Season 7
29 episodes · Oct 31, 1980
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- S7E1
Caught on a Train
Oct 31, 1980Peter boards a train to attend an important business meeting across Europe. His trip is complicated by two women also assigned to his compartment. One is an independent American whom Peter finds attractive. The other is Frau Messner, an extremely particular and demanding older European woman. Between the two of them, they try different aspects of Peter's patience...
- S7E2
Fatal Spring
Nov 7, 1980Using a remarkable blend of dramatic techniques, this study of three English poets – also three courageous soldiers – gradually develops towards their historical and crucial meeting.
- S7E3
The Black Madonna
Nov 14, 198050mLou Parker feels very strongly that she and her husband, Ray, are different from the Farrells and the Ackerleys. With them it's all television. But she and Ray have the local library and The Observer. They keep abreast. They're different.
- S7E5
Grown-Ups
Nov 28, 198095mYoung working class couple Dick and Mandy move into a council house in Canterbury, and find Mr. Butcher, one of their former teachers, living next door. Mandy's unmarried sister, Gloria, is constantly dropping in, and will not take any hints that the couple would prefer to be left alone, until her presence finally goads them to action.
- S7E8
Standing in for Henry
Dec 19, 1980At a Nottingham advertising agency, young graphic designer Graham is recruited as a temporary replacement for the iconic Henry. The agency are desperate to be part of the Swinging Sixties but not without Henry. Can Graham replace him?
- S7E9
Fothergill
Jan 9, 1981John Fothergill, aesthete and scholar, becomes the proprietor of the Spread Eagle, in Thame, Oxfordshire, with the intent of turning it into the most celebrated Inn in England, catering to the brightest lights in London's literati.
- S7E10
One Hundred and Eighty!!!
Jan 16, 1981A darts tournament is put in peril when the players' wives stage a sit-in in the pub.
- S7E11
The Kindness of Mrs. Radcliffe
Jan 23, 1981A day in the life of Mrs Radcliffe, who believes that the advice she so freely gives is done only out of kindness.
- S7E12
A Last Visitor for Mr. Hugh Peter
Jan 30, 1981In prison the night before his execution, Republican preacher Hugh Peter prepares to be hanged, drawn and quartered for treason.
- S7E13
Journal of Bridget Hitler
Feb 6, 1981An Irishwoman married to a German in pre-WWI Liverpool prepares to meet her brother-in-law, a young man named Adolf Hitler.
- S7E14
Days at the Beach
Feb 13, 198190mIn 1920, a trio of British soldiers have to guard an unexploded mine that has washed up on a beach.
- S7E15
Bobby Wants to Meet Me
Feb 20, 1981In 1978, Changes Magazine journalist Neville Morris writes an essay about Bob Dylan called 'A Jewish Massiah'. Dylan's publicist Elle Smith reaches out that The Bard wants to meet him at Earl's Court.
- S7E16
Days
Feb 27, 1981A mother, waiting for a visit through a hospital day, reflects on her life. Dreams haunt her, fantasies seduce her, memories crowd in on her, distorting the drab reality of her day to day existence. Must her daughter follow in her footsteps? How can she find a way to guide her towards a brighter future?
- S7E17
Clapperclaw
Mar 6, 1981VE Night, 1945: In a Yorkshire pub, not everyone is in a mood to celebrate. Lorna Thorpe's 'All-Star' dance band is down two members, the beer has run out, and some influential friends on the city council have booked flights to Buenos Aires.
- S7E18
The Potsdam Quartet
Mar 13, 1981An exploration of the personal and professional conflicts of a string quartet who have been playing together for many years, but are on the point of disintegrating.
- S7E19
Unity
Mar 20, 1981The true story of Unity Mitford who, in the 1930s, moves to Germany, where she befriends Adolf Hitler.
- S7E21
Elizabeth Alone: Part 1
Apr 3, 1981After nineteen years of marriage, three children, and a brief but passionate affair followed by a quick divorce, Elizabeth Aidallbery has to go for an emergency operation. From her bed, she has the leisure to take stock of her life, and frankly, it doesn't look very edifying: there's the 17-year-old daughter who's run off to a commune with her boyfriend; an old hopeless suitor who continues to press his claims; and of course the memory of the havoc caused by the affair. No doubt she could put her life back in order. But need that involve all those people who cause her so much heartache?
- S7E22
Elizabeth Alone: Part 2
Apr 10, 1981After nineteen years of marriage, three children, and a brief but passionate affair followed by a quick divorce, Elizabeth Aidallbery has to go for an emergency operation. From her bed, she has the leisure to take stock of her life, and frankly, it doesn't look very edifying: there's the 17-year-old daughter who's run off to a commune with her boyfriend; an old hopeless suitor who continues to press his claims; and of course the memory of the havoc caused by the affair. No doubt she could put her life back in order. But need that involve all those people who cause her so much heartache?
- S7E23
Elizabeth Alone: Part 3
Apr 17, 1981After nineteen years of marriage, three children, and a brief but passionate affair followed by a quick divorce, Elizabeth Aidallbery has to go for an emergency operation. From her bed, she has the leisure to take stock of her life, and frankly, it doesn't look very edifying: there's the 17-year-old daughter who's run off to a commune with her boyfriend; an old hopeless suitor who continues to press his claims; and of course the memory of the havoc caused by the affair. No doubt she could put her life back in order. But need that involve all those people who cause her so much heartache?
- S7E26
The Day War Broke Out
May 15, 1981Albie Warren and his girlfriend Carla are second on the bill of variety artists and musicians performing to half empty venues. Albie impersonates wartime comic Rob Wilton to people who don't know him. Will he take the chance to top the bill?
- S7E28
Going Gently
Jun 5, 1981Two men sharing a hospital room after their diagnoses of terminal cancer struggle with fear, physical pain, the difficulties of being in hospital, family members unable to cope, loneliness, and their unusual friendship.