Season 8
27 episodes · Oct 20, 1988
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- S8E1
Dolebusters
Oct 20, 1988The East Kent Dole Fraud team cracking down on "fiddlers and scroungers".
- S8E2
I Want to Live
Oct 27, 198840mKate Matthews extraordinary fight against cancer to survive, after learning that she has just 12 weeks to live.
- S8E3
The Gypsies Are Coming
Nov 3, 198840mThe impact of 2,500 gypsies and travellers on the sleepy market town of Appleby in Cumbria, which each June the travellers invade for the annual horse fair.
- S8E4
Desirable Dwellings
Nov 10, 198840mLucinda Lambton has photographed houses for 27 years. She conducts a personal and enthusiastic tour around her favourites - some of Britain's oddest, most individual and delightful homes. Lucinda's travels take her to a Hollywood hacienda in Derbyshire, created for a man who banished straight lines; a clairvoyant's bijou residence in the air; a Gothic castle now being built by a ruralist in deepest Cornwall; a haunted Victorian hotchpotch of a place north of the Humber, where the tiles don't match; and a circular confection of great charm in Devon, created by the Misses Parminter.
- S8E5
A Policewoman's Lot
Nov 17, 198840mOut on patrol with the policewomen of the West Midlands Force, revealing the change in their role since the 1975 Sex Discrimination Act.
- S8E6
Making the Grade
Nov 24, 198840mThe inside story of the examinations of the Royal School of Music, following four musicians and their examiner through their rehearsals and preparation, and into the exam. room itself.
- S8E7
Greenfinches
Dec 1, 198840mThree soldiers - all members of the Ulster Defence Regiment, all in the-front line of Northern Ireland's tense security troubles - and all three are women.
- S8E8
Jam Today
Dec 8, 198840mHighlighting the desperation that debt can bring to people's lives.
- S8E9
To Have and to Hold
Jan 5, 198940mThree women who have had to face the break-up of long and seemingly happy marriages, and to being single once again.
- S8E10
The Day I Met the Queen
Jan 12, 198940mMemorable meetings between subjects and their monarch - revealing the special place the Queen holds in the hearts of her subjects.
- S8E11
The Kingdom of Fun
Jan 19, 198940mThe largest leisure and shopping complex in Europe, the Metro Centre in Tynemouth, and its creator John Hall.
- S8E12
Our Darren
Jan 26, 198940mDarren Lillywhite was 17, mischievous and high-spirited. He and his mates were a lively lot, always getting into scrapes around the village of Cranleigh, where they grew up. Darren had owned his prized Vauxhall Astra for just a few weeks. One August evening in 1987 he drove it into a roundabout and was thrown from the car. Now he is paralysed from the neck down and can do nothing for himself. Darren has been at Stoke Mandeville Hospital for ten months, but his family is determined to get him back home. Terry and Marilyn Lillywhite have built a special extension to their house. If Darren makes it, his family, neighbours and friends will all be joining in the celebration. No one can help liking Darren. 'I don't feel bitter about it at all,' he says. 'It's like being born again, really....'
- S8E14
Cairo Vets
Feb 9, 198940mThe Brooke Hospital for Animals in Cairo aims to provide the best veterinary care for the poorest section of the community.
- S8E15
I Like the Girls Who Do
Feb 16, 198940mCelebrates the cartoonist Gerald Scarfe's hero, music-hall comedian Max Millar.
- S8E16
Knickerbockers in Knightsbridge
Feb 23, 198940mThe story of Hill House School and its unique headmaster, Colonel Stuart Townend.
- S8E17
Ghost Train
Mar 2, 198940mA journey by Intercity into the world of the supernatural. Do you believe in ghosts? Helen McCormick does. She found an ancient crucifix in her cellar - and then saw a medieval monk walk past her kitchen window. Ambulanceman Ken Lobley rescued his aunt after a warning from an apparition. Nichola Thompson, aged 13, was reading, looked up, and saw her grandmother - wearing the pink shroud she'd been buried in two years earlier. Rev Jack Richardson investigates spooky Harnham Hall in Northumberland. He blesses the earthly remains of Kate Babington, who died a prisoner at Harnham in 1670. Eddie Burks, a 'clairsentient', is summoned to an RAF base to contact the ghost of an airman. Eerily, he describes how the man died and why he returns. And four nurses spend the night in 'the most haunted house in Britain' - with strange tales to tell the following morning....
- S8E18
Raging Belles
Mar 9, 198940mThe two top women's wrestlers in Britain fight for the most coveted prize, The British Ladies' Championship Belt
- S8E19
By Steam to Sennar Junction
Mar 16, 198940mA dedicated engineer and tough businessman goes from South Wales to the Sudan to rehabilitate Sudan's decaying railways.
- S8E20
Wedding at Easington
Mar 23, 198940mOne in six in the old coal-mining district of Easington is out of work. Tom and Dawn are both unemployed and it is their wedding day. What does the future hold for them?
- S8E21
Violent
Mar 30, 198940mApparently unprovoked and irrational acts of violence. Why do they happen? What are the effects on the victims?
- S8E22
Catwalk
Apr 6, 198940mIt's said that 2,000 dogs and 4,000 cats are destroyed in Britain every day. Celia Hammond was a top fashion model. Now she's so furious about the destruction of healthy animals that she's given up her career, even her personal life, to rescue as many strays as she can. She prowls the wastelands and alleyways of London to save frightened, injured and lost cats. Her ultimate aim is to set up her own low-cost spaying and neutering clinics.
- S8E23
Two Sides of a Street
Apr 20, 198940mA real life soap opera is unfolding in Cardross Street, West London. A Royal Ballet star, a man who owns a share in a race horse, and a peer's daughter now live side by side with old folk who have rented their houses all their lives. Once the street was filled with families. Now it's being taken over and tarted up by the young rich with no children. 'Funeral today - skip tomorrow' is how the locals describe what's happening. Had they been able to afford it, the old timers could have bought their homes for £200. Now unmodernised two-up two-downs with outside loos are snapped up at £150,000. 'For the old people the street is a way of life,' says the Hon Henrietta Roper-Curzon . 'For us it is just a transitory thing. When they leave it's in a hearse. We leave in the removal van'. With John Pitman.
- S8E24
Inside Broadmoor
Apr 27, 198940mThe famous high-security hospital and a new therapeutic regime.
- S8E25
Laid Off
May 4, 198940mFollowing two people, one in the North and one in the South of England, from the time they are made redundant through three months of job-hunting.
- S8E26
London Lighthouse
May 11, 198940mAn insight into the first few months of Britain's first purpose-built AIDS hospice. London Lighthouse is an experiment. The building is striking. The approach to nursing is radical. The project could provide a model for the health care of the future. Beatty King, 26, is one of 15 nurses working at Lighthouse. On night shift, she spends the small hours gently negotiating with Colin, who's desperate to smoke, and sitting with Christopher, who is close to death. The patients appreciate having as much say as possible in how they are looked after. But as relationships develop, emotional pressures increase. Beatty admits, 'I don't think I realised what I was letting myself in for....'.
- S8E27
Who'll Win Jeanette?
May 18, 198940mA young American travels from Tampa to Vermont, inspecting the parents who want to adopt her unborn child - and finally makes her choice.