 198175mDuring World War II, a British officer is ordered to abandon a Russian convoy.
- S12E9
The Factory
Dec 22, 198175mA manager, a foreman, and two workers are all that remains of a factory yet labor relations stay the same
- S12E10
England's Green and Pleasant Land
Jan 5, 198275mA planning decision must be made, and the motorway extension must go through on either the Golf Course or the Allotments - will the greens survive or the peasant lands?
- S12E11
A Cotswold Death
Jan 12, 198275mA police inspector investigates the murder of an Arab sheik who had become a village's Lord of the Manor.
- S12E12
Under the Skin
Jan 19, 198275mThree women involved in different ways in the women's movement.
- S12E13
Commitments
Jan 26, 198275mPolitics and relationships during the last years of the Heath government
- S12E14
Life After Death
Feb 2, 198275mMeg: We were so close, we loved each other, we made a whole together. I feel cut in half.
- S12E15
The Silly Season
Feb 9, 198275mMalcolm goes through life hating the mundanity of his existence as a factory worker and an unloved husband. But when students take up summer jobs at the factory, it reawakens both his passion for political feeling and romantic urges.
S12E16Too Late to Talk to Billy
Feb 16, 198275mA family in Belfast deals with life after the death of the mother from cancer
- S12E17
Willie's Last Stand
Feb 23, 198275mWillie and his friends notice the passage of time around them, and how society is changing as their marriages stagnate. Can Willie prove to himself that he still has it, by being able to cheat on his wife just once?
- S12E18
Tishoo
Mar 9, 198275mFrank has dedicated 19 years to researching a cure for the common cold, and is almost ready to publish a paper. Yet budget cuts and his own inability to form real relationships with those around him threaten to derail the project.
- S12E19
Home Sweet Home
Mar 16, 198275mHome Sweet Home is a 1982 television film devised and directed by Mike Leigh, for BBC TV, 'about postmen, parenthood, social workers and sex.' It was Leigh's second collaboration with Play for Today producer Louis Marks, and cinematographer Remi Adefarasin, and with composer Carl Davis - the music score featured a quartet of basses -. It stars Timothy Spall, here working with Leigh for the first time, Eric Richard, Tim Barker, Kay Stonham, Su Elliot, Frances Barber, Sheila Kelley, and Lorraine Brunning. It was first broadcast on 16 March 1982. The film was shot on location in Hitchin, Hertfordshire. 90 minutes.
- S12E20
A Sudden Wrench
Mar 23, 198275m"My life is over - and I just didn't notice it passing." A call to a radio helpline leads to depressed housewife Christine finding a new direction in life.
- S12E21
Eve Set the Balls of Corruption Going
Mar 30, 198275mAdolescents will always be obsessed by the same old subject, even when they are educated by nuns. Six ex-Classmates meet for the first time in 12 years and hilarious memories change into highly emotional situations.
- S12E22
Whistling Wally
Apr 6, 198275mWhile Wally was happy there wasn't much wrong with the world, and pints seemed a small price to pay for what he gave us. But don't forget what we gave him. We gave him the knowledge he was important, at least to us.