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Series 14

21 episodes · Oct 24, 1983

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  • S14E1

    Stan's Last Game

    Oct 25, 198375m

    James Grout and Bert Parnaby are rival chairmen of a northern football club in the run-up to an important cup match. As tempers fray, retiring president Charles Lamb provides a calming voice of sanity.

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  • S14E2

    Young Shoulders

    Feb 14, 198475m

    Cynical teenager Andrew Groves re-evaluates his attitude to life and his parents after his sister dies in a plane crash.

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  • S14E3

    A Coming to Terms for Billy

    Feb 21, 198475m

    When his father comes home to Belfast after more than 2 years in England, conflicts arise with Billy

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  • S14E4

    Z for Zachariah

    Feb 28, 198475m

    After a nuclear holocaust, only a man and a woman survive in a Welsh valley.

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  • S14E5

    Moving on the Edge

    Mar 6, 198475m

    A woman in a state of personal crisis finds it hard to communicate with her husband and family.

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  • S14E6

    Desert of Lies

    Mar 13, 198475m

    An expedition tracing the path of long-lost missionaries meets with tragedy in the Kalahari Desert.

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  • S14E7

    Hard Feelings

    Mar 20, 198475m

    A group of unemployed Oxford drop-outs living in a Brixton commune get their come-uppance by one of them.

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  • S14E8

    Under the Hammer

    Mar 27, 198475m

    Concerning the life of the artist Vincent Van Gogh

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  • S14E9

    King

    Apr 3, 198475m

    A man who has had a good life in England wants to retire to Jamaica, but the celebration with his daughters doesn't go as expected.

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  • S14E10

    Rainy Day Women

    Apr 10, 198475m

    In 1940, during World War II, an officer is sent to investigate rumors of German spies in a sleepy village where various people are the victims of war hysteria

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  • S14E11

    Dog Ends

    Jul 17, 198475m

    In a future society where euthansia is common, a man signs papers to have his father put down

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  • S14E12

    The Groundling and the Kite

    Jul 24, 198475m

    Peter is a songwriter, while his old friend Jimmy is an A and R (Artists and Repertoire) man. But when Jimmy tries to sell one of Peter's songs, Peter is furious. Can the friendship survive?

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  • S14E13

    The Cry

    Jul 31, 198475m

    In 1959 Ulster, a journalist witnesses the beating of a youth

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  • S14E14

    It Could Happen to Anybody

    Aug 14, 198475m

    A long-suffering Glasgow housewife puts up with years of her husband's violence and drunkenness - and then something happens which makes her snap and fight back.

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  • S14E15

    Only Children

    Aug 21, 198475m

    A young woman's comfortable life is turned upside down when she has a baby.

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  • S14E16

    The Amazing Miss Stella Estelle

    Aug 28, 198475m

    Miss Stella Estelle is a cabaret singer in working men's clubs, and she sings songs from the 1960s to support a large and difficult family. But how long can it go on? The backdrop is a family in decay: husband out of work, wife working and still doing the domestics, daughter the singer and hopeful star, son her "manager" but in reality going nowhere. Stella plays a crummy club circuit, singing songs for oldies for £50 a night - She's never going to be a star because of her parents' short-sighted greed.

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  • S14E17

    The Long March

    Nov 20, 198490m

    A woman returns to Belfast after ten years in England and becomes involved in the Maze prison protest.

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  • S14E18

    Punters

    Nov 27, 198475m

    What is the secret of Joey and Spansky's success at the races?

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  • S14E19

    Talk To Me

    Dec 11, 198475m

    Matthew and his wife are deeply suspicious of psychoanalysis. It's not their sort of thing at all.

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  • S14E20

    Bird Fancier

    Jan 15, 198575m
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  • S14E21

    Brigadista

    Feb 5, 198575m

    When best-selling author James Fuller Hayes comes to Glasgow to publicise his personal account of the Spanish Civil War, a surprise reunion with two of his old comrades from the Int Brigade reveals contradictory & devastating information.

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