Season 1
23 episodes · Sep 21, 1977
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- S1E1
Professional Foul
Sep 21, 197785mProfessor Anderson attends a conference in Prague, but what he really wants to do is attend a football match. Then he meets a former student unexpectedly, and must consider putting his philosophical ideas into practice.
- S1E2
Exiles
Sep 28, 197790mIn the 1920s, Michael Arlen was one of the most popular and acclaimed writers in the world, but he mysteriously stopped writing altogether. His son tries to work out why.
- S1E3
Abie's Will
Oct 5, 1977A once-celebrated writer who has written nothing since the war, lies paralysed and dying as his family gathers at the family home.
- S1E4
The Sinking of HMS Victoria
Oct 12, 1977A dramatisation of events surrounding the loss of the turret ship HMS Victoria during fleet exercises off Tripoli on 22 June 1893.
- S1E5
True Patriot
Oct 19, 197760mA biopic of German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, whose opposition to Adolf Hitler led to his involvement in an assassination plot.
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Shooting the Chandelier
Oct 26, 1977Czechoslovakia, April 1945. A chance meeting between a professor and his former student turns into a violent trial of strength.
- S1E8
Arnhem: The Story of an Escape
Nov 16, 1977Graeme Warrack was Divisional Chief Doctor of the 1st Airborne Division at the Battle of Arnhem in September 1944. With other doctors, medical personnel and padres, he stayed behind with the wounded.
- S1E10
A Visit from Miss Prothero
Jan 11, 197837mArthur Dodsworth has recently retired. He lives alone except for his budgie and memories of his late wife Winnie. One afternoon his nap is interrupted by the doorbell; his former secretary, Peggy Prothero, has come to visit.
- S1E11
Mr. & Mrs. Bureaucrat
Jan 18, 1978Satire set at the Department of Something or Other, where mistakes in form-filling can bring careers to a sudden end.
- S1E12
Foreign Affairs
Jan 25, 1978Moscow is the setting for a reunion between Viktor and Susan which brings about unforeseen complications.
- S1E13
The Dissolution of Marcus Fleischman
Feb 1, 1978Marcus Fleischman's reincarnation proves a frustrating one. His widow, in his absence, leads the simple life of a shopkeeper, and brings up their son as best she can.
- S1E14
The O'Hooligan File
Feb 8, 1978A former teacher takes on the system armed only with pen, paper and stamps.
- S1E15
The Turkey Who Lives on the Hill
Feb 15, 1978Married life starts off full of bright hopes for Alex and Lynda, but soon they are trapped in a nightmare with their friend Bill.
- S1E16
Flayed
Feb 22, 1978A disparate group of guests find themselves locked into a largely empty television studio controlled by an anonymous man.
S1E17She Fell Among Thieves
Mar 1, 197878mFrance, 1924. Two English gentlemen join forces to investigate notorious villainess Vanity Fair in her fortified chateau. Tongue-in-cheek 1978 TV film based on the novel by Dornford Yates.
- S1E18
Stargazy on Zummerdown
Mar 15, 197880mIn the 23rd century, Albion (formerly Britain) is made up of two distinct communities — the Aggros (farm workers) and the Toonies (industrial workers). They meet at Zummerdown for the annual midsummer festival of Stargazy.
- S1E19
Liza
Mar 22, 197880mLavretsky returns to Russia from Europe and joins the group of admirers of his beautiful young cousin Liza.
- S1E20
For Tea on Sunday
Mar 29, 1978Some young women, sharing accommodation, invite their boyfriends for tea on Sunday. But one of them proves to be alarmingly disturbed.
- S1E21
When the Actors Come
May 3, 1978In 19th-century Eastern Europe, a group of actors, led by Janos, arrive at a castle to give the Count and his friends a private performance. But the actors are also revolutionaries, and they have another agenda.
- S1E22
Ice Age
May 17, 1978An unexpected stranger arrives at the old peoples home in Norway where a famous writer is kept in confinement after the war. A young partisan plots his assassination, while others advocate handing him over for trial for collaboration.