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Series 4

11 episodes · Jan 9, 1988

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  • S4E1

    The Vision

    Jan 9, 1988

    Veteran broadcaster James Marriner is persuaded to front a new big budget national family TV channel. But he begins to suspect that the channel is a front for something much more sinister and political.

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  • S4E2

    Dead Lucky

    Jan 17, 1988

    Martin Urban, a young accountant, is gay but unwilling to own up to this fact because he desperately wants to be the ideal son for his parents. When he wins a fortune on the football pools, he decides to give half of it away to deserving people. But he neglects to include his friend Tim Sage, who filled in the coupon for him and really needs the money. Perhaps Martin doesn't acknowledge Tim because Martin is strongly sexually attracted to him. Tim's revenge upon Martin succeeds beyond his wildest dreams, setting in motion a chain of events leading to a tragic climax

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  • Sweet As You Are
    S4E3

    Sweet As You Are

    Jan 24, 1988

    A lecturer has an extra-marital one night stand and contracts HIV. The movie shows how he tells his wife and the way in which she is forced to cope with his infidelity and the fact he has put her in danger of contracting the disease herself.

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  • S4E4

    Stanley Spencer

    Jan 31, 1988

    The controversial English artist Stanley Spencer scandalised the art world when he painted the Resurrection taking place in the churchyard of Cookham, his home village by the River Thames; and further scandalised the village when he decided that to nourish his imagination, he needed two wives.

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  • S4E5

    Border

    Feb 7, 1988

    Czechoslovakia, 1952. For some, life under the post-war Stalinist regime is hardly worth living and although the escape route to the West is almost suicide, the rewards - prosperity, political freedom, even luxury - make it a risk worth taking.

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  • S4E6

    Love Birds

    Mar 6, 1988

    Barbara and Naseem are in the same hospital, having babies. They make friends. But the celebrations of their husbands, Kenny and Quereshi, 'Jimmy', lead to a headlong chase, with crazy mix-ups, collisions and brushes with the law.

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  • S4E7

    Shadow On The Earth

    Mar 13, 1988

    Two brothers growing up in a small Scottish mining town become convinced the albino man living in their street is an alien. Influenced by science fiction films and the religious bigotry around them, they begin to persecute him, until one day actually get to know him.

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  • S4E8

    Reasonable Force

    Mar 27, 1988

    In times of civil unrest, crack police units like Inspector Maclntyre's get the job of keeping order on the streets. But when a demonstrator dies after a riot, who will the public - and the Police Force itself - hold accountable?

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  • S4E9

    The Temptation of Eileen Hughes

    Apr 3, 1988

    The McAuleys are local celebrities and Eileen Hughes, a young shop assistant, is flattered to be taken under their wing. Then she accepts their invitation to join them for a week's holiday in London ...

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  • Lucky Sunil
    S4E10

    Lucky Sunil

    Apr 17, 1988

    Young, handsome and alone in London at the start of a great career. But will Sunil's luck hold out against the seductions of pretty girls, the wiles of con-men and a hundred temptations of the great city?

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  • S4E11

    Run for the Lifeboat

    Apr 24, 1988

    Problems of a Welsh coastal village where the lifeboat crew is the main focus.

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