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Season 11

8 episodes · Sep 28, 1975

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  • S11E1

    Chips with Everything

    Sep 28, 1975

    Pip is a socialist who has seen the squalor of the East End, typified by greasy cafés offering 'chips with everything'. Pip is also the only privately-educated recruit in a draft of other National Service recruits. He's tried to buck the system by not applying for an officer's commission.

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  • The Little Minister
    S11E2

    The Little Minister

    Nov 2, 1975102m

    In rural 1840s Scotland, Gavin Dishart arrives to become the new 'little minister' of Thrums's Auld Licht church. He meets a mysterious young gypsy girl in the dens and to his horror Babbie draws him into her escape from the soldiers after she incites a Luddite riot. But unknown to Gavin, Babbie is more than she seems, and they must overcome her secret, the villagers' fears of her, and--worst of all--Gavin's devotion to his mother's sensibilities, before they can openly declare their love.

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  • S11E3

    Love's Labour's Lost

    Dec 14, 1975120m

    A scholarly king and his three companions swear off the society of women for three years, only to have a diplomatic visit from a French princess and her three ladies-in-waiting thwart their intentions.

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  • S11E4

    When We Are Married

    Dec 29, 197575m

    At the turn of the 20th century, a set of long-married couples discover that due to a bureaucratic quirk they have never actually been married.

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  • S11E5

    Trilby

    Jan 24, 1976

    Trilby, a young Irish girl in Paris, falls under the influence of the sinister hypnotist Svengali.

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  • S11E6

    Loyalties

    Feb 28, 1976
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  • S11E7

    The Chester Mystery Cycle

    Apr 18, 197690m

    A quartet of mystery plays originally based in Chester.

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  • French Without Tears
    S11E8

    French Without Tears

    May 16, 197694m

    The romantic and comic adventures of a quintet of young Englishmen in France, on a course to learn the language.

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