Season 6
31 episodes · Nov 7, 1979
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- S6E1
School Play
Nov 7, 1979A play about the horrors of life at an English public school - with all the schoolboys played by adults.
- S6E2
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
Nov 14, 1979A dissident, Alexander, has been pronounced insane by the authorities (although he isn't), and finds himself sharing a cell with a genuine mental patient, Ivanov.
- S6E3
The Brylcreem Boys
Nov 21, 1979Cpl. George Hunn's sentry post is knocked over and he wakes to find he is suffering from frost bite of the face. Sent to hospital he is put on a ward with aircrew who have mental issues. He is trapped reenacting their missions at night.
- S6E5
Home Movies
Dec 5, 1979Keith and Alec have been making holiday movies, together for 25 years. Alec suddenly spots a moment between wife Sybil and Keith. He realises daughter Katie is actually Keith's and she is in a sexual relationship with her 'brother' John.
- S6E7
Speed King
Dec 19, 1979In 1935, Sir Malcolm Campbell's obsession is to win the World's Land Speed Record in his car Bluebird. Speed King is about the man, the car, and the ruthless, but irresistible, public ambition of a world hero.
- S6E8
Pews
Jan 12, 1980Set in a north country synagogue, a group of Jewish men have to organise a shiva, however, not having the required number of their faith, resort to recruiting George, a 'non-Jew', to make up the numbers.
- S6E9
Gentle Folk
Jan 19, 198075mAn Edwardian house party given by a Fabian woman, her business-man husband and assorted guests from politics and the Arts—including a young man prone to disturbing premonitions.
- S6E10
Trouble with Gregory
Jan 23, 1980Gregory has troubles enough when Ella moves him out and sets him up for a job with the radio. Suspicions of infidelity can make the world a disturbing place. But then he still has to meet the new neighbours...
- S6E11
Lifelike
Jan 26, 1980A comprehensive school is praised for its authenticity, but one schoolboy does not agree with this assessment.
- S6E12
The Enigma
Feb 9, 1980An upper-class young man has rejected his affluent background, but, when a crisis comes, reverts to type pretty quickly.
- S6E13
Hesther for Example
Feb 16, 1980Cousin, W. Clifford Mill, ran a dirty postcard business; which brings Paul to the country in search of a profitable afternoon. Hesther knows the value of most things and, when evening falls, she turns his visit to her own advantage.
- S6E14
The Best of Friends
Mar 8, 1980What is friendship? Why do two grown men behave like egomaniac children or flustered prima donnas? And when they meet unexpectedly after ten years, how will things be?
- S6E15
In Hiding
Mar 15, 1980A teenager learns about life and death while staying with his aunt during the school holidays.
- S6E16
Rottingdean
Mar 22, 1980Mother is manic, Father frustrated. Son sees himself as quite an operator. Daughter wants to change the dreary world of Jubilee-year England. The day has come. Back to Rottingdean... if all goes smoothly.
- S6E19
Mary's Wife
May 2, 1980A married transvestite comes to terms with their true gender identity.
- S6E20
Games Without Frontiers
May 9, 1980Nobody goes to Amsterdam to wander about. It's either the Rijksmuseum or the red-light district. On the boat going home Clive and Stewart admit to not having spent long in the museums – so what did they get up to in Amsterdam?
- S6E21
The Unborn
May 16, 1980A physicist has visions of his unborn baby – it turns out that the child will grow up to become a Hitler-like dictator responsible for World War III.
- S6E29
Hallelujah, Mary Plum
Jul 13, 1980A talented, independent artist lives by the sea with her daughter. As summer approaches, she faces two threats to her way of life: the local doctor who is in love with her and her unhappy sister who comes to stay.
- S6E30
Dalhousie's Luck
Aug 3, 1980Our gamble is over, Dalhousie. You'll walk at dawn tomorrow as agreed, but in case you've no mind to return, there's one fact might persuade you. On what you do hangs not only your life but hers .
- S6E31
An Ordered Life
Aug 10, 1980German composer Anton Webern survives Naziism only to be shot by an American GI in the closing days of WWII. His son, against his father's wishes, joins the Wehrmacht and is killed in a railway accident in 1943.