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Series 13

18 episodes · Oct 18, 1982

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  • S13E1

    Soft Targets

    Oct 19, 198275m

    A story about a homesick Russian journalist in London at the end of the cold war

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  • S13E2

    Three Minute Heroes

    Oct 26, 198275m

    Out on the streets, young people looking for fun. They come together at nights to listen to their music. For as long as the song lasts, they're heroes. Three minute heroes.

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  • S13E3

    The Remainder Man

    Nov 2, 198275m

    Jack's obsession with the possibility of nuclear war sees him usher his family down into his home made fall out shelter after a nuclear strike hits the country. Will their time in confinement draw them together or push them apart?

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  • S13E4

    Intensive Care

    Nov 9, 198275m

    A man holds a lonely vigil at the bedside of his dying father.

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  • S13E5

    A Mother Like Him

    Nov 16, 198275m

    A family of five orphaned children are going to be split up into different homes. What will happen if the eldest is officially made their foster parent?

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  • S13E6

    John David

    Nov 23, 198275m

    After giving birth to a Down's Syndrome baby, Judith decides she doesn't want to keep him. Obliged to register the birth she arbitrarily chooses John David as the name. A few months later she learns the baby has died.

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  • S13E7

    Aliens

    Nov 30, 198275m

    In June 1940 Italy entered the war. With Britain threatened by a German invasion thousands of Italians were seized and thrown into security camps, with other friendly aliens - and Nazis.

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  • S13E8

    Another Flip for Dominick

    Dec 14, 198275m

    Two years after his journey to the past, Dominick Hide has been promoted to instructor and is no longer a time traveller. Then one of his pupils, Pyrus Bonnington, goes missing during a visit to 1982 London. Hide must track him down and prevent Pyrus damaging the past, but will the temptation to re-visit his own history be too strong to resist?

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  • S13E9

    Last Love

    Mar 1, 198375m

    Annabel, an upper-middle-class widow, falls in love with Jack, a self-made man of humble origins. Her grown-up children do not approve.

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  • S13E10

    Gates of Gold

    Mar 8, 198375m

    In 1959 County Antrim, two traveling evangelists help a mentally retarded teenager

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  • S13E11

    Wayne and Albert

    Mar 15, 198375m

    Wayne goes to live with his grandfather Albert. Initial generation gap hostilities between them are eventually overcome as a mutual respect develops through a their shared love of carpentry and snooker.

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  • S13E12

    Atlantis

    Mar 22, 198375m

    Goff and Lytton have a dream - a canal boat of their own on which to cruise the inland waterways: The reality is the boatyard of Josh Adkins and a rusting hulk called Atlantis.

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  • S13E13

    The Last Term

    Apr 5, 198375m

    Devon 1940. The boys of the local public school are alerted after a German parachute drop and as members of the Local Defence Volunteers they prepare to put their youthful enthusiasm for war into practice.

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  • S13E14

    Reluctant Chickens

    Apr 12, 198375m

    Malcolm is a GP wrestling with ideas of retirement, while his wife Jo is a frustrated, would-be novelist. Together they dream of a more contented life, but are hampered by the arrested development of their children who won't leave home.

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  • S13E15

    Shall I Be Mother?

    Apr 19, 198375m

    Susan and Jenny are aged 13 and 14 and in care. Jenny's mother has died, Susan hasn't seen hers for years Both influence the close, stormy relationship that develops between the two girls.

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  • S13E16

    The Falklands Factor

    Apr 26, 198375m

    The 18th century writer Samuel Johnson writes a political pamphlet protesting the British going to war with Spain after the 1790 invasion of the Falkland Islands.

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  • S13E17

    A Matter of Choice for Billy

    May 10, 198375m

    When his father leaves Belfast to seek work in England, a young man looks after his sister

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  • S13E18

    Floating Off

    Aug 24, 198375m

    A businessman tries to keep his son from finding out about an unconventional deal he and his secretary are making with a merchant bank.

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