Series 1
37 episodes · Jan 11, 1969
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- S1E1
Park People
Jan 11, 1969Young Frank Brady falls in love with a woman he has only seen from a distance. He enlists his friend Peg to help him win the woman's love.
- S1E2
Bangelstein's Boys
Jan 18, 1969A rugby team's annual tour descends into chaos when Tommy and Jack have a fall out with their brother-in-law.
- S1E4
MacNeil
Feb 1, 1969Carpenter and widower MacNeil takes a blunt approach in making advances to lady executive Miss Saville who works in the same firm as himself. His belief in his instincts regarding women is contradicted by his daughter Mary, who knows him better than he thinks.
- S1E7
Tiger Trap in the Street
Feb 22, 1969Fed up with having his car stolen, Williams decides it's time to take the law into his own hands, but there is a price to pay.
- S1E11
Pig in a Poke
Mar 15, 1969An effete television producer and his beautiful wife move into an old terraced house.In the basement is a sitting tenant they cannot move.The tenant starts to invade their life with increasing voracity, leading to him eventually beating up the young wife and then becoming her afternoon lover.
- S1E12
Machine
Mar 22, 1969Two people (one rich, one poor) have failing kidneys, an expensive kidney machine would save them.
- S1E14
The Dirt on Lucy Lane
Apr 5, 1969Michael Vint, an embittered hack reporter from a Sunday newspaper, is sent down into the country to find a story in the love life of an aging has-been writer and his new glamorous young film star wife. The writer is annoyed about the intrusion into his private life, but his wife sees it as an opportunity.
- S1E15
Moonlight on the Highway
Apr 12, 196952mWriting for ITV Saturday Night Theatre (1969), Dennis Potter introduced the notion that popular music expresses the yearning of the human spirit for a better world. A troubled young man, David Peters (Ian Holm), claims, "Once dreams were possible, that's what the popular songs told us." Rejecting rock music of the day, Peters is immersed in the tunes of Thirties crooner Al Bowlly (killed during the London blitz). He collects Bowlly memorabilia, publishes the Bowlly fan-club newsletter, and finds pleasure in lip-synching Bowlly records but his obsession with Bowlly masks certain darker events in his past.
- S1E17
Steve
Apr 26, 1969Steve's maverick personality costs him his teaching job. He drops out of conventional society and earns a living by roguish means. Then he meets Paula, who makes him question his ideals and life.
- S1E26
The Haunting
Jun 28, 1969Young Cathy asks her teacher Kate for help with her father Rolf who is still withdrawn and depressed after his wife's fatal car crash sometime ago. However, the line between fantasy and reality complicates matters.
- S1E29
Every Day of the Life Man
Jul 19, 1969An innocent man is wrongly picked from an identity parade after a factory robbery because he is black.
- S1E30
Salve Regina
Jul 19, 1969In the basement of a department store after the last bomb of World War Three. A bag lady, calls herself ' the queen ' and exercises complete authority over two befuddled men. That is until an astronaut (who was in space when the bomb fell) finds them.
- S1E31
Takeover
Jul 26, 1969Suddenly and inexplicably Mother and Father find that their previously well behaved adolescent sons are completely unmanageable, reversing the standard family dynamics.
- S1E37
Fly Away Home
Aug 23, 1969A couple return from their holiday to find their house burnt down. Having no insurance, the husband has no option but to rebuild it himself with the help of local handyman Arthur. Local council bureaucracy hinders all the way.