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Series 8

18 episodes · Oct 17, 1977

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  • S8E1

    Stronger than the Sun

    Oct 18, 197775m

    A worker discovers a radioactive leak at the nuclear power plant where she works and tries to make it public knowledge.

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  • S8E2

    Come the Revolution

    Oct 25, 197775m

    Mike and his commune have a performance of their musical theatre "Diver" at the local pub, and ITV's Beth Bailey is coming along to see it. But will Beth's visions for the play as an incitement to revolution please everyone?

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  • Abigail's Party
    S8E3

    Abigail's Party

    Nov 1, 197775m

    Comedy of manners focusing on the bourgeois affectation and sexual frustration of a young married couple. Abigail's mother Sue is invited to take refuge from her teenage daughter's party with a neighbouring couple, Beverly and Laurence. They have also invited Angela and Tony, new arrivals in the street. Beverly plies her guests with alcohol as Sue becomes increasingly withdrawn and embarrassed by the pretentious goings-on. Slowly, marital tensions emerge and the evening is breaking up in disarray.

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  • S8E4

    Oy Vay Maria

    Nov 8, 197775m

    The story of the romance between a Jewish boy and an Irish Catholic girl

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  • S8E5

    Nipper

    Nov 15, 197775m

    Teenager Jimmy's life begins to unravel after the death of his father. With his mother promiscuous and his new stepfather and stepbrother difficult to get along with, he begins to fall into a cycle of petty crime and self harm.

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  • S8E6

    One Day at a Time

    Nov 22, 197775m

    "People coming to their first AA meeting, prosperous people, sometimes, accustomed to the best. They look round the places where we meet, and you can see them thinking: what am I doing here? I owe my life to these rooms!"

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  • S8E7

    The Mayor's Charity

    Nov 29, 197775m

    Olive Major is determined that her year of office as Mayor will be a happy and successful one. But her appointment of Ex-Warrant Officer Higham as Attendant and Mace-bearer causes the storm-clouds to gather over Medburgh Town Hall.

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  • S8E8

    Catchpenny Twist

    Dec 6, 197775m

    Three schoolteachers in Belfast give up teaching to become singers/songwriters.

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  • S8E9

    Charades

    Dec 13, 197775m

    "We've just got to get it right. It'll be our little secret. When all the other servants have gone out, we'll play this little game to amuse ourselves. A sort of private charade."

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  • S8E10

    The Thin End of the Wedge

    Dec 20, 197775m

    "Five days of darkness then. Unless you get it together we will have five days of darkness. And on the sixth day you will say, let there be light, and no doubt it'll be such an effort that on the seventh day you'll have to rest!"

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  • S8E11

    Scully's New Year's Eve

    Jan 3, 197875m

    A Liverpool teenager has a hectic night out on New Year's Eve.

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  • S8E12

    Licking Hitler

    Jan 10, 197875m

    During World War II, a young woman joins the propaganda department and makes radio broadcasts to Germany from a British country house.

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  • S8E13

    Red Shift

    Jan 17, 197875m

    A stone axehead links three couples living at different times in the same place in Wales.

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  • S8E14

    The Spongers

    Jan 24, 197875m

    The story of a single mother of four living on welfare

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  • S8E15

    Destiny

    Jan 31, 197875m

    A story dealing with racial tensions and fascism during a by-election in a West Midlands town

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  • S8E16

    Our Day Out

    Feb 7, 197875m

    When a teacher takes a group of troubled school children on a school trip to Conwy in Wales, the children understand life outside of Liverpool.

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  • S8E17

    The After-Dinner Joke

    Feb 14, 197875m

    The story of a well-meaning charity worker

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  • S8E18

    The Legion Hall Bombing

    Aug 22, 197875m

    The story of the trial of Willie Gallagher, convicted of bombing the Strabane British Legion Hall in 1976.

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