Series 9
21 episodes · Oct 16, 1978
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- S9E1
Nina
Oct 17, 197875mThe story of two Soviet dissidents living in London and slowly coming apart under the strain of his drinking and her enforced separation from her child
- S9E2
Victims of Apartheid
Oct 24, 197875mGeorge, a black South African, finds it hard to settle down in London after his experiences in South Africa.
- S9E3
A Touch of the Tiny Hacketts
Oct 31, 197875mA young man is declared a hero when he catches a burglar until it's discovered that the burglar is a dwarf.
- S9E4
Dinner at the Sporting Club
Nov 7, 197875mA story about young boxers whose fighting provides entertainment for diners at a sporting club
- S9E5
Donal and Sally
Nov 14, 197875mAdolescent love can be difficult at the best of times, but Donal and Sally have special problems - problems which alarm their families and the instructors at Strathvale Centre.
- S9E6
Sorry
Nov 21, 197875mConsists of two plays ""Audience"" and ""Private View"" about a brewery worker and writer who incurs the wrath of the autocratic government
- S9E7
Butterflies Don't Count
Nov 28, 197875m"Whether priest or thespian, never once let yourself doubt that the role you're playing is real. Lead your little flock from childhood to the grave via God's sweet sacraments and let no doubts intrude - ever."
- S9E8
Soldiers Talking Cleanly
Dec 5, 197875mA freelance TV presenter has been hired by the BBC to film a documentary about the British army stationed in Germany. Unfortunately the budget is so low he is only allowed to film soldiers talking, and all bad language must be censored.
- S9E9
One Bummer Newsday
Dec 12, 197875mWhat happens to provincial journalists when there's nothing in the news and they have a paper to fill?
- S9E10
The Out of Town Boys
Jan 2, 197975m"This could be a bit special, Maggie. This could be the first case of an office block falling down during the topping-out party."
- S9E11
Vampires
Jan 9, 197975mThree boys watch horror films on late night TV and see a man in a local cemetery whom they believe to be a vampire.
- S9E12
The Chief Mourner
Jan 16, 197975mFor a successful man with public responsibilities Alan Berry is strangely reluctant to help the police when his wife is murdered.
- S9E13
Waterloo Sunset
Jan 23, 197975mA young man and an old woman try to fit in when their neighborhood goes West Indian
S9E14Blue Remembered Hills
Jan 30, 197975mThe play activities of seven children living in the countryside during the summer of 1943 end in tragedy; the children were played by adults in childrens clothing. The title is taken from A.E. Housman's 1896 poem: "Into my heart an air that kills; From yon far country blows; What are those blue remembered hills..." It's 1943 on a summer's afternoon and 7 children play in the fields & woods of old England. The children's roles are all played by adults to act as "A magnifying glass to show what it's like to be a child." "When we dream of childhood," said Dennis Potter, "we take our present selves with us. It is not the adult world writ small; childhood is the adult world writ large." Since Potter viewed childhood as "adult society without all the conventions and the polite forms which overlay it," he repeated the device he had introduced 14 years earlier (in "Stand Up, Nigel Barton"); children's roles were cast with adult actors in this naturalistic memory drama of a "golden day" that turns to tragedy. On a sunny, summer afternoon in bucolic England of 1943, seven West Country children (two girls, five boys) play in the Forest of Dean. Their games and spontaneous actions (continuous and in real time) reflect their awareness of WWII, but no adults are present to intrude. As the group moves through the woods and back to the grassy hills, their words and actions illustrate how "childhood is not transparent with innocence." When the two girls push a pram into a barn to play house, the casting concept is heightened, doubling back on itself in a remarkable moment: adults are suddenly seen to be acting as children who are pretending to be adults, and lines from Housman echo across the years: "That is the land of lost content/I see it shining plain/The happy highways where I went/And cannot come again."
- S9E15
Who's Who
Feb 6, 197975mA story about a dinner party given by the managers and employees of a brokerage house
- S9E16
The Last Window Cleaner
Feb 13, 197975mThe Irish troubles as seen by residents of a boarding house called ""The Crumlin View""
- S9E17
Ploughman's Share
Feb 27, 197975m"Ploughman. Nobody calls you that. You're a has-been. Your head and heart went into a museum wi' that lot you keep in there. Face it: you're redundant."
- S9E18
Degree of Uncertainty
Mar 6, 197975m"I'm 37 years old, remember? I'm not a dead-pan, genned-up, discreetly nymphomaniac ex-head-girl like the majority of your female students. I'm an innocent. I'm vulnerable."
- S9E19
Light
Mar 13, 197975mA village in Cheshire. A deserted cinema. A poet murdered by Stalin. A blown fuse. Victor Silvester. Pickets on trial. Trimmers and fishwires.