Series 2
19 episodes · Oct 13, 1971
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S2E1Traitor
Oct 14, 197175mA British aristocrat turned Russian spy is visited in Moscow by Western journalists
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Edna, the Inebriate Woman
Oct 21, 197175mEdna, the Inebriate Woman is a British television drama written by Jeremy Sandford which was transmitted by the BBC as part of the Play for Today series on 21 October 1971. Directed by Ted Kotcheff, Irene Shubik produced it. The play deals with an elderly woman, Edna, who wanders through life in an alcoholic haze without a home, a job or any money. A rambling, pathetic yet defiant woman, Edna sleeps rough and begs for food and shelter and the drama follows her progress as she moves from hostel to hostel, going to a psychiatric ward and then prison along the way. Jeremy Sandford, who had previously written Cathy Come Home, researched the play by living rough himself for two weeks. A great deal of the dialogue and the incidents in the play come from the book, 'Down and Out in Britain' published by Jeremy Sandford in 1971; although the majority of the speakers in the book are male, Jeremy Sandford puts much of their speech into the mouth of the female character. The film features the only notable acting role of British actor Vivian MacKerrell, the real-life inspiration for the character Withnail in Withnail and I. At the 1972 British Academy Television Awards, the play won the Best Drama Production category, with Patricia Hayes receiving the award for Best Actress.
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Evelyn
Oct 28, 197175mFrank is worried that he's over the hill when he reaches his 38th birthday. Conversations with his wife, lover and best friend do nothing to allay his concerns.
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O Fat White Woman
Nov 4, 197175mThe wife of a headmaster discovers that he has been physically abusing his students
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Thank You Very Much
Nov 11, 197175mA social satire in which advertisers realise that having a blind beggar as the public face of charities would help make them seem more appealing to donors.
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Skin Deep
Nov 25, 197175mAn awkward relationship develops between the families of a trade unionist and the regional manager when the son of the former wins a university scholarship from their employer.
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Pal
Dec 2, 197175mTwo sworn enemies, one black and the other white, are forced to confront their prejudices when they are forced together by circumstance.
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The Pigeon Fancier
Dec 9, 197175mA retired miner devotes his waking hours to his racing pigeons.
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Still Waters
Jan 13, 197275mA marriage can be lonely when the children have left home, as Nelson and Maud find out. Maud leaves in the middle of an unloving picnic, and Nelson follows - both sharing their stories with a series of strangers.
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Stocker's Copper
Jan 20, 197275mIn Cornwall, just before World War I, a striking miner befriends a cop
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The House on Highbury Hill
Jan 27, 197275mA married couple move into the house on Highbury Hill and find some eccentric neighbours.
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In the Beautiful Caribbean
Feb 3, 197275mA story about unemployment and the Black Movement in Jamaica
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Ackerman, Dougall and Harker
Feb 10, 197275mA salesman learns a few lessons from the locals when he goes to Yorkshire for a business course
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Cows
Feb 24, 197275mA social worker tries to help a painfully shy young man and takes him for a visit to a country farm.