Series 8
18 episodes · Oct 17, 1977
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- S8E1
Stronger than the Sun
Oct 18, 197775mA worker discovers a radioactive leak at the nuclear power plant where she works and tries to make it public knowledge.
- S8E2
Come the Revolution
Oct 25, 197775mMike 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?
S8E3Abigail's Party
Nov 1, 197775mComedy 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 Beverly plies her guests with alcohol as Sue becomes increasingly withdrawn and embarrassed by the pretentious goings-on.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.
- S8E4
Oy Vay Maria
Nov 8, 197775mThe story of the romance between a Jewish boy and an Irish Catholic girl
- S8E5
Nipper
Nov 15, 197775mTeenager 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.
- 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!"
- S8E7
The Mayor's Charity
Nov 29, 197775mOlive 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.
- S8E8
Catchpenny Twist
Dec 6, 197775mThree schoolteachers in Belfast give up teaching to become singers/songwriters.
- 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."
- 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!"
- S8E11
Scully's New Year's Eve
Jan 3, 197875mA Liverpool teenager has a hectic night out on New Year's Eve.
- S8E12
Licking Hitler
Jan 10, 197875mDuring World War II, a young woman joins the propaganda department and makes radio broadcasts to Germany from a British country house.
- S8E13
Red Shift
Jan 17, 197875mA stone axehead links three couples living at different times in the same place in Wales.
- S8E15
Destiny
Jan 31, 197875mA story dealing with racial tensions and fascism during a by-election in a West Midlands town
- S8E16
Our Day Out
Feb 7, 197875mWhen a teacher takes a group of troubled school children on a school trip to Conwy in Wales, the children understand life outside of Liverpool.
- S8E18
The Legion Hall Bombing
Aug 22, 197875mThe story of the trial of Willie Gallagher, convicted of bombing the Strabane British Legion Hall in 1976.